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All local companies in Karlsruhe that are in the frontline of IT security have shown up united at the Anti-PRISM-Party www.anti-prism-party.de/programm/programm.html, providing educational contents to protect unauthorized access to citizens’ emails, browser searches and social media interaction. The bottomline answer is encryption.

Geheimschreiber

 

Although the ENIGMA remains the best know German cryptographic machine of World War II, in the early 1940's the German military introduced several new cryptographic teletypewriters known under the name Geheimschreiber - sometimes translated as "private secretary", sometimes as "secret writer".

 

These machines offered on-line encryption and decryption, that is plain test could be typed directly into the machine, automatically converted to encrypted text, and sent directly to the transmitter. In addtion to security, these "secret writers" provided the Germans with the ability to encrypt large volumes of test at high speed.

 

Learning that the Germans had named an early version of these machines SWORDFISH, the British and Americans bestowed nicknames associated with fish on the machines and the communications links in which they were used. The two most famous are TUNNY and STURGEON.

 

Just as they developed the Bombe to assist decryption of ENIGMA , the British developed data processing to attack the fish family of machine ciphers. (I must add: This was a whale of a job!) This led to the construction of the COLOSSUS which British historian F. H. Hinsley is "justly claimed as a pioneer programmable electronic digital computer."

The 40 (SZ40) when first encountered in 1940 was nicknamed TUNNY by the British - after a fish better known to Americans as TUNA.

 

The Schlüsselzusatz SZ40, manufactured by the German firm Lorenz, was used by the German Army for high-level communications, generally between Army groups. It provided on-line encryption and decryption and was capable of handling large volumes f traffic at high speed. The TUNNY depended on wheels for encryption and decryption but unlike ENIGMA it did nut substitute letters but insted encrypted elements of the electrically generated Baudot code used in normal telegraphic transmissions.

 

Source: National Cryptologic Museum 13 February 2009 with some hyperlinks added

 

Link to report on TUNNY

 

A modern day COLLOSSUS

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Star Trek, First Contact (Paramount, 1996).

youtu.be/wxyZQR2d6yw Trailer

 

youtu.be/GTQzusrfCxc?t=3s

Star Trek - 'Beyond First Contact' The Borg - Making The Movie.

 

Starring Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell, Alice Krige, Neal McDonough, Robert Picardo, and Dwight Schultz. Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

 

Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare about his Borg assimilation experience to an incoming message from Admiral Hayes. Hayes informs Picard that Deep Space Five reported that a colony has been destroyed. Completing the Admiral's sentence, Picard realizes who destroyed the colony — the Borg.

 

Picard calls a meeting and informs his senior officers that their ship has been instructed to patrol the Neutral Zone. Their orders are to protect the area from any possible Romulan uprising during a Borg attack. Despite protests from his officers, Picard remains faithful to his orders and the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-E begins to patrol the area. Later, Picard regretfully tells Riker that it is his own fault they are stuck in the Neutral Zone. Starfleet believes Picard to be too emotionally involved with the Borg because of his previous assimilation to tactically complete a mission against them.

 

The men return to the bridge to learn that Starfleet has engaged in combat with the Borg. Intercepting messages between the starships, the crew learns that the Federation is losing. Picard, with his Borg experience, knows he can help the fleet. He informs his staff that he will make a decision directly in opposition to Starfleet commands. With no objections from his crew, Captain Picard gives the order and the starship Enterprise sets a course for Earth and the attacking Borg cube.

 

A massive battle ensues and it appears that the Federation will lose the fight. Despite serious structural damage to the Borg cube, their strength does not weaken. Even the U.S.S. Defiant, commanded by Worf, does not appear to be able to turn the tides of the battle. As the starship Defiant is about to ram the Borg ship on a suicide run, the U.S.S. Enterprise beams aboard its crew, including Worf. Picard, having an inside perspective of the Borg and their vessel, focuses the firepower of the fleet on coordinates he knows to be critical. Just as the main ship is destroyed, a spherical escape pod flies out. The sphere creates a temporal vortex, catching the starship Enterprise in its wake. Immune to the paradoxes created by the time travel, the starship's crew learns that Earth at the present time appears to be inhabited entirely by the Borg. The commanding officers realize that the Borg have gone into the past and assimilated Earth, so they follow them back in time to repair the damage the Borg have done.

 

On Earth, over three centuries earlier, a somber Lily Sloane accompanies a stumbling, drunk Zefram Cochrane out of a bar after a night of revelry. Then, Lily notices a fast moving light. She hardly has time to ask what the object is, when the Borg vessel attacks. Back aboard the Enterprise, Picard demands that Data tell him the exact date and location the Borg ship is attacking. The location: central Montana. The date: April 4, 2063 — the day before First Contact. Realizing that the Borg have come to prevent first contact between alien life forms and humans, the crew knows they must stop the Borg and facilitate this exchange. They destroy the Borg sphere, and Dr. Crusher, Captain Picard, Commander Data, Commander Riker, Counselor Troi and other U.S.S. Enterprise crew transport down to Earth to survey the damage.

 

At the Borg attack site in Montana, the crew finds destruction and chaos. They split into groups to search for Cochrane. Data and Picard hunt for Cochrane's warp ship, the Phoenix. There they encounter a very angry and confused Lily, who believes Data and Picard to be members of a coalition that broke the cease-fire after World War III. She shoots at them in a rage, but impervious to bullets, Data approaches Lily. Overcome by fear and radiation, she falls to the ground. Dr. Crusher diagnoses Lily with radiation sickness caused by the damaged Phoenix, and inoculates the entire crew. Against Picard's better judgment, Crusher takes Lily to sickbay. Geordi is called to help repair the warp vessel and Picard becomes intrigued by its historical significance. In this vessel began the future as the world would know it, and the past as Picard remembers it. He reaches out to touch the ship. Data, curious about the human need for tactile reinforcement, attempts to create the same feelings he observes in Picard, but is unsuccessful in duplicating this aspect of humanity.

 

Aboard the ship, two crewmembers are sent to examine unexplained maintenance problems, and both disappear. Picard is called to the ship and discovers that the survivors from the Borg sphere have transported onto the ship and are taking over Deck 16. While Picard arranges teams to fight them, the Borg manipulate the climate of the deck to suit their needs and begin to spread throughout the ship. When the Borg attack sickbay, Crusher, her staff, and Lily escape through a Jeffries tube, thanks to a distraction by the ship's Emergency Medical Hologram. While Crusher leads the group down the passageway, Lily steals away in a different direction.

 

On Earth, Riker finds Troi and Cochrane drunk in a bar. Troi justifies that the only way she could get Cochrane to talk to her was by shooting Tequila with him. Denying her drunken state, Troi offers her professional opinion on Cochrane. She explains, "He's nuts."

 

Picard and his team are tracking the Borg through the starship. As Crusher and her staff find Worf's team, Picard's team encounters the Borg, who have begun to assimilate U.S.S. Enterprise crewmembers. Worf's team engages the Borg in combat, but the enemies adapt to the crew's weapons too quickly to make any difference. The teams are ordered to regroup on Deck 15, but Data is captured. Picard cannot save him, so he quickly crawls into a Jeffries tube to escape. Face to face with Picard, Lily steals his phaser and demands an explanation and escape route. Picard agrees.

 

Geordi shows Cochrane the starship Enterprise through a large telescope on Earth and tries to convince him to launch his vessel the next morning. Geordi glorifies Cochrane by explaining that his ship will make first contact with alien life forms. Humanity will be saved if Cochrane launches his ship. Still drunk, Cochrane agrees.

 

Aboard the ship, the Borg Queen introduces herself to a bound Data, claiming that she is the Collective. Reactivating Data's emotion chip, the Borg begin to graph organic, human skin onto the android's arm. As Data is overcome by this new human sensation of touch, something he never thought possible, the Borg continue their work.

 

Lily and Picard wander through the service deck as the captain attempts to explain what has happened between Lily's time and his own. She begins to calm down until they suddenly run into a Borg-infested area. Quickly escaping in the Holodeck, Picard activates a Dixon Hill program. At a dance, he and Lily try to blend in without being noticed by the Borg. Following the Holodeck's story, Picard searches for Nicky the Nose and takes his machine gun. Killing the Borg with the gun, Picard retrieves the memory chip that contains all of the information the Borg has received. Lily then notices that the two dead Borg were once crewmembers of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

 

Back on Earth, Cochrane keeps hearing what an amazing historical figure he is and begins to question whether or not he wants to go through with the launch. He doubts his own nobility and flees the launch site. Geordi and Riker attempt to catch up with Cochrane in the woods and are forced to stun him with a phaser to return him to the Phoenix.

 

Lily and Picard join the rest of the surviving crew and discover that the Borg are outside of the ship. The retrieved memory chip reveals that they are reconfiguring the main deflector in order to contact the Borg of this century, calling them to Earth to assimilate the planet. Picard, Worf and Lieutenant Hawk put on space suits and venture onto the surface of the starship to stop the Borg.

 

Aware of Data's desire to become human, the Borg Queen offers him the chance to be entirely covered in human flesh and join the Borg, in an attempt to get the encryption codes from Data so she can obtain total control over the U.S.S. Enterprise. Outside the Enterprise, Hawk, Worf and Picard attempt to unlock the deflector dish. Attacked by a Borg, Worf's suit begins to depressurize. Two Borg are killed and Hawk is attacked. As the dish is released, a now-assimilated Hawk attempts to kill Picard. Worf saves the captain, but Hawk is killed. Picard and Worf then destroy the free-floating deflector dish.

 

On Earth, Cochrane explains to Riker that his only motivation for inventing warp travel was money. He never expected to save mankind, become a hero, or be instrumental in the founding of a new civilization. He simply wanted to retire in peace.

 

An argument ensues aboard the Enterprise as the majority of the senior officers believe that they should evacuate the ship, destroying it and the Borg. Picard won't give up, and insists they stay. Challenged by Worf, Picard orders him off the Bridge. Lily follows Picard into his ready room and demands that he explain his obsession with fighting the Borg. Picard declares he won't sacrifice the starship, and swears to finally make the Borg pay for all they've done. Lily quietly and calmly compares Picard to Captain Ahab, forever fighting his white whale — the Borg. Realizing that this fight could only destroy himself and his crew, Picard decides to evacuate the ship. Worf, Picard and Crusher activate the ship's self-destruct sequence. The countdown begins, and the crew leaves in escape pods. Picard surveys his ship and prepares to leave when he hears Data calling him.

 

Meanwhile , the earth-bound crew and Cochrane begin takeoff. Cochrane, Geordi and Riker take off in the Phoenix, and with music blaring, the three men launch successfully into orbit.

 

On the ship, Lily and Picard say good-bye and the captain goes to save Data. Entering Engineering, Picard confronts the Borg Queen, whom he knows from his experience with the Borg. The queen reminds Picard that it was not enough that he was assimilated, but that he needed to give himself freely to the Borg — she wished him to stand by her side as an equal to further the power of the Collective. Picard offers himself in exchange for Data, but the android does not comply. He refuses to leave, and at the queen's command, disarms the self-destruct sequence. He quickly enters the encryption codes, offering full control of the Enterprise to the Borg.

 

As Cochrane's ship nears warp, Data arms the U.S.S Enterprise's weapons and aims them at the defenseless Phoenix. At the Borg Queen's order, Data fires, but the missiles fail to hit the Phoenix. His deception of the Borg complete, Data smashes a conduit, releasing a gas that floods engineering, killing all organic material. As the Borg are destroyed, Picard climbs to safety and the Borg Queen falls into the deadly gas. With the Borg threat gone, Cochrane safely completes humanity's first warp flight.

