two tins or bottles of coke, shake one, roll them down a ramp (i.e. lift a table a bit on one side)
which one will run faster?
I would guess S^3 is at play, but have not done extensive research. For others (SPOILER ALERT):
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphysics.umd.edu%2Flecdem%2Fservices%2Frefs_scanned_WIP%2F3%2520-%2520Vinit's%2520LECDEM%2FD202%2F4%2FPTE000290.pdf&ei=XX6yUriWD-m0yAGvxoCADw&usg=AFQjCNGIBnfxSX2xGAJ0M01J9P6LmIAufw&bvm=bv.58187178,d.aWc&cad=rja
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http://vafaburg.com/2013/12/22/taking-a-closer-look-at-badbios/
Sun Dec 29 2013 12:55:14 EST from Sig @ UncensoredCogent analysis of badBIOS claims made so far:
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http://vafaburg.com/2013/12/22/taking-a-closer-look-at-badbios/
having a look at the NSA catalogue, it seems more then just possible.
(sorry article in german but clickeable image maps with english product descriptions)
so this seems to be the standard toolkit deployed to this guy.
I guess you can search him somewhere in quantanamo or so nowadays.
"A common theme that is present throughout the first-hand reports of badBIOS operation, is the assumption that the malware exists. "
Heh. Love it. :)
I think that if this were an NSA initiative, Asshole would have leaked it by now. It's becoming clear that there isn't a hell of a lot that he didn't have access to, and this has supposedly been going on for years, long enough that something should have been briefed to someone. The desire to gloat about one's capabilities in PowerPoint seems to be a universal corporate phenomenon, and in an era of tightening budgets all over, I can't see not trumpeting something like this to higher echelons.
Tue Dec 31 2013 12:51:39 EST from Sig @ UncensoredThe article makes a pretty good point that while any of those things are within the realm of the possible, all of them combined are pretty ridiculous. People are spooked by stuxnet and recent NSA disclosures, but NSA isn't full of magic wizards. The realm of the possible is greater than we know, but it's not infinite.
I think that if this were an NSA initiative, Asshole would have leaked it by now. It's becoming clear that there isn't a hell of a lot that he didn't have access to, and this has supposedly been going on for years, long enough that something should have been briefed to someone. The desire to gloat about one's capabilities in PowerPoint seems to be a universal corporate phenomenon, and in an era of tightening budgets all over, I can't see not trumpeting something like this to higher echelons.
you didn't read the spiegel article i've posted?
they have tiny chips which if you iluminate a room with radar waves modulate their data on. (which is exactly what those wave pics are about in your article)
these data pcbs are about the size of the plug from the USB-Cable, batery usage is less a concern then battery self discharging.
they have those to put inside monitor cables (red signal...) so they live inside the shield stone.
Viruses overwriting motheboard or hdd bioses are also readily available able to understand vfat, ntfs and ext3.
and, none of that is science fiction, that catalogue is from 2009.
I think that if this were an NSA initiative, Asshole would have leaked
it by now.
Mark Zuckerburg doesn't have access to all NSA initiatives ... only the ones involving surveillance of his site.
I was addressing the all-powerful badBIOS again, sorry; that wasn't clear.
From a psychological point of view, this badbios denial is funny. All these years the tin foil hatters claimed "they" are watching us all, everywhere. Now Snowden actually leaked that they do and how they do it and yet the next tinfoil hatter is mocked about because he has this ridiculous claim about a malware doing all kind of crazy stuff, which noone believes any of "them" could actually be making. Because it is too complicated, resource intensive, hard to achieve or whatever.
Now I do understand perfectly well that it is a logical fallacy to assume badbois is true because the total surveillance seems to be true. But then again, I despise skeptics more than complete nutters. ;)
Sat Jan 04 2014 07:04:26 PM EST from the_mgt @ Uncensored...
Now I do understand perfectly well that it is a logical fallacy to assume badbois is true because the total surveillance seems to be true. But then again, I despise skeptics more than complete nutters. ;)
Future take on dealing with a nutter. Just take him at face value and investigate all his hardware at a microscopic level ala:
http://visual6502.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_reverse_engineering_process
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5miMbqYB4E
Should be easy enough to root out the culprit hardware for the "bug" :-)
Yes, thats exactly what I was wondering: Why all the remote crystal-balling, why don't they drive over to his lab and get their hands dirty. Or have him come over.
I still think it is an elaborate prank by his lab staff.