PBS Feature on Computer Hacking Instructive

[See it here]
http://www.wgbh.org/programs/NOVA-16/episodes/Rise-of-the-Hackers-54775

WGBH-TV one of Boston MA PBS stations broadcast "Rise of the Hackers" on Wednesday September 24, 2014. Produced at BBC 2013 for NOVA

The use of last four digits of a credit card is revealed as part of a way to steal a person's identity. But some institutions and businesses use the last four digits of the Social Security Numbers, which makes it easier to establish the entire number. Other institutions use the first five digits and make it even easier to learn the entire SSN. One university uses SSNs for student IDs, which is a reckless system. They claim arrogantly their system is unbreakable. Huh?

In the discussion the narrator states that the Stuxnet malware program was the first cyber weapon. How does he know that? Stuxnet may be the first cyber weapon exposed as a weapon. But there may be others that were operating and may have operated without detection.

Later the narrator says, "In todays digital world no one is sure who is hacking who . . . whether it's criminals, teenagers or even governments."

Algorithm using sub prime numbers permit private online transactions. Quantum computing for new computers may defeat the protection of use of sub prime numbers. Antidotes is use of quantum cryptography.

Ultra-paranoid computing is recommended in order to protect your data on any of your devices from being hacked. Do you hear that psychiatric industry!

Even iris scanners, and fingerprint scanners can be fooled by theft or copying. What I always got a laugh at was at the genius bar at the Apple store when the young smart behinds would say, "The only way someone knows your password is if you give it to them." Huh? Oh, Hahaha.

One solution is muscle memory using basal ganglia. After enough practice a participant can leave the lab knowing something that they don't know that they know.

People are the weak link in protecting complex systems using computers and technology.

Driverless Cars Tested

[From article]
An emergency stop button is on board and, if conditions confuse the system, the car will simply come to a halt.

Not always the best reaction.

[. . .]
Commuters could be driven to work in vehicles with office equipment or face-to-face seating for meetings. Designated drivers would be redundant and party cars could ferry groups to football matches stocked with beer, snacks and big-screen televisions. Driverless cars could take your kids to soccer practice, take blind or disabled people anywhere, pick up groceries or fetch the dog from its groomer.
[. . .]
New York hosted the world’s first driverless car demo — in 1925, when a radio-controlled car drove up Broadway and down Fifth Avenue in heavy traffic.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/21/how-google-might-put-taxi-drivers-out-of-business/

How Google might put taxi drivers out of business
By Diane Francis
June 21, 2014 | 3:19pm

Technology Run Amok, Police Clueless

Woman fell in love with an image online. She never met the man. A private investigator revealed the image was of a lawyer in Colorado. The name and address used by the scammer was of a psychiatrist. So a man was able to deceive a woman over many months using a name and address and an image which he got online pretending to be that person. The woman sent the man $190,000 over the time she was fooled. Local and state police remain clueless about stopping such scams. The FBI may have gotten involved since the amount was over their $75,000 threshold. What about people who suffer lesser damages? But also what about other technologies, some physically invasive, which are being used to torment civilians for personal and for political purposes? Unlike police agencies, which may not be as pure as Caesar's wife, criminals have no restraints on using such devices to harass, to provoke and to torment their targets. How many politicians, journalists, police and human services agency professionals are aware of such devices being used? How many of the above individuals use such devices and pretend they don't exist rendering the target being perceived as mentally ill?

http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/2099

Love Scams: "My Mother Chose Her Catfish over Her Family"
May 29, 2014

Scientists Created Cover Which Helps Heart Continue Beating, Prevents Attacks

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[From article]
Scientists have created an external membrane using a 3-D printer than can keep a heart beating virtually forever.

The thin membrane is elastic, designed to stretch over a heart like a glove, and is outfitted with tiny electrodes that monitor cardiac function – it was first demonstrated as a proof of concept on a rabbit heart.
Researchers at both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University published the astonishing breakthrough in Nature, and hope it will someday help prevent heart attacks in humans.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2571917/Membrane-heart-pumping-forever-possibly-prevent-heart-attacks.html

Membrane that can keep your heart pumping forever and possibly prevent heart attacks
The membrane has been proven to work on a rabbit heart
Researchers say it should be available for humans in the next 10-15 years
By RYAN GORMAN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 01:04 EST, 3 March 2014 | UPDATED: 07:39 EST, 3 March 2014