 

Celebrating the flight back on Earth that night, Cochrane and the Enterprise crew see an alien ship land nearby. The doors open, and Zefram Cochrane makes Earth's first contact with an alien race — the Vulcans. Picard and his crew beam out, having witnessed this historic event, and the U.S.S Enterprise NCC 1701-E returns to the 24th century.

 

Vera Wilde, artist-in-residence at Hack42. Because Art & Science!

 

Hackerspace Hack42 is proudly hosting a new artist-in-residence. Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci) is a (former) Harvard Kennedy School researcher. She is working on re-branding the Dark-Web to the EDTR-web, a place for Expressing, Dissenting, Teaching and Resisting.

The EDTR-web is using technologies like TOR and encrypted communications tools to create a place of freedom where centralised power cannot reach.

Vera will be using arts (oil painting and songwriting) as well as writing and political science methods to define and develop the EDTR-web as a social space and technological phenomenon.

 

Vera's third photo-shoot, in which we get to play with some theatrical props and explore extreme opposites.

 

Special thanks go to Moem for mixing up a batch of red paint and for producing the mad-mad-mad bloody special FX on the baseball-bat.

Star Trek, First Contact (Paramount, 1996).

youtu.be/wxyZQR2d6yw Trailer

 

youtu.be/GTQzusrfCxc?t=3s

Star Trek - 'Beyond First Contact' The Borg - Making The Movie.

 

Starring Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell, Alice Krige, Neal McDonough, Robert Picardo, and Dwight Schultz. Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

 

Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare about his Borg assimilation experience to an incoming message from Admiral Hayes. Hayes informs Picard that Deep Space Five reported that a colony has been destroyed. Completing the Admiral's sentence, Picard realizes who destroyed the colony — the Borg.

 

Picard calls a meeting and informs his senior officers that their ship has been instructed to patrol the Neutral Zone. Their orders are to protect the area from any possible Romulan uprising during a Borg attack. Despite protests from his officers, Picard remains faithful to his orders and the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-E begins to patrol the area. Later, Picard regretfully tells Riker that it is his own fault they are stuck in the Neutral Zone. Starfleet believes Picard to be too emotionally involved with the Borg because of his previous assimilation to tactically complete a mission against them.

 

The men return to the bridge to learn that Starfleet has engaged in combat with the Borg. Intercepting messages between the starships, the crew learns that the Federation is losing. Picard, with his Borg experience, knows he can help the fleet. He informs his staff that he will make a decision directly in opposition to Starfleet commands. With no objections from his crew, Captain Picard gives the order and the starship Enterprise sets a course for Earth and the attacking Borg cube.

 

A massive battle ensues and it appears that the Federation will lose the fight. Despite serious structural damage to the Borg cube, their strength does not weaken. Even the U.S.S. Defiant, commanded by Worf, does not appear to be able to turn the tides of the battle. As the starship Defiant is about to ram the Borg ship on a suicide run, the U.S.S. Enterprise beams aboard its crew, including Worf. Picard, having an inside perspective of the Borg and their vessel, focuses the firepower of the fleet on coordinates he knows to be critical. Just as the main ship is destroyed, a spherical escape pod flies out. The sphere creates a temporal vortex, catching the starship Enterprise in its wake. Immune to the paradoxes created by the time travel, the starship's crew learns that Earth at the present time appears to be inhabited entirely by the Borg. The commanding officers realize that the Borg have gone into the past and assimilated Earth, so they follow them back in time to repair the damage the Borg have done.

 

On Earth, over three centuries earlier, a somber Lily Sloane accompanies a stumbling, drunk Zefram Cochrane out of a bar after a night of revelry. Then, Lily notices a fast moving light. She hardly has time to ask what the object is, when the Borg vessel attacks. Back aboard the Enterprise, Picard demands that Data tell him the exact date and location the Borg ship is attacking. The location: central Montana. The date: April 4, 2063 — the day before First Contact. Realizing that the Borg have come to prevent first contact between alien life forms and humans, the crew knows they must stop the Borg and facilitate this exchange. They destroy the Borg sphere, and Dr. Crusher, Captain Picard, Commander Data, Commander Riker, Counselor Troi and other U.S.S. Enterprise crew transport down to Earth to survey the damage.

 

At the Borg attack site in Montana, the crew finds destruction and chaos. They split into groups to search for Cochrane. Data and Picard hunt for Cochrane's warp ship, the Phoenix. There they encounter a very angry and confused Lily, who believes Data and Picard to be members of a coalition that broke the cease-fire after World War III. She shoots at them in a rage, but impervious to bullets, Data approaches Lily. Overcome by fear and radiation, she falls to the ground. Dr. Crusher diagnoses Lily with radiation sickness caused by the damaged Phoenix, and inoculates the entire crew. Against Picard's better judgment, Crusher takes Lily to sickbay. Geordi is called to help repair the warp vessel and Picard becomes intrigued by its historical significance. In this vessel began the future as the world would know it, and the past as Picard remembers it. He reaches out to touch the ship. Data, curious about the human need for tactile reinforcement, attempts to create the same feelings he observes in Picard, but is unsuccessful in duplicating this aspect of humanity.

 

Aboard the ship, two crewmembers are sent to examine unexplained maintenance problems, and both disappear. Picard is called to the ship and discovers that the survivors from the Borg sphere have transported onto the ship and are taking over Deck 16. While Picard arranges teams to fight them, the Borg manipulate the climate of the deck to suit their needs and begin to spread throughout the ship. When the Borg attack sickbay, Crusher, her staff, and Lily escape through a Jeffries tube, thanks to a distraction by the ship's Emergency Medical Hologram. While Crusher leads the group down the passageway, Lily steals away in a different direction.

 

On Earth, Riker finds Troi and Cochrane drunk in a bar. Troi justifies that the only way she could get Cochrane to talk to her was by shooting Tequila with him. Denying her drunken state, Troi offers her professional opinion on Cochrane. She explains, "He's nuts."

 

Picard and his team are tracking the Borg through the starship. As Crusher and her staff find Worf's team, Picard's team encounters the Borg, who have begun to assimilate U.S.S. Enterprise crewmembers. Worf's team engages the Borg in combat, but the enemies adapt to the crew's weapons too quickly to make any difference. The teams are ordered to regroup on Deck 15, but Data is captured. Picard cannot save him, so he quickly crawls into a Jeffries tube to escape. Face to face with Picard, Lily steals his phaser and demands an explanation and escape route. Picard agrees.

 

Geordi shows Cochrane the starship Enterprise through a large telescope on Earth and tries to convince him to launch his vessel the next morning. Geordi glorifies Cochrane by explaining that his ship will make first contact with alien life forms. Humanity will be saved if Cochrane launches his ship. Still drunk, Cochrane agrees.

 

Aboard the ship, the Borg Queen introduces herself to a bound Data, claiming that she is the Collective. Reactivating Data's emotion chip, the Borg begin to graph organic, human skin onto the android's arm. As Data is overcome by this new human sensation of touch, something he never thought possible, the Borg continue their work.

 

Lily and Picard wander through the service deck as the captain attempts to explain what has happened between Lily's time and his own. She begins to calm down until they suddenly run into a Borg-infested area. Quickly escaping in the Holodeck, Picard activates a Dixon Hill program. At a dance, he and Lily try to blend in without being noticed by the Borg. Following the Holodeck's story, Picard searches for Nicky the Nose and takes his machine gun. Killing the Borg with the gun, Picard retrieves the memory chip that contains all of the information the Borg has received. Lily then notices that the two dead Borg were once crewmembers of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

 

Back on Earth, Cochrane keeps hearing what an amazing historical figure he is and begins to question whether or not he wants to go through with the launch. He doubts his own nobility and flees the launch site. Geordi and Riker attempt to catch up with Cochrane in the woods and are forced to stun him with a phaser to return him to the Phoenix.

 

Lily and Picard join the rest of the surviving crew and discover that the Borg are outside of the ship. The retrieved memory chip reveals that they are reconfiguring the main deflector in order to contact the Borg of this century, calling them to Earth to assimilate the planet. Picard, Worf and Lieutenant Hawk put on space suits and venture onto the surface of the starship to stop the Borg.

 

Aware of Data's desire to become human, the Borg Queen offers him the chance to be entirely covered in human flesh and join the Borg, in an attempt to get the encryption codes from Data so she can obtain total control over the U.S.S. Enterprise. Outside the Enterprise, Hawk, Worf and Picard attempt to unlock the deflector dish. Attacked by a Borg, Worf's suit begins to depressurize. Two Borg are killed and Hawk is attacked. As the dish is released, a now-assimilated Hawk attempts to kill Picard. Worf saves the captain, but Hawk is killed. Picard and Worf then destroy the free-floating deflector dish.

 

On Earth, Cochrane explains to Riker that his only motivation for inventing warp travel was money. He never expected to save mankind, become a hero, or be instrumental in the founding of a new civilization. He simply wanted to retire in peace.

 

An argument ensues aboard the Enterprise as the majority of the senior officers believe that they should evacuate the ship, destroying it and the Borg. Picard won't give up, and insists they stay. Challenged by Worf, Picard orders him off the Bridge. Lily follows Picard into his ready room and demands that he explain his obsession with fighting the Borg. Picard declares he won't sacrifice the starship, and swears to finally make the Borg pay for all they've done. Lily quietly and calmly compares Picard to Captain Ahab, forever fighting his white whale — the Borg. Realizing that this fight could only destroy himself and his crew, Picard decides to evacuate the ship. Worf, Picard and Crusher activate the ship's self-destruct sequence. The countdown begins, and the crew leaves in escape pods. Picard surveys his ship and prepares to leave when he hears Data calling him.

 

Meanwhile , the earth-bound crew and Cochrane begin takeoff. Cochrane, Geordi and Riker take off in the Phoenix, and with music blaring, the three men launch successfully into orbit.

 

On the ship, Lily and Picard say good-bye and the captain goes to save Data. Entering Engineering, Picard confronts the Borg Queen, whom he knows from his experience with the Borg. The queen reminds Picard that it was not enough that he was assimilated, but that he needed to give himself freely to the Borg — she wished him to stand by her side as an equal to further the power of the Collective. Picard offers himself in exchange for Data, but the android does not comply. He refuses to leave, and at the queen's command, disarms the self-destruct sequence. He quickly enters the encryption codes, offering full control of the Enterprise to the Borg.

 

As Cochrane's ship nears warp, Data arms the U.S.S Enterprise's weapons and aims them at the defenseless Phoenix. At the Borg Queen's order, Data fires, but the missiles fail to hit the Phoenix. His deception of the Borg complete, Data smashes a conduit, releasing a gas that floods engineering, killing all organic material. As the Borg are destroyed, Picard climbs to safety and the Borg Queen falls into the deadly gas. With the Borg threat gone, Cochrane safely completes humanity's first warp flight.

 

Celebrating the flight back on Earth that night, Cochrane and the Enterprise crew see an alien ship land nearby. The doors open, and Zefram Cochrane makes Earth's first contact with an alien race — the Vulcans. Picard and his crew beam out, having witnessed this historic event, and the U.S.S Enterprise NCC 1701-E returns to the 24th century.

 

Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.

 

Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.

Example of a Linux 'shadow file' that contains the encrypted passwords for the users.

Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau works for the benefit of cipherspace. Cipherspace is the state of crypto anarchy. This means that your identity is anonymous as long as you stay protected. There are no identities or authorities in cipherspace, and it is not possible to enforce laws where there is no identity, or where there are no authorities.

