Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Computer Scientist Cracks Mysterious 75,000-Character 'Copiale Cipher': Translation Expert Turning Insights and Computing Power on Other Coded Messages



""The manuscript seems straight out of fiction: a strange handwritten message in abstract symbols and Roman letters meticulously covering 105 yellowing pages, hidden in the depths of an academic archive.

Now, more than three centuries after it was devised, the 75,000-character "Copiale Cipher" has finally been broken.

The mysterious cryptogram, bound in gold and green brocade paper, reveals the rituals and political leanings of a 18th-century secret society in Germany. The rituals detailed in the document indicate the secret society had a fascination with eye surgery and ophthalmology, though it seems members of the secret society were not themselves eye doctors.



"This opens up a window for people who study the history of ideas and the history of secret societies," said computer scientist Kevin Knight of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, part of the international team that finally cracked the Copiale Cipher. "Historians believe that secret societies have had a role in revolutions, but all that is yet to be worked out, and a big part of the reason is because so many documents are enciphered."

To break the Copiale Cipher, Knight and colleagues Beáta Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer of Uppsala University in Sweden tracked down the original manuscript, which was found in the East Berlin Academy after the Cold War and is now in a private collection. They then transcribed a machine-readable version of the text, using a computer program created by Knight to help quantify the co-occurrences of certain symbols and other patterns.

"When you get a new code and look at it, the possibilities are nearly infinite," Knight said. "Once you come up with a hypothesis based on your intuition as a human, you can turn over a lot of grunt work to the computer."""


http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uosc-csc102411.php

Nuclear And Military Data Taken In Mitsubishi Hack: At Least Eight Different Pieces of Malware, Including Data-Stealing Trojans Used in the August 11th Attack.



""The perils of a well organised cyber-attack have been underlined once again, after highly sensitive data relating to Japan’s military and critical infrastructure was reportedly stolen.
In September, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries confirmed that its computer network had been breached by cyber-attackers in August. The attack hit approximately 45 servers and 38 computers, which were infected with malware at 10 facilities located throughout Japan, and at Mitsubishi’s Yokohama headquarters.
Mitsubishi is Japan’s largest defence contractor""

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Damaging Attack

""At the time, the firm was criticised for not reporting the security breach to Japan’s Defence Ministry until a month later, when details emerged in the media.
Mitsubishi was unable to say what data had been compromised in the August attack, but it did assure Japanese authorities that it had taken appropriate measures to safeguard all military information.""


FULL STORY CONTINUED:
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/nuclear-and-military-data-stolen-in-mitsubishi-cyber-attack-43592

Friday, October 21, 2011

Occupy The World: How Can We Rouse Police and Other Protectors of the Corporatocracy - "Guards" of the Status Quo - to Join the OWS Rebellion?


""Police, teachers, the corporate press, mental health professionals - the guards of the system - are given small rewards to pacify and control the population.

“In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, doctors, lawyers. . . . They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.”
—Howard Zinn, from “The Coming Revolt of the Guards,” A People’s History of the United States

For those of us who have demonstrated and marched in the Occupy movement, it is obvious that the police and the corporate press serve as guards—buffers between the vast majority of the American people and the ruling “corporatocracy” (the partnership of giant corporations, the wealthy elite, and their collaborating politicians). In addition to the police and the corporate press, there are millions of other guards employed by the corporatocracy to keep people obedient and maintain the status quo.
  

Even a partial revolt of the guards could increase the number of protesters on the streets from the thousands to the millions. When did Zinn predict the revolt would occur, and how can this revolt be accelerated?""

http://www.truth-out.org/how-can-we-rouse-police-and-other-protectors-corporatocracy-guards-status-quo-join-ows-rebellion/131

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