Serious nuclear accident may lay behind Iranian nuke chief's mystery resignation - Wikileaks. WikiLeaks: US advised to sabotage Iran nuclear sites by German thinktank | World news. The United States was advised to adopt a policy of "covert sabotage" of Iran's clandestine nuclear facilities, including computer hacking and "unexplained explosions", by an influential German thinktank, a leaked US embassy cable reveals. Volker Perthes, director of Germany's government-funded Institute for Security and International Affairs, told US officials in Berlin that undercover operations would be "more effective than a military strike" in curtailing Iran's nuclear ambitions. A sophisticated computer worm, Stuxnet, infiltrated the Natanz nuclear facility last year, delaying Iran's programme by some months.
The New York Times said this week that Stuxnet was a joint US-Israeli operation. On Monday, Iran's top nuclear negotiator blamed the US for the cyber-attack. Saeed Jalili told NBC News an investigation had found the US was involved in the attack that apparently shut down a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges in November. Perthes is a leading western expert on Iran. The coming civil war over general purpose computing. This talk was delivered at Google in August, and for The Long Now Foundation in July 2012.
A transcript of the notes follows. I gave a talk in late 2011 at 28C3 in Berlin called "The Coming War on General Purpose Computing" In a nutshell, its hypothesis was this: • Computers and the Internet are everywhere and the world is increasingly made of them. • We used to have separate categories of device: washing machines, VCRs, phones, cars, but now we just have computers in different cases. [[VCR, washing machine] [[747]] [[Hearing aid]] • This means that all of our sociopolitical problems in the future will have a computer inside them, too—and a would-be regulator saying stuff like this: "Make it so that self-driving cars can't be programmed to drag race" "Make it so that bioscale 3D printers can't make harmful organisms or restricted compounds" Which is to say: "Make me a general-purpose computer that runs all programs except for one program that freaks me out.
" [[Turing - 1]] [[Hal]] [[AACS key]] 1. What Is Proprietary Technology? John Gilmore's home page. Why I'm Not Answering Your Email US Homeland Security recorded what book I was reading as I crossed the border In direct violation of the Privacy Act, which states that federal agencies shall not record the how citizens use their First Amendment rights (unless specifically instructed to do so by statute), the US Department of Homeland Security recorded in my permanent dossier that as I flew into San Francisco from London, I had "many small flashlights with pot leaves on them. He had a book entitled 'Drugs And Your Rights'. [sic]" Images of the flashlight and the book are above. The Gestapo cared what works of philosophy you were reading. So did the Stasi. Every country tells its citizens, and the world at large, that it is a "free country". The United States is not a free country.
Those of you in free countries may like to read the book that DHS found so interesting, or meet the Rutgers professor of philosophy, Douglas Husak who wrote it. Current Projects Freedom Boxes. Things I've Started. John Gilmore (activist) An outspoken civil libertarian, Gilmore has sued the FAA, Department of Justice, and others. He unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of secret law regarding travel security policies in Gilmore v. Gonzales.[2][3] Gilmore is also a philanthropist, and has given financial support to, among others, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Marijuana Policy Project, Erowid, MAPS, and various organizations seeking to end the war on drugs.
As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems and founder of Cygnus Support, he accumulated sufficient wealth to take an early retirement and pursue other interests. Gilmore is co-author with Bill Croft of the 1985 Bootstrap Protocol (RFC 951), which evolved into DHCP, the primary way to obtain an IP address upon joining an Ethernet or wireless network. Gilmore has received the Free Software Foundation's Advancement of Free Software 2009 award.[4] He owns the domain toad.com which is one of the 100 oldest active .com domains.
Egyptian Activists' Action Plan: Translated - Alexis C. Madrigal. Egyptian activists have been circulating a kind of primer to Friday's planned protest. We were sent the plan by two separate sources and have decided to publish excerpts here, with translations into English. Over Twitter, we connected with a translator, who translated the document with exceptional speed. What follows are side-by-side translations of nine pages from the 26-page pamphlet. They were translated over the last hour and pasted up in Photoshop to give you an idea of what's in the protest plan. While the plan itself contains specifics about what protesters might do, these excerpts show how one might equip oneself for clashes with riot police.
As you'll read, the creators of the pamphlet explicitly asked that the pamphlet not be distributed on Twitter or Facebook, only through email or other contacts. The pages included are 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12, 13, 22, and 26. Update 8:21pm: People have asked why these particular pages were chosen.