 

Today there are several threats to the inhabitants of the internet. The politicians of oppressive regimes in the east and in the west, in north and south, are imposing surveillance. Surveillance of the entire networks. What people say to each other, what information is transmitted between bots and humans alike.

 

This aggression must be met with the strongest encryption algorithms available to modern computers. With onion and garlic routing it is possible to erect the fractal cipherspace. With distributed hash tables it is possible to create networks that has no central node. There is no one that controls the fractal cipherspace. Internet as we know it, turns into darknet.

 

Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau recommends that you use the following software: i2p, for anonymous and secure communications, Gnu Privacy Guard, for direct and verified communication. The onion router, TOR, to access the internets.

 

Telecomix Munitions is a defense bureau.

 

You can change the future of the internets by joining us in defending the networks and creating cipherspace.

 

You can help defending yourself and your friends, yes, all inhabitants of the networks.

 

By learning a few skills you can take control over technology.

 

Telecomix munitions are currently developing and promoting advanced security devices, which can endure even the harshest forms of government or corporation surveillance.

 

Your personal computer is an encryption device. Modern hardware can transform plain text to ciphertext with ease. So rapidly you barely notice the difference between unencrypted and encrypted data.

 

The laws of mathematics are infinitely stronger than the laws of nations and corporations, as the human laws are really only ink on paper. The laws of mathematics, on the other hand, are the laws that define our very universe. With the use of modern crypto algorithms we can use this fact to defend free speech and the integrity of both bots and humans. Information is nothing but numbers, numbers governed not by human laws, but by the laws of mathematics.

 

Networks that utilize the power of cryptography already exist. It will not be possible to stop the spread of the fractal cipherspace.

 

To find out more, come to telecomix.org or visit us in cipherspace on telecomix.i2p.

Feel free to visit my works on Deviant Art: xp0s3.deviantart.com/

Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau works for the benefit of cipherspace. Cipherspace is the state of crypto anarchy. This means that your identity is anonymous as long as you stay protected. There are no identities or authorities in cipherspace, and it is not possible to enforce laws where there is no identity, or where there are no authorities.

 

Today there are several threats to the inhabitants of the internet. The politicians of oppressive regimes in the east and in the west, in north and south, are imposing surveillance. Surveillance of the entire networks. What people say to each other, what information is transmitted between bots and humans alike.

 

This aggression must be met with the strongest encryption algorithms available to modern computers. With onion and garlic routing it is possible to erect the fractal cipherspace. With distributed hash tables it is possible to create networks that has no central node. There is no one that controls the fractal cipherspace. Internet as we know it, turns into darknet.

 

Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau recommends that you use the following software: i2p, for anonymous and secure communications, Gnu Privacy Guard, for direct and verified communication. The onion router, TOR, to access the internets.

 

Telecomix Munitions is a defense bureau.

 

You can change the future of the internets by joining us in defending the networks and creating cipherspace.

 

You can help defending yourself and your friends, yes, all inhabitants of the networks.

 

By learning a few skills you can take control over technology.

 

Telecomix munitions are currently developing and promoting advanced security devices, which can endure even the harshest forms of government or corporation surveillance.

 

Your personal computer is an encryption device. Modern hardware can transform plain text to ciphertext with ease. So rapidly you barely notice the difference between unencrypted and encrypted data.

 

The laws of mathematics are infinitely stronger than the laws of nations and corporations, as the human laws are really only ink on paper. The laws of mathematics, on the other hand, are the laws that define our very universe. With the use of modern crypto algorithms we can use this fact to defend free speech and the integrity of both bots and humans. Information is nothing but numbers, numbers governed not by human laws, but by the laws of mathematics.

 

Networks that utilize the power of cryptography already exist. It will not be possible to stop the spread of the fractal cipherspace.

 

To find out more, come to telecomix.org or visit us in cipherspace on telecomix.i2p.

Feel free to visit my works on Deviant Art: xp0s3.deviantart.com/

Cards and padlock

 

online banking, credit card transactions, trading, protection, fraud, identity theft, etc.

Vera Wilde, artist-in-residence at Hack42. Because Art & Science!

 

Hackerspace Hack42 is proudly hosting a new artist-in-residence. Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci) is a (former) Harvard Kennedy School researcher. She is working on re-branding the Dark-Web to the EDTR-web, a place for Expressing, Dissenting, Teaching and Resisting.

The EDTR-web is using technologies like TOR and encrypted communications tools to create a place of freedom where centralised power cannot reach.

Vera will be using arts (oil painting and songwriting) as well as writing and political science methods to define and develop the EDTR-web as a social space and technological phenomenon.

 

Vera's third photo-shoot, in which we get to play with some theatrical props and explore extreme opposites.

Star Trek, First Contact (Paramount, 1996).

youtu.be/wxyZQR2d6yw Trailer

 

youtu.be/GTQzusrfCxc?t=3s

Star Trek - 'Beyond First Contact' The Borg - Making The Movie.

 

Starring Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell, Alice Krige, Neal McDonough, Robert Picardo, and Dwight Schultz. Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

 

Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare about his Borg assimilation experience to an incoming message from Admiral Hayes. Hayes informs Picard that Deep Space Five reported that a colony has been destroyed. Completing the Admiral's sentence, Picard realizes who destroyed the colony — the Borg.

 

Picard calls a meeting and informs his senior officers that their ship has been instructed to patrol the Neutral Zone. Their orders are to protect the area from any possible Romulan uprising during a Borg attack. Despite protests from his officers, Picard remains faithful to his orders and the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-E begins to patrol the area. Later, Picard regretfully tells Riker that it is his own fault they are stuck in the Neutral Zone. Starfleet believes Picard to be too emotionally involved with the Borg because of his previous assimilation to tactically complete a mission against them.

 

The men return to the bridge to learn that Starfleet has engaged in combat with the Borg. Intercepting messages between the starships, the crew learns that the Federation is losing. Picard, with his Borg experience, knows he can help the fleet. He informs his staff that he will make a decision directly in opposition to Starfleet commands. With no objections from his crew, Captain Picard gives the order and the starship Enterprise sets a course for Earth and the attacking Borg cube.

 

A massive battle ensues and it appears that the Federation will lose the fight. Despite serious structural damage to the Borg cube, their strength does not weaken. Even the U.S.S. Defiant, commanded by Worf, does not appear to be able to turn the tides of the battle. As the starship Defiant is about to ram the Borg ship on a suicide run, the U.S.S. Enterprise beams aboard its crew, including Worf. Picard, having an inside perspective of the Borg and their vessel, focuses the firepower of the fleet on coordinates he knows to be critical. Just as the main ship is destroyed, a spherical escape pod flies out. The sphere creates a temporal vortex, catching the starship Enterprise in its wake. Immune to the paradoxes created by the time travel, the starship's crew learns that Earth at the present time appears to be inhabited entirely by the Borg. The commanding officers realize that the Borg have gone into the past and assimilated Earth, so they follow them back in time to repair the damage the Borg have done.

 

On Earth, over three centuries earlier, a somber Lily Sloane accompanies a stumbling, drunk Zefram Cochrane out of a bar after a night of revelry. Then, Lily notices a fast moving light. She hardly has time to ask what the object is, when the Borg vessel attacks. Back aboard the Enterprise, Picard demands that Data tell him the exact date and location the Borg ship is attacking. The location: central Montana. The date: April 4, 2063 — the day before First Contact. Realizing that the Borg have come to prevent first contact between alien life forms and humans, the crew knows they must stop the Borg and facilitate this exchange. They destroy the Borg sphere, and Dr. Crusher, Captain Picard, Commander Data, Commander Riker, Counselor Troi and other U.S.S. Enterprise crew transport down to Earth to survey the damage.

 

At the Borg attack site in Montana, the crew finds destruction and chaos. They split into groups to search for Cochrane. Data and Picard hunt for Cochrane's warp ship, the Phoenix. There they encounter a very angry and confused Lily, who believes Data and Picard to be members of a coalition that broke the cease-fire after World War III. She shoots at them in a rage, but impervious to bullets, Data approaches Lily. Overcome by fear and radiation, she falls to the ground. Dr. Crusher diagnoses Lily with radiation sickness caused by the damaged Phoenix, and inoculates the entire crew. Against Picard's better judgment, Crusher takes Lily to sickbay. Geordi is called to help repair the warp vessel and Picard becomes intrigued by its historical significance. In this vessel began the future as the world would know it, and the past as Picard remembers it. He reaches out to touch the ship. Data, curious about the human need for tactile reinforcement, attempts to create the same feelings he observes in Picard, but is unsuccessful in duplicating this aspect of humanity.

 

Aboard the ship, two crewmembers are sent to examine unexplained maintenance problems, and both disappear. Picard is called to the ship and discovers that the survivors from the Borg sphere have transported onto the ship and are taking over Deck 16. While Picard arranges teams to fight them, the Borg manipulate the climate of the deck to suit their needs and begin to spread throughout the ship. When the Borg attack sickbay, Crusher, her staff, and Lily escape through a Jeffries tube, thanks to a distraction by the ship's Emergency Medical Hologram. While Crusher leads the group down the passageway, Lily steals away in a different direction.

 

On Earth, Riker finds Troi and Cochrane drunk in a bar. Troi justifies that the only way she could get Cochrane to talk to her was by shooting Tequila with him. Denying her drunken state, Troi offers her professional opinion on Cochrane. She explains, "He's nuts."

 

Picard and his team are tracking the Borg through the starship. As Crusher and her staff find Worf's team, Picard's team encounters the Borg, who have begun to assimilate U.S.S. Enterprise crewmembers. Worf's team engages the Borg in combat, but the enemies adapt to the crew's weapons too quickly to make any difference. The teams are ordered to regroup on Deck 15, but Data is captured. Picard cannot save him, so he quickly crawls into a Jeffries tube to escape. Face to face with Picard, Lily steals his phaser and demands an explanation and escape route. Picard agrees.

 

Geordi shows Cochrane the starship Enterprise through a large telescope on Earth and tries to convince him to launch his vessel the next morning. Geordi glorifies Cochrane by explaining that his ship will make first contact with alien life forms. Humanity will be saved if Cochrane launches his ship. Still drunk, Cochrane agrees.

 

Aboard the ship, the Borg Queen introduces herself to a bound Data, claiming that she is the Collective. Reactivating Data's emotion chip, the Borg begin to graph organic, human skin onto the android's arm. As Data is overcome by this new human sensation of touch, something he never thought possible, the Borg continue their work.

 

Lily and Picard wander through the service deck as the captain attempts to explain what has happened between Lily's time and his own. She begins to calm down until they suddenly run into a Borg-infested area. Quickly escaping in the Holodeck, Picard activates a Dixon Hill program. At a dance, he and Lily try to blend in without being noticed by the Borg. Following the Holodeck's story, Picard searches for Nicky the Nose and takes his machine gun. Killing the Borg with the gun, Picard retrieves the memory chip that contains all of the information the Borg has received. Lily then notices that the two dead Borg were once crewmembers of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

 

Back on Earth, Cochrane keeps hearing what an amazing historical figure he is and begins to question whether or not he wants to go through with the launch. He doubts his own nobility and flees the launch site. Geordi and Riker attempt to catch up with Cochrane in the woods and are forced to stun him with a phaser to return him to the Phoenix.

 

Lily and Picard join the rest of the surviving crew and discover that the Borg are outside of the ship. The retrieved memory chip reveals that they are reconfiguring the main deflector in order to contact the Borg of this century, calling them to Earth to assimilate the planet. Picard, Worf and Lieutenant Hawk put on space suits and venture onto the surface of the starship to stop the Borg.