Friend Of Terror Suspect Laments Brain Implants and Body Doubles

[From article]
First he argued that there’s perhaps a double playing Qaradawi, before moving on to the brain chip theory and “remote-controlled” mind control.
“The al-Qaradhawi I know is dead. Israel is capable of anything. That’s a double, it’s not him,” Hassan Youssef said, according to a transcript provided by MEMRI.
The Dream 2 TV interviewer responded, “I like it when you use cinema talk … A double is someone who takes a beating instead of the real hero…”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/14/bizarre-claim-israel-planted-chip-in-brain-of-muslim-brotherhood-spiritual-leader/

BIZARRE CLAIM: ISRAEL PLANTED CHIP IN BRAIN OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SPIRITUAL LEADER
Oct. 14, 2013 11:19am
Sharona Schwartz

Nanotechnology Catches Thieves

Mike Jackson, Charged With Burglary, Using Smartwater CSI

http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21011098393980/smartwater-csi-helps-capture-burglary-suspect/

SmartWater CSI helps capture burglary suspect
Posted: 07/09/13 at 6:20 am EDT      Last Updated: 07/09/13 at 6:39 am EDT
WSVN News Fort Lauderdale FL

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http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/crime-fighting-chemical-spray-catches-thieves-off-guard-19931568

Crime-Fighting Chemical Spray Catches Thieves Off Guard
Police turning to high-tech mist that leaves invisible, odorless paint on crook.
08/11/2013

Manufacturer
smartwatercsi.com

Satellites For Everyone

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/space-all-small-cheap-satellites-may-one-day-do-your-6C10488674

Space for all: Small, cheap satellites may one day do your bidding
Matt Rivera and Alan Boyle
NBC News
July 14, 2013

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Kathy Biro Speaks to Columbia University School of Business Alumni

Kathy Biro, MBA, 1979, founder of Digitas, spoke to the Columbia University School of Business Alumni Association in Boston, MA on Tuesday, November 13, 2012. She said when she began she was described as "the most powerful woman in Boston's technology community." She explained, "I was the only one."


Kathy Biro, Founder, Digitas

Biro said she only needed reading glasses since she was a student at Columbia Business School. That's what Columbia did to her. Because of men at the university she had to choose her words more carefully. She explained that there was a limited range of options for women in the professions. She thought engineering was cool, even though she still does not know what engineering is. Do the engineering students at SEAS have any clue?

For her career, "typing was important." She was one of the top 100 students in New York City high schools. NYU's engineering school recruited her. She said neither of her parents graduated from high school. She studied marketing and finance at Columbia. 

Her original company was called Strategic Interactive Group. She wondered aloud how she went from being an English major to an online service company. In the 1980s marketing online services was unheard of. She said she anticipated the internet, as a means to serve "the internal desire to create one's own context." 

Giving free career management advice to the gathering Biro said goals and a specific written plan are essential. One must keep one's plan always in mind. "What is the plan?" "Where will you work on the plan?" What is the timetable?" She urged that whatever field you work in you should be at the "epicenter" of the discipline, like a "heat seeking missile." If you are an accountant work at an accounting firm, not an advertising firm.

She explained how "basic" the technical people were when she began her company. She called them "garage band" types, who ate uncooked frozen pizza. She said they were unable to have a conversation and more or less grunted. She said the customers were able to spell interactive but could not "land the plane." That's where she came in, describing it as "creating legitimate intellectual capital." But she said, "We were not cool. We did not go to meetings." 

About five men attended the talk, at the Communispace Corporation on Atlantic Wharf in Boston, with about 30 women. [I say "about" because these days with self identifying gender one cannot be certain at first or even second glance.] Biro refused to include her "women only" anecdotes because of the men present. I asked her twice and she refused twice, because none of the men present knows "the secret handshake of women."  In April, 1995 she had no employees, no computers, no PR strategy, no prospects and no web site. She seemed to attract "insane people." [She did not realize she was also a pioneer hiring persons with disabilities in professional positions.] "We had the belief that anything was possible because it was a new industry," she explained. "In a consulting business clients buy your confidence. You have to have a lot of guts," she added. She said they "doubled in size every couple of months," and "we made a lot of mistakes." 