 

Aware of Data's desire to become human, the Borg Queen offers him the chance to be entirely covered in human flesh and join the Borg, in an attempt to get the encryption codes from Data so she can obtain total control over the U.S.S. Enterprise. Outside the Enterprise, Hawk, Worf and Picard attempt to unlock the deflector dish. Attacked by a Borg, Worf's suit begins to depressurize. Two Borg are killed and Hawk is attacked. As the dish is released, a now-assimilated Hawk attempts to kill Picard. Worf saves the captain, but Hawk is killed. Picard and Worf then destroy the free-floating deflector dish.

 

On Earth, Cochrane explains to Riker that his only motivation for inventing warp travel was money. He never expected to save mankind, become a hero, or be instrumental in the founding of a new civilization. He simply wanted to retire in peace.

 

An argument ensues aboard the Enterprise as the majority of the senior officers believe that they should evacuate the ship, destroying it and the Borg. Picard won't give up, and insists they stay. Challenged by Worf, Picard orders him off the Bridge. Lily follows Picard into his ready room and demands that he explain his obsession with fighting the Borg. Picard declares he won't sacrifice the starship, and swears to finally make the Borg pay for all they've done. Lily quietly and calmly compares Picard to Captain Ahab, forever fighting his white whale — the Borg. Realizing that this fight could only destroy himself and his crew, Picard decides to evacuate the ship. Worf, Picard and Crusher activate the ship's self-destruct sequence. The countdown begins, and the crew leaves in escape pods. Picard surveys his ship and prepares to leave when he hears Data calling him.

 

Meanwhile , the earth-bound crew and Cochrane begin takeoff. Cochrane, Geordi and Riker take off in the Phoenix, and with music blaring, the three men launch successfully into orbit.

 

On the ship, Lily and Picard say good-bye and the captain goes to save Data. Entering Engineering, Picard confronts the Borg Queen, whom he knows from his experience with the Borg. The queen reminds Picard that it was not enough that he was assimilated, but that he needed to give himself freely to the Borg — she wished him to stand by her side as an equal to further the power of the Collective. Picard offers himself in exchange for Data, but the android does not comply. He refuses to leave, and at the queen's command, disarms the self-destruct sequence. He quickly enters the encryption codes, offering full control of the Enterprise to the Borg.

 

As Cochrane's ship nears warp, Data arms the U.S.S Enterprise's weapons and aims them at the defenseless Phoenix. At the Borg Queen's order, Data fires, but the missiles fail to hit the Phoenix. His deception of the Borg complete, Data smashes a conduit, releasing a gas that floods engineering, killing all organic material. As the Borg are destroyed, Picard climbs to safety and the Borg Queen falls into the deadly gas. With the Borg threat gone, Cochrane safely completes humanity's first warp flight.

 

Celebrating the flight back on Earth that night, Cochrane and the Enterprise crew see an alien ship land nearby. The doors open, and Zefram Cochrane makes Earth's first contact with an alien race — the Vulcans. Picard and his crew beam out, having witnessed this historic event, and the U.S.S Enterprise NCC 1701-E returns to the 24th century.

 

To safeguard the security of photos, videos, group chats and voice calls as well as the text messages sent by its billion users around the globe, a powerful form of encryption is now being used by Whatsapp.

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Name: Chigaru Bomani

 

Runner name: Anubian and HH

 

Apparent Age/True Age: 28

 

Gender: Male

 

Profession: Combat Decker

   

~ Appearance ~

 

Height: 5’10”

 

Weight: 157

 

Eyes: Brownish gold

 

Hair Color: Raven black

 

Hair Style: Cropped short

 

Complexion: Slightly pale

 

Build: lithe

 

Scars: None visible

 

Distinguishing Features: Funded by his numerous illegal jobs of hacking into some of the world's most protected companies, Anubian has been able to construct a mobile and armored computer. The physical armor that he wears is shaped in the image of the Egyptian god Anubis. The armor holds his computer and various cyberware.

 

~ Attributes ~ (12 additional dots)

 

Intelligence ***

Wits ***

Resolve **

 

Strength *

Dexterity **

Stamina **

 

Presence **

Manipulation ***

Composure ***

  

~ Skills ~ (22 dots)

 

Academics**

Computer****

Crafts

Investigation**

Medicine

Occult

Politics*

Science

 

Athletics**

Brawl

Drive

Firearms

Larceny*

Stealth**

Survival**

Weaponry*

 

Animal Ken

Empathy

Expression

Intimidation

Persuasion**

Socialize*

Streetwise**

Subterfuge

  

~ Possessions ~

 

Weapons: Sawed off shotgun

Armor: See the Garb of Anubis

Cybernetics: Chigaru possesses two, four slotted datajacks in the back of his head. Using these jacks, he is able to insert Data cards and memstick into his head to access or store information upon them.

 

Important Items: Garb of Anubis (See Below for specifics): this specialized mechanical suit that Chigaru has constructed and paid for through various legal and illegal activities. The Garb is actually an armor plated, mobile computer that covers the majority of his body. With the technological goodies he has purchased from both worlds, it has become the hacker’s wet dream given form. The armor can absorb only a few shots but protection was only a minor concern. The computer is always being updated with new hardware and software. No computer system can last long under its assault

 

Vehicles:

  

~ Self ~

 

Personality: Diligent when it comes to hacking but tends to be rather care free in nature.

History: History: There isn't much to say about Chigaru Bomani. Born into a well to do Rakshasain family, he never wanted for anything. Though there was a cost to the blessing of wealth, his parents were never around. To pass the time, Chiggy turned towards the computer and the internet. In time, the young man’s knowledge of computers, how they work and how to build one then as time went on, it became his only passion.

 

Using the sizeable ‘allowance’ that he received from his parents, Chiggy was always buying the newest and strongest upgrades that he could get his hands upon. His introduction into becoming a hacker stemmed from the computer games he used to play online. To put it frankly, he sucked at them until he was struck the idea of trying to change the game itself. Searching through hundreds of websites, he learned how to tweak the games to give him an advantage.

 

During his searching, he stumbled upon a website for wannabe hackers. The site enticed him and he gave it shot. Starting off small, he worked on using a modified palm to getting free drinks form soda machines. As the months went by and his skills increased, he started withdrawing money from atms and putting the funds on a cashcard. The excitement of hacking was addictive and while he stole money at times, it wasn’t because he needed the funds but due to the challenge of not getting caught.

 

Years passed by and Chiggy soon began hitting up entire companies, swapping funds or just wrecking playful havoc on their computer systems. Unfortunately, this time he was sloppy and wound up being arrested. Sentenced to five years in jail, it was at this time in his life that he was approached by other conflicts. Having heard of his case and disbelief at what he had done, Chiggy showed them his skills by doing minor hacking from within the prison.

 

Upon his release, the contacts he made set him up with a few ‘runners’. Runners are the true black op mercenaries for global companies. They take on missions ranging from escort and theft, to full scale terrorism and murder. The reason being a runner is so appealing is that they get paid obscene amounts of cash and tend to have access to government grade materials. Making contact with these runners, Chiggy’s new life began.

   

A few runs later, he had augmented his own body with state of the art cyberware, computer components that can be integrated with the human body. Now, his body sports a direct link between his gunsights to his eyes, data jacks to insert programs or extra memory straight into his brain but also his Deck. Deck is was he refers to his armored super computer that he wears. Its power is nearly unmatched and has the capability for him to mentally enter the cyberworld to speed up his hacking. He is now a Decker for hire, if the pay is good or job interesting enough, he’ll take it for the thrill of the hack.

 

Despite his prior Criminal record, Chiggy relied on the connections he made through the companies who hired him and his own family influence to land a stable programming job at the main technological hub of Rakshasa, where he get the privilege of moderating and programming the ever growing computer world.

 

While he may have all his needs met with that job, it still doesn’t sate his hunger for illegal high risk hacking jobs. Because of his type-A personality, he enters into the shadowlands and takes follows the command of the leading gang boss when she comes up with interesting job opportunities for him.

  

Garb of Anubis components

 

Helmet Components:

 

Commlink: Commlinks are the universal Matrix access device, used by everyone to be online all-the time, control all of their electronics, access their ID and accounts, and enhance their experiences with augmented and virtual reality.

 

Flare Compensation: This protects the user from blinding flashes of light as well as simple glare. Flare compensation also protects users with thermographic vision from heat flashes and glare from infrared lighting. It eliminates the vision modifiers for glare.

 

Low-Light Vision: This accessory allows the user to see normally in light levels as low as starlight. Total darkness still renders the user as blind as an unmodified person.

 

Micro-Transceiver: This classic short-range communication device is perfect for discreet operations. The micro- transceiver consists of an earbud and adhesive subvocal microphone (see p. 318). The transceiver’s Signal rating is equal to its Device rating.

Sensors:

Camera: The most common sensor, cameras can capture still photos, video, or trideo (including sound). Cameras may also be upgraded with vision enhancements (see p. 323).

Cyberware Scanner: This millimeter-wave scanner is primarily intended to detect cyber-implants, but can be used to identify other contraband as well. Maximum range 15 meters. See p. 255.

 

Directional Microphone: Allows the user to listen in on distant conversations. Solid objects as well as loud sounds outside the line of eavesdropping block the reception. Maximum range is 100 meters.

  

Hand and Arm components

Both hands

AR Gloves: AR Gloves: Available in all sizes and shapes, these gloves allow the user to manually interact with the Matrix, by manipulating virtual arrows, accessing a virtual keyboard or display, or remotely controlling a device. They are also equipped with force feedback, allowing for a limited tactile augmented reality experience. These gloves are also able to provide basic information regarding touched or held items, such as weight, temperature, and hardness.

 

Right hand

Skinlink: With skinlink, a device is adapted to send and receive data transmitted through the electrical field on the surface of metahuman skin. Though limited to touch, skinlink communication has the advantage of being protected from signal interception or jamming.

 

Maglock Passkey: The passkey can be inserted into a cardreader’s maglock, fooling it into believing that a legitimate passkey has been inserted.

 

Left Hand

Laser Microphone: This sensor bounces a laser beam against a solid object like a windowpane, reads the vibrational variations of the surface, and translates them into the sounds that are occurring on the other side of the surface.

 

Autopicker: This lockpick gun is a quick and effective way of bypassing mechanical locks. The autopicker’s rating added as a dice pool modifier to the Locksmith + Agility Test to pick the lock (see p. 125), or used in place of Locksmith skill if the character lacks it.

  

Torso and Back Components

 

Chameleon Suit: A full body suit made from ruthenium polymers supported by a sensor suite that scans the surroundings and replicates the images at the proper perspectives, providing the wearer with chameleon abilities. Apply a –4 dice pool modifier to Perception Tests to see the wearer. Also armored for additional protection. (This serves as the base upon which the other features have been added onto.

 

Software and Data Chips

Mapsoft: Mapsoft programs feature detailed information on a particular area, from streets to business/residential listings to topographical, census, GPS, and environmental data. An interactive interface allows you to quickly determine the best routes/directions, locate the nearest spot of your choice, or create your own customized maps. The mapsoft automatically updates itself with the latest data and will retrieve correlating online data (GridGuide traffic reports, restaurant menus, etc.) as necessary.

   

Means of connection

Fiberoptic Cable: This cable is used to establish a wired connection between two devices.

Laser Link This device allows an attached node to communicate with other laser-equipped nodes (see Beam Links, p. 51). Laser links require line of sight, and may be hampered by smoke or fog (reduce Signal by the Visibility modifier). Laser links are immune to radio-frequency jamming. (The laser link on p. 58, Arsenal, is

simply a Rating 2 laser link.)

 

Satellite Link: This allows the user to uplink to communication satellites in low-Earth orbit, connecting to the Matrix from places where no local wireless networks exist. This link has a Signal rating of 8. Includes a portable satellite dish.

 

Programs

Attack programs, anti-virus, firewalls, decryption programs, encryption programs, Key generators, password crackers, key loggers, tracking software, fake ID tags.

  

Normal daily life along a different timeline - which we cannot find - but have the feeling that it exists - but

 

Certainly!

 

Quantum computing represents a groundbreaking advancement in technology, deeply intertwined with the concepts of superposition, entanglement, and interference from quantum physics. Unlike classical computing, which processes information in a linear fashion using bits (0s and 1s), quantum computing utilizes quantum bits or qubits that can exist in multiple states simultaneously. This enables quantum computers to perform numerous calculations at once, effectively navigating through a vast landscape of potential solutions.

 

The idea of parallel timelines can be likened to the way quantum computers operate. Each decision or computation can be viewed as branching into multiple outcomes, similar to how different timelines might unfold based on various choices. This means that a quantum computer can explore various paths to a solution simultaneously, leading to remarkable efficiencies in solving complex problems.

 

In practical terms, this capability could revolutionize fields such as cryptography, where quantum computers may break existing encryption methods faster than classical computers. In material science, they could simulate quantum phenomena to discover new materials with desirable properties. Additionally, in optimization problems across various industries, quantum computing offers the potential to find the most efficient solutions more rapidly than traditional methods.

 

In summary, the link between quantum computing and the concept of parallel timelines highlights a fascinating intersection of technology and theoretical physics, suggesting that our understanding of reality may be more complex and interconnected than we previously imagined.

Geheimschreiber

 

Although the ENIGMA remains the best know German cryptographic machine of World War II, in the early 1940's the German military introduced several new cryptographic teletypewriters known under the name Geheimschreiber - sometimes translated as "private secretary", sometimes as "secret writer".

 

These machines offered on-line encryption and decryption, that is plain test could be typed directly into the machine, automatically converted to encrypted text, and sent directly to the transmitter. In addtion to security, these "secret writers" provided the Germans with the ability to encrypt large volumes of test at high speed.

 

Learning that the Germans had named an early version of these machines SWORDFISH, the British and Americans bestowed nicknames associated with fish on the machines and the communications links in which they were used. The two most famous are TUNNY and STURGEON.

 

Just as they developed the Bombe to assist decryption of ENIGMA , the British developed data processing to attack the fish family of machine ciphers. (I must add: This was a whale of a job!) This led to the construction of the COLOSSUS which British historian F. H. Hinsley is "justly claimed as a pioneer programmable electronic digital computer."

The 40 (SZ40) when first encountered in 1940 was nicknamed TUNNY by the British - after a fish better known to Americans as TUNA.

 

The Schlüsselzusatz SZ40, manufactured by the German firm Lorenz, was used by the German Army for high-level communications, generally between Army groups. It provided on-line encryption and decryption and was capable of handling large volumes f traffic at high speed. The TUNNY depended on wheels for encryption and decryption but unlike ENIGMA it did nut substitute letters but insted encrypted elements of the electrically generated Baudot code used in normal telegraphic transmissions.

  

Source: National Cryptologic Museum 13 February 2009 with some hyperlinks added

 

Link to report on TUNNY

 

A modern day COLLOSSUS

 

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Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau works for the benefit of cipherspace. Cipherspace is the state of crypto anarchy. This means that your identity is anonymous as long as you stay protected. There are no identities or authorities in cipherspace, and it is not possible to enforce laws where there is no identity, or where there are no authorities.

 

Today there are several threats to the inhabitants of the internet. The politicians of oppressive regimes in the east and in the west, in north and south, are imposing surveillance. Surveillance of the entire networks. What people say to each other, what information is transmitted between bots and humans alike.

 

This aggression must be met with the strongest encryption algorithms available to modern computers. With onion and garlic routing it is possible to erect the fractal cipherspace. With distributed hash tables it is possible to create networks that has no central node. There is no one that controls the fractal cipherspace. Internet as we know it, turns into darknet.

 

Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau recommends that you use the following software: i2p, for anonymous and secure communications, Gnu Privacy Guard, for direct and verified communication. The onion router, TOR, to access the internets.

 

Telecomix Munitions is a defense bureau.

 

You can change the future of the internets by joining us in defending the networks and creating cipherspace.

 

You can help defending yourself and your friends, yes, all inhabitants of the networks.

 

By learning a few skills you can take control over technology.

 

Telecomix munitions are currently developing and promoting advanced security devices, which can endure even the harshest forms of government or corporation surveillance.

 

Your personal computer is an encryption device. Modern hardware can transform plain text to ciphertext with ease. So rapidly you barely notice the difference between unencrypted and encrypted data.

 

The laws of mathematics are infinitely stronger than the laws of nations and corporations, as the human laws are really only ink on paper. The laws of mathematics, on the other hand, are the laws that define our very universe. With the use of modern crypto algorithms we can use this fact to defend free speech and the integrity of both bots and humans. Information is nothing but numbers, numbers governed not by human laws, but by the laws of mathematics.

 

Networks that utilize the power of cryptography already exist. It will not be possible to stop the spread of the fractal cipherspace.

 

To find out more, come to telecomix.org or visit us in cipherspace on telecomix.i2p.

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How to encrypt files and directories with eCryptFS on Linux

 

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from 'Islands and Other Experiments'

  

ARM 32-bit Cortex M3 CPU: STM32, F103TBU6, 9HA12 9U, MYS 434

Technical specifications of the sexy thin E71

  

Size Form: Monoblock with full keyboard

Dimensions: 114 x 57 x 10 mm

Weight: 127 g

Volume: 66 cc

Full keyboard

High quality QVGA display

Display and 3D Size: 2.36"

Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)

Up to 16 million colors

TFT active matrix (QVGA)

Two customisable home screen modes

Security features Device lock

Remote lock

Data encryption for both phone memory an microSD content

mobile VPN

Keys and input method Full keyboard

Dedicated one-touch keys: Home, calendar, contacts, and email

Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling

Intelligent input with auto-completion, auto-correction and learning capability

Accelerated scrolling with NaviTMKey

Notification light in NaviTMKey

Colors and covers Available in-box colours:

- Grey steel

- White steel

Connectors Micro-USB connector, full-speed

2.5 mm Nokia AV connector

Power BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Po standard battery

Talk time:

- GSM up to 10 h 30 min

- WCDMA up to 4 h 30 min

Standby time:

- GSM up to 17 days

- WCDMA up to 20 days

- WLAN idle up to 166 hours

Music playback time (maximum): 18 h

Memory microSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 8 GB

110 MB internal dynamic memory

Communication and navigation

Communication and navigation

Operating frequency E71-1 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/2100 HSDPA

E71-2 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/1900 HSDPA

E71-3 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/2100 HSDPA

Offline mode

Data network CSD

HSCSD

GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 100/60 kbps (DL/UL)

EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)

WCDMA 900/2100 or 850/1900 or 850/2100, maximum speed 384/384 kbps (DL/UL)

HSDPA class 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps/384 kbps (DL/UL)

WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g

WLAN Security: WEP, 802.1X, WPA, WPA2

TCP/IP support

Nokia PC Internet Access (capability to serve as a data modem)

IETF SIP and 3GPP

Local connectivity and synchronization Infrared, maximum speed 115 kbps

Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate

- Bluetooth profiles: DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, HSP, BIP, RSAP, GAVDP, AVRCP, A2DP

MTP (Multimedia Transfer Protocol) support

Bluetooth (Bluetooth Serial Port Profile. BT SPP)

Infrared

File

Network (Raw). Direct TCP/IP socket connection to any specified port (a.k.a HP JetDirectTM).

Network (LPR). Line Printer Daemon protocol (RFC1179).

Support for local and remote SyncML synchronization, iSync, Intellisync, ActiveSync

Call features Integrated handsfree speakerphone

Automatic answer with headset or car kit

Any key answer

Call waiting, call hold, call divert

Call timer

Logging of dialed, received and missed calls

Automatic redial and fallback

Speed dialing

Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialing (SDND, SIND)

Fixed dialing number support

Vibrating alert (internal)

Side volume keys

Mute key

Contacts with images

Conference calling

Push to talk

VoIP

Messaging SMS

Multiple SMS deletion

Text-to-speech message reader

MMS

Distribution lists for messaging

Instant messaging with Presence-enhanced contacts

Cell broadcast

E-mail Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP

Support for e-mail attachments

IMAP IDLE support

Support for Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email

Integrated Nokia Mobile VPN

Easy Email set-up

Web browsing Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, MP, WML, CSS

Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP 2.0

TCP/IP support

Nokia browser

- JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5

- Mini Map

Nokia Mobile Search

Nokia PC Internet Access (capability to serve as a data modem)

GPS and navigation Integrated A-GPS

Nokia Maps application

Image and sound

Image and sound

Photography 3.2 megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)

Image formats: JPEG/EXIF

CMOS sensor

digital zoom

Autofocus

Focal length: 3.8 mm

Focus range: 10 cm to infinity

Macro focus: 10-60 cm

LED flash

Flash modes: Automatic, On, Red-eye reduction, Off

Flash operating range: 1 m

White balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent

Centre weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.7 step

Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video

Scene modes: auto, user defined, close-up, portrait, landscape, night, night portrait

Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative

Full-screen viewfinder with grid

Active toolbar

Share photos with Share on Ovi

Video Main camera

320 x 240 (QVGA) up to 15 fps

176 x 144 at 15 fps (QCIF)

digital video zoom

Front camera

- Video recording at up to 128 x 96 pixels (QCIF) and up to 15 fps

- Up to 2x digital video zoom

Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP

Audio recording formats: AMR,AAC

Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent

Scene modes: automatic, night

Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative

Clip length (maximum): 1 h

RealPlayer

Video playback file formats: .Flash Lite 3, mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP,RealVideo,H.264

Video streaming: .3gp, mp4, .rm

Customisable video ring tones

Music and audio playback Music player

Media player

Music playback file formats: .mp3, .wma, .aac, AAC+, eAAC+

Audio streaming formats: .rm, .eAAC+

FM radio 87.5-108 MHz

Visual Radio support. Read more: www.visualradio.com

2.5 mm Nokia AV connector

Nokia Music Manager

Nokia Music Store support

Nokia Podcasting support

Customizable ring tones

Synchronize music with Windows Media Player

NaviTM wheel support

Voice Aid

Voice and audio recording Voice commands

Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling (SDND, SIND)

Voice recorder

Audio recording formats: AMR-WB, AMR-NB

Speech codecs: FR, EFR, HRO/1, AMR-HR, and AMR-FR

Text-to-speech

Personalization: profiles, themes, ring tones Customizable profiles

Customizable ring tones

Customisable video ring tones

Support for talking ring tones

Customizable themes

Customizable home screen content in Business and Personal modes

Software

Software

Software platform and user interface S60 3.1 Edition, Eseries

Symbian Os 9.2

Two home screens with customizable active standby views

Voice commands

FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)

Personal information management (PIM): contacts, clock, calendar etc. Advanced contacts database: multiple number and e-mail details per contact, contacts with images

Support for assigning images to contacts

Support for contact groups

Closed user group support

Fixed Dialling Number support

Clock: analogue and digital

Alarm clock with ring tones

Reminders

Calculator with advanced functions

Calendar with week and month view

Converter

Active Notes

To-do list

PIM information viewable during call

Applications JavaTM MIDP 2.0

Flash Lite 3.0

Chat and instant messaging

Nokia browser

- JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5

- Mini Map

Dictionary

Quickoffice (Quickword, Quickpoint, Quicksheet)

PDF Viewer

ZIP Manager

Download!