She mentioned the secrets of "hyper growth." If she had to do it over it would be slower growth. But that is easier said than done. Biro called Digitas "a powerful marketing firm," which went public in 2000. She said it was the same day that President Clinton described technology as a "bubble." It was good for Digitas. She said her goal was to retire at 50 after creating something that lives on after she left. It appears she was extremely successful. She described briefly her tenure as an Adjunct Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. There was a man there who did not see the outside of the school for eight months. He traveled underground through Tuck's famous tunnels.

Repeating what other successful people say, she urged the audience to "focus on what you want to do. The money will come," she added. [That may work for others but it never worked for me. No matter what I tried over the last 42 years since I left Columbia, I ended up wondering what I did wrong.] 

[I was unable to counter relentless character assassination that continues today. At this event one man said to me,"You're retired." Retired? They began telling people I was "retired" when I was in my 30s. I never had an opportunity to resume my career after I left Columbia. It had something to do with the crime family that runs Massachusetts. I call it the Bulger crime family that runs the Boston FBI office; the source of many years of terror in my life. One element of character assassination for 30 years, was "He's a retired drug dealer." Another for 30 years, was "He's a racist." That did wonders for my economic, social and political lives.]  

Another Biro rule is "work should not be medicine." Don't take a job because "it is good for me. Do what you are good at," she said. That sounds like the Greek notion of "arete" translated roughly as excellence. It means doing what one is good at, to the best of one's ability.



Every job should add to "resume enhancement," Biro suggested. Resumes should be updated regularly even when not looking for a job. "It is OK to zig and zag," she said. When one becomes "senior management," one often realizes "I'm not making plan." Thus one should focus on passion, not a paycheck. [That may be good advice but it often leads to not eating well and having uncomfortable cribs.]



She insisted "Don't be afraid to think big thoughts." She did not explain what that meant. I studied philosophy and I've been thinking big thoughts ever since. Does God exist? Yes. No. Those are "big thoughts." Was Obama was thinking such big ones, when he revealed to the voters that he would begin lowering the oceans and healing the planet? Some thoughts are easier to say than to do.



She mentioned a lesson she learned late, that business leaders need to have "an exit plan." Few do. "You need people to take your place. You need a strategy to get out." She urged the audience to "embrace technology and change." She added, "technology is the new literacy. You need to embrace rapidity of change. Don't fear change."



"Be willing to take risks. Embrace it or be left behind."



Biro: "I have a reputation. Most of it is true."



"Can you get yourself and others excited?" [I can't remember if she made that exclusive to business.]



One young woman said she worked for a founder company led by two men and then one led by two women. She asked if Biro thought men lead differently than women. Biro said she does not think men and women lead differently. [Biro did not comment about left-handed women versus right-handed men.]



She discussed briefly measuring the outcome of advertising. Food manufacturers coupons are one way to measure the effectiveness of advertising. The companies that issue the coupons can count how many are redeemed. It is one reason why there are so many of them and why they will be around for a long time.



For some businesses it is not as easy to issue and to distribute coupons as it is for food companies. Except that with the internet, companies can and do issue coupons for discounts on their goods and services. It requires some effort to find many of them, but they are available.



Near the end of her talk she brought up the subject of languages. She explained that "marketing companies and technology people speak different languages." That is true not only for communication between marketing and technology. Lawyers, doctors, power repairmen, construction workers, all disciplines have their own specific usage of words. They can mean many different things depending on where they are used. This creates a need for people who can understand the different usages and who have the ability to communicate between groups of specially trained persons.

A Day Made of Glass

Watch "A Day Made of Glass" and take a look at the future with specialty glass at the heart of it. There are links to two more videos about this new technology within this video.

Dan Rea and ACLUM's Kade Crockford Discuss High Tech Surveillance

On Feb 2, 2012 Kade Crockford (ACLU Massachusetts, Privacy Rights Coordinator) appeared on Dan Rea's Nightside WBZ radio show broadcast from Boston MA. She noted that the ACLU's focus is on government abuses of technology, referring concerns of private abuses to other consumer privacy groups. Query, How much difference is there between government and private in 2012? The FBI and police use informants who are often private criminals. Crime families, corporations and Communists have associates in and out of government. They talk to one another. Police ask crime families to do them favors, and vice versa. Likewise the FBI.