File Manager

Nokia Search

Nokia Maps

Adding more applications:

- Use the Download! client

- Over-the-air (OTA) downloads

Accessories

Accessories

Sales package contents Nokia E71

Nokia Battery (BP-4L)

Nokia Charger (AC-5)

Nokia Connectivity Cable (CA-101)

Nokia Headset (HS-47)

Nokia Eseries Lanyard

Nokia Eseries Pouch

User Guide, Quick Start Guide and other documentation

2GM microSD depending on market/channel

Recommended accessories Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-602

Nokia Mobile Holder CR-106

Nokia 8 GB microSDHC Card MU-43

Compatible accessories Complete accessories for your Nokia E71

Support and related documents

Support and related documents

Related documents SAR certification information

Eco Declaration (.pdf, 52 KB)

Declaration of Conformity

Product legal notice

Product legal notice

Copyright © 2008 Nokia. All rights reserved.

 

europe.nokia.com/A41146122

  

Digital photos should be treated like any other precious data. Companies go through extensive, sophisticated and sometimes highly complex methods of protecting their data. We as individuals can learn a lot from them in terms of disaster recovery and business continuance plans. While they generally have a lot more financial resources to throw at the problem, some of their solutions can be scaled down and made feasible for individuals to implement.

 

For internal drives, I've had pretty good luck with Seagate, IBM and Hitachi. I have had a bunch of 18GB and 9GB SCSI Hitachi drives that had been spinning pretty much for 10 years straight in one of my old servers. For Seagate drives, I recommend the AS type drives for workstations, ES for servers and NS for storage arrays.

 

As for external storage, it depends on the requirements. Do you need it to be highly portable, luggable or fixed? I have all three.

 

[0] Portable - This drive is meant to go where I go and provides a means of extended normally acquiesced storage for in-the-field and on-the-road backups to data normally on my laptop. I'm still using an old Apricorn Aegis Bio 160GB for this solution. It has built-in security that's biometrically protected for access as well as data encryption. The biometrics is all on the drive unit itself so it's not tied to any specific laptop or operating system. It appears as a USB mass storage device to the host. It is powered through the USB connection. I need the security because I also have sensitive data for work. I'll probably snag myself a larger drive at some point but honestly, I don't need much carry-around storage since I regularly sync back to the "mothership" anyways.

 

[1] Luggable - This type of drive is externally powered and is usually a bit larger. It may have several ways to connect to the host including Firewire, USB and SATA. I have a couple of Western Digital MyBook drives for this. I don't carry them around. I actually use them as backup media for my network storage array. Basically they've replaced my tape-backup solution. I simply hook up the drive, start my backups and then unhook the drive and store them away. I have several of them so I can rotate them to adhere to my backup and retention strategy.

 

[2] Network Attached Storage (NAS) - This is a fixed location, typically multidrive array that is accessed and accessible over the network. I run a large number of computers at home and so I needed some kind of fileserver. For this, I use a QNAP TS-869 Pro. It has eight drive bays and is populated with 3TB drives configured into RAID-5 volumes. I also have a second NAS which acts as my backup NAS that mirrors my primary NAS. In the event of a total primary NAS failure, I can shift mounts to my back NAS. The backup NAS is a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ (formerly Infrant before Netgear bought them). It holds 4 drives and is currently configured with 2TB drives. It supports several forms of RAID from simple striping to mirroring to RAID-5 with hot-standby. It also supports its own proprietary X-RAID. Both NAS appliances allow for organic growth of the array without incurring substantial rebuilding and downtime of the volumes. You simply add drives as you need and the thing grows in size... even while hot. Files are accessible via many forms of transport protocol including NFS (my main priority), CIFS, AFS, Windows sharing, HTTP/HTTPS and FTP. They provide fault-tolerant highly redundant solutions. They also include a built-in backup system which is what I use with the WD MyBooks to achieve nightly incremental and weekly full backups. They don't come with a card reader but they do act as a USB-host so a USB card reader can be attached to it. Any USB mass storage devices (including my DSLR) can be attached to them and exported over the network. They can also act as USB print servers if need be but my printers are already network capable. They support a bunch of software plugins that can be installed to make them do other stuff too such as act as a security camera DVR..

 

It's probably a good idea to develop an archiving method too. Mine involves a mixture of online, nearline and offline storage with backups.

 

Nearline field storage includes my laptop's drive and a portable external drive. The laptop has a 320GB drive and the portable external drive is 160GB in capacity. Online and nearline home storage is a 4x1TB network attached storage array running proprietary X-RAID (like RAID-5) with a hot-spare drive. Offline backups are done with external HDs that are rotated into place for nightly incremental and weekly full backups. Current retention schema is 4 weeks of backups with a one week offsite rotation (performed monthly).

 

Note that if you go the NAS route, many of them have integrated multiple concurrent backup solutions. For instance, my ReadyNAS supports both local and remote nearline storage mechanisms and has a built-in multi-job backup manager. It can be set to sync to another NAS, to attached JBODs (Just a Bunch Of Disks) and/or streamed backup to an offsite backup provider such as their own cloud-based ReadyNAS Vault service which itself can support multiple devices. So when investigating NAS solutions, also pay attention to what it offers as far as integrated backup.

 

But as with anything, you must first develop your backup and data recovery strategy and policy. Once you've done that then you can develop a plan for implementing it. Once you've done that then you can settle upon what components you will need to purchase and set up.

 

One key thing to consider is your retention needs. Do you require that all data must be kept and archived or is it okay to overwrite, rotate or delete from archive? Do you need to only keep the most up-to-date copy of your data or do you need version control starting from data birth? How long can you survive with a loss of data? What is your critical recovery time threshold? How many users will be effected? How much data are you willing to lose? If you lose your last week's worth of work for an hour, is it a tragedy or can you live with the time it takes to drive to the safety deposit box at your bank to get the monthly backup drive? Will streaming back 500GB of data from an offsite network backup provider at 10Mbps simply be too long? Do you need to rebuild from bare metal or do you only need critical data backed up?

 

I only keep NEFs. I create JPEGs and TIFFs only for distribution and have a special Exports directory where I keep them. I then I get rid of them after a short period of time... usually within a month. I use CNX so I can manage versioning within the NEFs since only CNX can write-back NEFs. If I create a JPEG or TIFF I like, I will create a version of the CNX edit steps with the name of that JPEG/TIFF. This way I don't need to keep the JPEG/TIFF. I can always easily recreate it from the NEF version. Because NEFs support multiple versions within the same file, there is no excess space usage by having different versions of the edit steps.

 

I don't suggest just blindly adopting one specific setup. You have to analyse your needs, your resources, your budget, your comfort with complexity and figure out what works best for you and more importantly, you need to understand the details. Knowing where and how your data lives is very important when it comes to ensuring survivability and disaster recovery.

How to encrypt files and directories with eCryptFS on Linux

 

If you would like to use this photo, be sure to place a proper attribution linking to xmodulo.com

Forget the NSA.

Forget the FBI.

Forget the Federal Government.

You ARE being watched by EVERY online business... including Yahoo!, parent firm of Flickr... and MORE!

What you're seeing here is a partial list of trackers that have been stopped by some of the add-ons listed here below.

In the United States, by comparison, there are fewer online/data privacy laws that in European Union member nations, Australia or Canada.

• Read both sides of a brief Yes/No opinion on the matter here:

online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324338604578...

• Read a current (2013) news item about the matter here:

www.nbcnews.com/id/15221111/ns/technology_and_science-pri...

• And for the wonkier among us, here is Stanford University Law School's Center for Internet and Society

cyberlaw.stanford.edu/

Unbeknownst to most computer users, there are literally hundreds, thousands or more scripts, codes, hidden pixels, cookies and more which are all designed with one purpose in mind... TO TRACK YOU ONLINE.

Some malicious hackers take advantage of the abundance of such computer code to attempt to trick your computer into "giving away" valuable information, such as your identity, passwords to sensitive accounts (not just email, but online banking, prescription services, etc.), and more.

While in years past the Congress was motivated to address various aspects of such legitimate concern, and enacted the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), there is little reason to now imagine that this present Congress will do anything about anything... except sit on their big, fat cat asses and collect their taxpayer paid salaries, and enjoy some mighty fine health insurance and retirement benefits.

There really is no "watchdog" to protect consumers' interests, and the FCC is steam-rolling towards a system wherein only the BIG DOG companies can pay to play in the high-speed lane, and thereby, slow everyone else down. If you like the Internet AS IT IS NOW (not your provider, but the idea that EVERY SITE gets treated equally, i.e., PLAYS BY THE SAME RULES) then it is incumbent upon you to ACT NOW to share your comment with the FCC.

You may do that here, and select Proceeding Number entitled:

"14-28 Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet":

www.fcc.gov/comments

Meanwhile... when Congress gets in the mood to cooperate for the benefit of the people that elected them, and NOT the MAJOR CORPORATIONS, we can expect more of the same type of nonsensical foot-dragging which has hampered American economic recovery.

There ARE a few things you can do, however, to assist keeping your private information private, and to lower, and practically eliminate much of the tracking efforts and scripts that run amok in your computer.

Here's a partial list of FREEWARE, browser add-ons, and other tools which can significantly reduce the time it takes for various pages to load, as well as provide some level of control for you over the things that ask to flow through your computer.

Privacy Badger, anti-tracking browser add-on, by Electronic Frontier Foundation

www.eff.org/privacybadger

HTTPS Everywhere, secure connection browser add-on, by Electronic Frontier Foundation

www.eff.org/https-everywhere-node

Ghostery, anti-tracking, privacy browser add-on by Ghostery

ghostery.com

Disconnect, blocking, counter-tracking browser add-on, by Disconnect

Disconnect.me

NoScript Security Suite, script blocker/identifier, Firefox browser add-on, by Giogio Maone

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

MaskMe, hides your email address in online forms & provides "disposable" hidden email addresses, by Abine

www.abine.com/maskme/

DoNotTrackMe, browser add-on/mobile app, by Abine

abine.com/donottrackme.html

Flashblock, blocks Adobe's Flash player-mediated functions until you specifically request it, Firefox browser add-on, by Philip Chee

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/

And the Granddaddy of them all...

GPG Tools & Suite, public key encryption software for the Apple OS (Macintosh), by GPGTools

gpgtools.org/

Hackerspace Hack42 is proudly hosting a new artist-in-residence. Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci) is a (former) Harvard Kennedy School researcher. She is working on re-branding the Dark-Web to the EDTR-web, a place for Expressing, Dissenting, Teaching and Resisting. The EDTR-web is using technologies like TOR and encrypted communications tools to create a place of freedom where centralised power cannot reach.

Vera will be using arts (oil painting and songwriting) as well as writing and political science methods to define and develop the EDTR-web as a social space and technological phenomenon.

 

I was asked to shoot a couple of photos of Vera. We connected really well and it turned into a two hour photo-shoot in which we had great fun driving around the hackerspace and Buitenplaats Koningsweg compound looking for shooting locations during golden hour.

Geheimschreiber

 

Although the ENIGMA remains the best know German cryptographic machine of World War II, in the early 1940's the German military introduced several new cryptographic teletypewriters known under the name Geheimschreiber - sometimes translated as "private secretary", sometimes as "secret writer".

 

These machines offered on-line encryption and decryption, that is plain test could be typed directly into the machine, automatically converted to encrypted text, and sent directly to the transmitter. In addtion to security, these "secret writers" provided the Germans with the ability to encrypt large volumes of test at high speed.