Ordinary citizens cannot defend themselves against technology to protect their rights and privacy. Crockford expressed curiosity that local, state and federal politicians, who she described as high profile, did not work to protect themselves from such technological abuses. Today's politicians work with, if not for, the police and the FBI. They are weak persons (often described as spineless) with relaxed rectitude, like their corporate contributors. They do not defend the Constitution as per their oaths of office. They go along to get along. They encourage technological abuses of citizens who criticize them too enthusiastically. Police and the FBI are unable or unwilling to enforce the few laws that do exist regarding technology. Mentioned on air was the use of thermal imaging by police and by private citizens. Local police claim ignorance of how to enforce the few laws that exist. They are, if their leadership is to be believed, clueless on how to enforce laws on technological abuses. That is negligent training, which is actionable. A US law prohibits exposing citizens to radiation, and carries a $2 million fine. How do civilians get that law enforced?

Crockford said the uses of red spotlights in East Orange, NJ should be discussed within the context of what else is going on in society with surveillance technology.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9064107/Talking-CCTV-cameras-to-be-turned-off.html

Talking CCTV cameras to be turned off
Camden Council has said its new generation of talking, closed-circuit TV cameras were 'activated by mistake' and will have their voices turned off.
By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor
2:23PM GMT 06 Feb 2012

The same argument must be made regarding the use of technology by both government and by private criminals, who are unlikely to respect Constitutional Rights of citizens they target. Massachusetts has a Civil Rights statute that makes acts of private individuals a felony if they intimidate a person in the free exercise of a constitutionally protected right. Technological abuses by police and the FBI must be discussed recognizing the blurring of the line between public and private. Police and crime families cooperate. The FBI and crime families cooperate. The FBI and Communists cooperate. Police and the FBI cooperate with corporations e.g., drug companies. Working with psychiatrists and psychologists using technology, drug corporations target critics of their dangerous drugs and taxpayer funded programs forcing drugs on civilians.

They all use the same technology. Crockford noted the difference between public and private saying the government can put you in jail. But crime families, corporations and Communists can also have police or the FBI put you in jail. Is the ACLU clueless about that happening? That is an unpleasant fact in the United States today. What is the difference whether technology is used by private criminals or police criminals to violate a person's rights? Police or the FBI can legally refuse to stop criminal abuses of technology because it suits them. There is no legal obligation which forces police to act. The effect is the same. The ACLU should reconsider its focus to include when the government uses private persons to avoid Constitutional protections, and when government refuses to stop the same private abuses of technology.

James Bond 007 In Cambridge MA

MI-5 Britain's counterpart to the CIA appears to be operating in Cambridge MA. Taking note of the successes of al Qaeda using low tech means of communicating to thwart sophisticated electronic surveillance available to the spy agencies, the first two messages can be seen on the roadway of Mass Avenue after coming out of the tunnel from Broadway and Cambridge Street. The name of its most famous agent 007, James Bond can be clearly seen with cryptic initials that remain undecipherable to this observer.
Taken together with the two other series of four, they are all near the main campus of Harvard College. Is this a last gasp attempt to expose the Communist takeover of American Universities? Considering how badly the CIA and the FBI have been compromised are freedom lovers and democracy lovers trying to survive with the help of democracy's only friend left, the United Kingdom? Can James Bond do it? Is 007 up to the task?

Mass Avenue Near Harvard Law School, Cambridge MA USA.




Mass Avenue Near Harvard Law School, Cambridge MA USA.



These four secret communications by open code on the streets of Cambridge MA were spray painted at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Bow Street.




Massachusetts Avenue and Bow Street



Massachusetts Avenue and Bow Street



Massachusetts Avenue and Bow Street




This secret message appears approaching Mass Avenue at Mount Auburn Street.


This message appears on Putnam Avenue near Mass Avenue, Mount Auburn Street.



This message is on Mount Auburn Street at the intersection with Putnam Avenue.



This one is on Mass Avenue just above Trowbridge Street

How Old is Grandma?

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandmother about current events.
The grandson asked his grandmother what she thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general..




The Grandmother replied, "Well, let me think a minute, I was born before:
' television
' penicillin
' polio shots
' frozen foods
' Xerox
' contact lenses
' Frisbees and
' the pill
There were no:
' credit cards
' laser beams or
' ball-point pens
Man had not invented:
' pantyhose
' air conditioners
' dishwashers
' clothes dryers
' and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and
' man hadn't yet walked on the moon




Your Grandfather and I got married first, .. .... ... and then lived together..
Every family had a father and a mother.
Until I was 25, I called every man older than me, "Sir".
And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title, "Sir."
We were before gay-rights, computer- dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy.
Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense.
We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions.
Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger privilege...
We thought fast food was what people ate during Lent.
Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins.
Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the evening breeze started.
Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends-not purchasing condominiums.