 

Learning that the Germans had named an early version of these machines SWORDFISH, the British and Americans bestowed nicknames associated with fish on the machines and the communications links in which they were used. The two most famous are TUNNY and STURGEON.

 

Just as they developed the Bombe to assist decryption of ENIGMA , the British developed data processing to attack the fish family of machine ciphers. (I must add: This was a whale of a job!) This led to the construction of the COLOSSUS which British historian F. H. Hinsley is "justly claimed as a pioneer programmable electronic digital computer."

The 40 (SZ40) when first encountered in 1940 was nicknamed TUNNY by the British - after a fish better known to Americans as TUNA.

 

The Schlüsselzusatz SZ40, manufactured by the German firm Lorenz, was used by the German Army for high-level communications, generally between Army groups. It provided on-line encryption and decryption and was capable of handling large volumes f traffic at high speed. The TUNNY depended on wheels for encryption and decryption but unlike ENIGMA it did nut substitute letters but insted encrypted elements of the electrically generated Baudot code used in normal telegraphic transmissions.

 

Source: National Cryptologic Museum 13 February 2009 with some hyperlinks added

 

Link to report on TUNNY

 

A modern day COLLOSSUS

 

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Technical specifications of the sexy thin E71

  

Size Form: Monoblock with full keyboard

Dimensions: 114 x 57 x 10 mm

Weight: 127 g

Volume: 66 cc

Full keyboard

High quality QVGA display

Display and 3D Size: 2.36"

Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)

Up to 16 million colors

TFT active matrix (QVGA)

Two customisable home screen modes

Security features Device lock

Remote lock

Data encryption for both phone memory an microSD content

mobile VPN

Keys and input method Full keyboard

Dedicated one-touch keys: Home, calendar, contacts, and email

Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling

Intelligent input with auto-completion, auto-correction and learning capability

Accelerated scrolling with NaviTMKey

Notification light in NaviTMKey

Colors and covers Available in-box colours:

- Grey steel

- White steel

Connectors Micro-USB connector, full-speed

2.5 mm Nokia AV connector

Power BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Po standard battery

Talk time:

- GSM up to 10 h 30 min

- WCDMA up to 4 h 30 min

Standby time:

- GSM up to 17 days

- WCDMA up to 20 days

- WLAN idle up to 166 hours

Music playback time (maximum): 18 h

Memory microSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 8 GB

110 MB internal dynamic memory

Communication and navigation

Communication and navigation

Operating frequency E71-1 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/2100 HSDPA

E71-2 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/1900 HSDPA

E71-3 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/2100 HSDPA

Offline mode

Data network CSD

HSCSD

GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 100/60 kbps (DL/UL)

EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)

WCDMA 900/2100 or 850/1900 or 850/2100, maximum speed 384/384 kbps (DL/UL)

HSDPA class 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps/384 kbps (DL/UL)

WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g

WLAN Security: WEP, 802.1X, WPA, WPA2

TCP/IP support

Nokia PC Internet Access (capability to serve as a data modem)

IETF SIP and 3GPP

Local connectivity and synchronization Infrared, maximum speed 115 kbps

Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate

- Bluetooth profiles: DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, HSP, BIP, RSAP, GAVDP, AVRCP, A2DP

MTP (Multimedia Transfer Protocol) support

Bluetooth (Bluetooth Serial Port Profile. BT SPP)

Infrared

File

Network (Raw). Direct TCP/IP socket connection to any specified port (a.k.a HP JetDirectTM).

Network (LPR). Line Printer Daemon protocol (RFC1179).

Support for local and remote SyncML synchronization, iSync, Intellisync, ActiveSync

Call features Integrated handsfree speakerphone

Automatic answer with headset or car kit

Any key answer

Call waiting, call hold, call divert

Call timer

Logging of dialed, received and missed calls

Automatic redial and fallback

Speed dialing

Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialing (SDND, SIND)

Fixed dialing number support

Vibrating alert (internal)

Side volume keys

Mute key

Contacts with images

Conference calling

Push to talk

VoIP

Messaging SMS

Multiple SMS deletion

Text-to-speech message reader

MMS

Distribution lists for messaging

Instant messaging with Presence-enhanced contacts

Cell broadcast

E-mail Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP

Support for e-mail attachments

IMAP IDLE support

Support for Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email

Integrated Nokia Mobile VPN

Easy Email set-up

Web browsing Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, MP, WML, CSS

Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP 2.0

TCP/IP support

Nokia browser

- JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5

- Mini Map

Nokia Mobile Search

Nokia PC Internet Access (capability to serve as a data modem)

GPS and navigation Integrated A-GPS

Nokia Maps application

Image and sound

Image and sound

Photography 3.2 megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)

Image formats: JPEG/EXIF

CMOS sensor

digital zoom

Autofocus

Focal length: 3.8 mm

Focus range: 10 cm to infinity

Macro focus: 10-60 cm

LED flash

Flash modes: Automatic, On, Red-eye reduction, Off

Flash operating range: 1 m

White balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent

Centre weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.7 step

Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video

Scene modes: auto, user defined, close-up, portrait, landscape, night, night portrait

Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative

Full-screen viewfinder with grid

Active toolbar

Share photos with Share on Ovi

Video Main camera

320 x 240 (QVGA) up to 15 fps

176 x 144 at 15 fps (QCIF)

digital video zoom

Front camera

- Video recording at up to 128 x 96 pixels (QCIF) and up to 15 fps

- Up to 2x digital video zoom

Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP

Audio recording formats: AMR,AAC

Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent

Scene modes: automatic, night

Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative

Clip length (maximum): 1 h

RealPlayer

Video playback file formats: .Flash Lite 3, mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP,RealVideo,H.264

Video streaming: .3gp, mp4, .rm

Customisable video ring tones

Music and audio playback Music player

Media player

Music playback file formats: .mp3, .wma, .aac, AAC+, eAAC+

Audio streaming formats: .rm, .eAAC+

FM radio 87.5-108 MHz

Visual Radio support. Read more: www.visualradio.com

2.5 mm Nokia AV connector

Nokia Music Manager

Nokia Music Store support

Nokia Podcasting support

Customizable ring tones

Synchronize music with Windows Media Player

NaviTM wheel support

Voice Aid

Voice and audio recording Voice commands

Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling (SDND, SIND)

Voice recorder

Audio recording formats: AMR-WB, AMR-NB

Speech codecs: FR, EFR, HRO/1, AMR-HR, and AMR-FR

Text-to-speech

Personalization: profiles, themes, ring tones Customizable profiles

Customizable ring tones

Customisable video ring tones

Support for talking ring tones

Customizable themes

Customizable home screen content in Business and Personal modes

Software

Software

Software platform and user interface S60 3.1 Edition, Eseries

Symbian Os 9.2

Two home screens with customizable active standby views

Voice commands

FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)

Personal information management (PIM): contacts, clock, calendar etc. Advanced contacts database: multiple number and e-mail details per contact, contacts with images

Support for assigning images to contacts

Support for contact groups

Closed user group support

Fixed Dialling Number support

Clock: analogue and digital

Alarm clock with ring tones

Reminders

Calculator with advanced functions

Calendar with week and month view

Converter

Active Notes

To-do list

PIM information viewable during call

Applications JavaTM MIDP 2.0

Flash Lite 3.0

Chat and instant messaging

Nokia browser

- JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5

- Mini Map

Dictionary

Quickoffice (Quickword, Quickpoint, Quicksheet)

PDF Viewer

ZIP Manager

Download!

File Manager

Nokia Search

Nokia Maps

Adding more applications:

- Use the Download! client

- Over-the-air (OTA) downloads

Accessories

Accessories

Sales package contents Nokia E71

Nokia Battery (BP-4L)

Nokia Charger (AC-5)

Nokia Connectivity Cable (CA-101)

Nokia Headset (HS-47)

Nokia Eseries Lanyard

Nokia Eseries Pouch

User Guide, Quick Start Guide and other documentation

2GM microSD depending on market/channel

Recommended accessories Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-602

Nokia Mobile Holder CR-106

Nokia 8 GB microSDHC Card MU-43

Compatible accessories Complete accessories for your Nokia E71

Support and related documents

Support and related documents

Related documents SAR certification information

Eco Declaration (.pdf, 52 KB)

Declaration of Conformity

Product legal notice

Product legal notice

Copyright © 2008 Nokia. All rights reserved.

 

europe.nokia.com/A41146122

  

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Hi everyone!

Yes, it is a joke but my day was not a joke at all or it was a really really bad joke... I lost all my photos from past years that I had on my external hard disk drive, yes, thanks to the fucking microsoft encryption software, all is gone!, then we are on the last weeks of the project so the release of the project was planned for the next Friday the 24th of January and yes, today, the date was changed for the 22nd of January, yes, more stress, I left the office today at midnight, yes, waiting for an available tester for my applications as the one who was working with me is out sick, yes more more awesome nice news, stress, yes I am really stressed! and tomorrow will not be better and just to make it better it is a fact that I will need to work on Saturday and Sunday, yes, already two meetings planned for Saturday and as the meetings are planned in USA times, well yes, I need to be at the office in the evening, on my weekend!, that fucking SUCKS!!! yes, I am stressed, I want just to get out of here!!!

 

About the photo, it was taken on August 30, I was helped by Anna, yes, one of the photos I didn't save on my external hard disk drive... well, I think I will try to go to bed now... have a nice evening or morning or day... chau...

Example of Locky ransomware.

 

Locky is ransomware malware released in 2016. It is delivered by email and after infection will encrypt all files that match particular extensions.

 

After encryption, a message (displayed on the user's desktop) instructs them to download the Tor browser and visit a specific criminal-operated Web site for further information.

 

The current version, released in December 2016, utilizes the .osiris extension for encrypted files.

 

Many different distribution methods for Locky have been used since the ransomware was released. These distribution methods include Word and Excel attachments with malicious macros,DOCM attachments and zipped JS Attachments.

 

Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locky

Kirken på Kapitelberget er en kirke fra middelalderen ved Bratsberg gård ved Skien i Telemark. Kirken er Skien kommunes tusenårssted.[1]

 

Kapitelberget ble opp ført som privat kapell til Bratsberg gård i begynnelsen av 1100-tallet. Kirken er en kryptkirke, som det bare finnes fire av i Norge (de andre er i Stavanger domkirke, Munkeliv klosterkirke og kirkeruinen i Søndre gate 4 i Trondheim).[2]

 

Kirken ble antakelig viet til Mikael, en engel omtalt i Bibelen da man i middelalderen ofte viet en kirke til en engel (eller helgen) for å knytte kontakt mellom kirken og engelen. Kirker på fjell ble ofte viet til Mikael, likeså kirker med krypt slik som Kapitelberget. Militære ledere brukte Mikael som tegn på at retten var på deres side. Mikael var også riddernes og soldatenes beskytter.

Krypten på Kapitelberget.

Foto: Rune Mathisen (Bitjungle)

 

Man vet ikke når kirken gikk ut av bruk, men i 1576 omtaler Peder Claussøn Friis den som en ruin, den kan ha blitt ødelagt da Bratsberg gård brant i 1156.[3] Ruinen ble gjenoppdaget i 1783, men den ble først utgravd i 1901. Så ble den stående og forfalle fram til 1928, da Gerhard Fischer tok til med restaurering og konservering. Arbeidet ble fullført i 1933. Murene har så blitt utbedret flere ganger, bl.a i 1952, 1968, 1982–1984, 1999 og 2003–2006.