We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.
We listened to Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President's speeches on our radios.
And I don't ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey.
If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan' on it, it was junk
The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam....
Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and instant coffee were unheard of.
We had 5 &10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents.
Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a Pepsi were all a nickel.
And if you didn't want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.
You could buy a new Ford Coupe for $600, . .. . but who could afford one?
Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.
In my day:
' "grass" was mowed,
' "coke" was a cold drink,
' "pot" was something your mother cooked in and
' "rock music" was your grandmother's lullaby.
' "Aids" were helpers in the Principal's office,
' "chip" meant a piece of wood,
' "hardware" was found in a hardware store and
' "software" wasn't even a word.




And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby.
No wonder people call us "old and confused" and say there is a generation gap, or from the archives.
How old do you think I am?

This woman would be only 59 years old.

WISHING YOU LOVE IN YOUR HEART...
PEACE IN YOUR SOUL..
AND JOY IN YOUR LIFE.....
ALWAYS...

New Communications Technology

[From article]
"There was no Internet or blogosphere in 1995; Fox News Channel didn't start until October 1996; talk radio was in its infancy, with Rush Limbaugh already an important national voice but with few other conservative hosts on the air."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_we_re_not_hearing_train_wreck_haKqJJE0rZXSAyaVVGtvoL

Why we're not hearing 'train wreck'
By MICHAEL BARONE
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:25 AM, March 3, 2011
Posted: 9:32 PM, March 2, 2011

Baby Crib, Reason 347

Here is reason 347 why Americans are overweight. They no longer need to rock their baby's crib. High tech cribs now come with a remote control.

Pigeon Impossible

A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase. www.pigeonimpossible.com

ENOUGH ROOM TV APRIL 4, 2000 Roy Bercaw Host

Roy Bercaw discusses the New Cambridge City website, Kai Bashir, ESB, Telepathic Thoughts, Jose Delgado, Technology, Mental Coercion, BIO, Biodevastation, Genetically Modified Fish, Criticizing Police, NYPD, Harvard University motto, Cambridge Historic Commission, Harry Cobb, Knafel Center, CGIS, David Zawinski, KSG, Jane Acre, Steve Wilson, Bovine Growth Hormone, Monsanto, Posilac.

Technology Gives Terrorists Advantage

Technology Gives Criminals and Terrorists Advantage


"Fox News: The terrorists carried handheld GPS navigators, satellite phones, BlackBerrys and data CDs containing detailed maps and Google Earth images of where they were going." These are are consumer devices that are well-known to most tech savvy citizens. But there are more sophisticated devices using advanced technology which are used for military anti personnel weapons on unsuspecting civilians for nefarious purposes. Unless there is widespread harm journalists ignore these abuses of individuals. Local police are clueless about these technologies and how to curb criminal use on civilians. This story is less than the tip of the iceberg.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,461084,00.html

and

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120203519.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/5d8tvy

Gunmen Used Technology as A Tactical Tool
Mumbai Attackers Had GPS Units, Satellite Maps
By Emily Wax
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Page A01

ENOUGH ROOM TV SEP 28 1999 Part 1 of 2

Roy Bercaw discusses MCAD Sued by White EWmployees, Allen Funt, Candid Camera, Technology, Obedience to Authority, Psychology, Genetically Modified Food, Paul Cellucci, Margaret Marshal, Governor's Council, Harvard University, Citizens for Individual Rights.

ENOUGH ROOM TV AUG 3 1999 Part 3 of 3

Roy Bercaw discusses Joyce Brothers, Anti Depressants, Gene Therapy, Legalizing Drugs, Psychiatric Drugs, ADD, Ritalin, WHO, Peter Breggin, Technology, Rape, "Me Generation," EPA, Breaking up.

TASERs Proliferating

In this clip from the TV show Cheaters, a private security guard uses a TASER on a man caught cheating on his wife. During the confrontation the man argues with the parking lot private security guard. The guard shoots the man. His wife does not know what happened to him. The Cheaters detective threatens him with another shot.
Here is an example of how technology designed for law enforcement purposes is not only abused by the police, but also by private persons who are not as strictly trained. Usually when the police use a TASER the victim is examined by an EMT or brought to a hospital. In this case the man just drives off.