 

Church Kapitelberget is a church from the Middle Ages by Bratsberg farm at Skien in Telemark. The church is Skien municipality millennium. [1]

 

Kapitelberget was brought up as a private chapel for Bratsberg farm in the early 1100's. The church is a crypt church, there are only four of Norway (the others are in Stavanger Cathedral, Munkeliv church and church ruins in the Southern gate 4 in Trondheim). [2]

 

The church was probably dedicated to Michael, an angel mentioned in the Bible as in the Middle Ages often dedicated a church to an angel (or weekend) to liaise between the church and the angel. Churches on the rock was often devoted to Michael, as well as churches with encryption so that Kapitelberget. Military leaders used Michael as a sign that right was on their side. Michael was also the Knights' and soldiers protecting.

Crypt of Kapitelberget.

Photo: Rune Mathisen (Bitjungle)

 

It is not known when the church went out of use, but in 1576 reviews Peder Claussøn Friis it as a ruin, it may have been destroyed when Bratsberg farm burned down in 1156. [3] The ruins were rediscovered in 1783, but it was first excavated in 1901 . Then the standing and decay until 1928, when Gerhard Fischer took to the restoration and preservation. The work was completed in 1933. The walls have now been repaired several times, bl.ai 1952, 1968, 1982-1984, 1999 and 2003-2006.

Taken with the N95 cameraphone

 

Here with my little finger ...:)

 

Technical specifications of the sexy thin E71

  

Size Form: Monoblock with full keyboard

Dimensions: 114 x 57 x 10 mm

Weight: 127 g

Volume: 66 cc

Full keyboard

High quality QVGA display

Display and 3D Size: 2.36"

Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)

Up to 16 million colors

TFT active matrix (QVGA)

Two customisable home screen modes

Security features Device lock

Remote lock

Data encryption for both phone memory an microSD content

mobile VPN

Keys and input method Full keyboard

Dedicated one-touch keys: Home, calendar, contacts, and email

Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling

Intelligent input with auto-completion, auto-correction and learning capability

Accelerated scrolling with NaviTMKey

Notification light in NaviTMKey

Colors and covers Available in-box colours:

- Grey steel

- White steel

Connectors Micro-USB connector, full-speed

2.5 mm Nokia AV connector

Power BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Po standard battery

Talk time:

- GSM up to 10 h 30 min

- WCDMA up to 4 h 30 min

Standby time:

- GSM up to 17 days

- WCDMA up to 20 days

- WLAN idle up to 166 hours

Music playback time (maximum): 18 h

Memory microSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 8 GB

110 MB internal dynamic memory

Communication and navigation

Communication and navigation

Operating frequency E71-1 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/2100 HSDPA

E71-2 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/1900 HSDPA

E71-3 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/2100 HSDPA

Offline mode

Data network CSD

HSCSD

GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 100/60 kbps (DL/UL)

EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)

WCDMA 900/2100 or 850/1900 or 850/2100, maximum speed 384/384 kbps (DL/UL)

HSDPA class 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps/384 kbps (DL/UL)

WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g

WLAN Security: WEP, 802.1X, WPA, WPA2

TCP/IP support

Nokia PC Internet Access (capability to serve as a data modem)

IETF SIP and 3GPP

Local connectivity and synchronization Infrared, maximum speed 115 kbps

Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate

- Bluetooth profiles: DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, HSP, BIP, RSAP, GAVDP, AVRCP, A2DP

MTP (Multimedia Transfer Protocol) support

Bluetooth (Bluetooth Serial Port Profile. BT SPP)

Infrared

File

Network (Raw). Direct TCP/IP socket connection to any specified port (a.k.a HP JetDirectTM).

Network (LPR). Line Printer Daemon protocol (RFC1179).

Support for local and remote SyncML synchronization, iSync, Intellisync, ActiveSync

Call features Integrated handsfree speakerphone

Automatic answer with headset or car kit

Any key answer

Call waiting, call hold, call divert

Call timer

Logging of dialed, received and missed calls

Automatic redial and fallback

Speed dialing

Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialing (SDND, SIND)

Fixed dialing number support

Vibrating alert (internal)

Side volume keys

Mute key

Contacts with images

Conference calling

Push to talk

VoIP

Messaging SMS

Multiple SMS deletion

Text-to-speech message reader

MMS

Distribution lists for messaging

Instant messaging with Presence-enhanced contacts

Cell broadcast

E-mail Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP

Support for e-mail attachments

IMAP IDLE support

Support for Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email

Integrated Nokia Mobile VPN

Easy Email set-up

Web browsing Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, MP, WML, CSS

Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP 2.0

TCP/IP support

Nokia browser

- JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5

- Mini Map

Nokia Mobile Search

Nokia PC Internet Access (capability to serve as a data modem)

GPS and navigation Integrated A-GPS

Nokia Maps application

Image and sound

Image and sound

Photography 3.2 megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)

Image formats: JPEG/EXIF

CMOS sensor

digital zoom

Autofocus

Focal length: 3.8 mm

Focus range: 10 cm to infinity

Macro focus: 10-60 cm

LED flash

Flash modes: Automatic, On, Red-eye reduction, Off

Flash operating range: 1 m

White balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent

Centre weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.7 step

Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video

Scene modes: auto, user defined, close-up, portrait, landscape, night, night portrait

Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative

Full-screen viewfinder with grid

Active toolbar

Share photos with Share on Ovi

Video Main camera

320 x 240 (QVGA) up to 15 fps

176 x 144 at 15 fps (QCIF)

digital video zoom

Front camera

- Video recording at up to 128 x 96 pixels (QCIF) and up to 15 fps

- Up to 2x digital video zoom

Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP

Audio recording formats: AMR,AAC

Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent

Scene modes: automatic, night

Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative

Clip length (maximum): 1 h

RealPlayer

Video playback file formats: .Flash Lite 3, mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP,RealVideo,H.264

Video streaming: .3gp, mp4, .rm

Customisable video ring tones

Music and audio playback Music player

Media player

Music playback file formats: .mp3, .wma, .aac, AAC+, eAAC+

Audio streaming formats: .rm, .eAAC+

FM radio 87.5-108 MHz

Visual Radio support. Read more: www.visualradio.com

2.5 mm Nokia AV connector

Nokia Music Manager

Nokia Music Store support

Nokia Podcasting support

Customizable ring tones

Synchronize music with Windows Media Player

NaviTM wheel support

Voice Aid

Voice and audio recording Voice commands

Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling (SDND, SIND)

Voice recorder

Audio recording formats: AMR-WB, AMR-NB

Speech codecs: FR, EFR, HRO/1, AMR-HR, and AMR-FR

Text-to-speech

Personalization: profiles, themes, ring tones Customizable profiles

Customizable ring tones

Customisable video ring tones

Support for talking ring tones

Customizable themes

Customizable home screen content in Business and Personal modes

Software

Software

Software platform and user interface S60 3.1 Edition, Eseries

Symbian Os 9.2

Two home screens with customizable active standby views

Voice commands

FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)

Personal information management (PIM): contacts, clock, calendar etc. Advanced contacts database: multiple number and e-mail details per contact, contacts with images

Support for assigning images to contacts

Support for contact groups

Closed user group support

Fixed Dialling Number support

Clock: analogue and digital

Alarm clock with ring tones

Reminders

Calculator with advanced functions

Calendar with week and month view

Converter

Active Notes

To-do list

PIM information viewable during call

Applications JavaTM MIDP 2.0

Flash Lite 3.0

Chat and instant messaging

Nokia browser

- JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5

- Mini Map

Dictionary

Quickoffice (Quickword, Quickpoint, Quicksheet)

PDF Viewer

ZIP Manager

Download!

File Manager

Nokia Search

Nokia Maps

Adding more applications:

- Use the Download! client

- Over-the-air (OTA) downloads

Accessories

Accessories

Sales package contents Nokia E71

Nokia Battery (BP-4L)

Nokia Charger (AC-5)

Nokia Connectivity Cable (CA-101)

Nokia Headset (HS-47)

Nokia Eseries Lanyard

Nokia Eseries Pouch

User Guide, Quick Start Guide and other documentation

2GM microSD depending on market/channel

Recommended accessories Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-602

Nokia Mobile Holder CR-106

Nokia 8 GB microSDHC Card MU-43

Compatible accessories Complete accessories for your Nokia E71

Support and related documents

Support and related documents

Related documents SAR certification information

Eco Declaration (.pdf, 52 KB)

Declaration of Conformity

Product legal notice

Product legal notice

Copyright © 2008 Nokia. All rights reserved.

 

europe.nokia.com/A41146122

  

Example of Locky ransomware.

 

Locky is ransomware malware released in 2016. It is delivered by email and after infection will encrypt all files that match particular extensions.

 

After encryption, a message (displayed on the user's desktop) instructs them to download the Tor browser and visit a specific criminal-operated Web site for further information.

 

The current version, released in December 2016, utilizes the .osiris extension for encrypted files.

 

Many different distribution methods for Locky have been used since the ransomware was released. These distribution methods include Word and Excel attachments with malicious macros,DOCM attachments and zipped JS Attachments.

 

Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locky

Hackerspace Hack42 is proudly hosting a new artist-in-residence. Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci) is a (former) Harvard Kennedy School researcher. She is working on re-branding the Dark-Web to the EDTR-web, a place for Expressing, Dissenting, Teaching and Resisting. The EDTR-web is using technologies like TOR and encrypted communications tools to create a place of freedom where centralised power cannot reach.

Vera will be using arts (oil painting and songwriting) as well as writing and political science methods to define and develop the EDTR-web as a social space and technological phenomenon.

 

I was asked to shoot a couple of photos of Vera. We connected really well and it turned into a two hour photo-shoot in which we had great fun driving around the hackerspace and Buitenplaats Koningsweg compound looking for shooting locations during golden hour.

Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau works for the benefit of cipherspace. Cipherspace is the state of crypto anarchy. This means that your identity is anonymous as long as you stay protected. There are no identities or authorities in cipherspace, and it is not possible to enforce laws where there is no identity, or where there are no authorities.

 

Today there are several threats to the inhabitants of the internet. The politicians of oppressive regimes in the east and in the west, in north and south, are imposing surveillance. Surveillance of the entire networks. What people say to each other, what information is transmitted between bots and humans alike.

 

This aggression must be met with the strongest encryption algorithms available to modern computers. With onion and garlic routing it is possible to erect the fractal cipherspace. With distributed hash tables it is possible to create networks that has no central node. There is no one that controls the fractal cipherspace. Internet as we know it, turns into darknet.

 

Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau recommends that you use the following software: i2p, for anonymous and secure communications, Gnu Privacy Guard, for direct and verified communication. The onion router, TOR, to access the internets.

 

Telecomix Munitions is a defense bureau.

 

You can change the future of the internets by joining us in defending the networks and creating cipherspace.

 

You can help defending yourself and your friends, yes, all inhabitants of the networks.

 

By learning a few skills you can take control over technology.

 

Telecomix munitions are currently developing and promoting advanced security devices, which can endure even the harshest forms of government or corporation surveillance.

 

Your personal computer is an encryption device. Modern hardware can transform plain text to ciphertext with ease. So rapidly you barely notice the difference between unencrypted and encrypted data.

 

The laws of mathematics are infinitely stronger than the laws of nations and corporations, as the human laws are really only ink on paper. The laws of mathematics, on the other hand, are the laws that define our very universe. With the use of modern crypto algorithms we can use this fact to defend free speech and the integrity of both bots and humans. Information is nothing but numbers, numbers governed not by human laws, but by the laws of mathematics.

 

Networks that utilize the power of cryptography already exist. It will not be possible to stop the spread of the fractal cipherspace.

 

To find out more, come to telecomix.org or visit us in cipherspace on telecomix.i2p.

Feel free to visit my works on Deviant Art: xp0s3.deviantart.com/

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