tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831516114336983238.post6763707223664499403..comments2024-03-23T04:19:40.135-07:00Comments on Antifascist Calling...: Hackable Drones, Crumbling EmpireAntifascisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421707682211445550noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831516114336983238.post-50220905901018868312010-01-04T06:26:00.808-08:002010-01-04T06:26:00.808-08:00You are so far off base that you aren't even w...You are so far off base that you aren't even wrong. If you want to learn what a responsible professional, non-military/industrial complex expert thinks about this, read Bruce Schneier's analysis at<br />http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/intercepting_pr.html<br /><br />"The naive reaction is to ridicule the military. " That would be you.<br /><br />"Additionally, how valuable is this video downlink is to the enemy? The primary fear seems to be that the militants watch the video, notice their compound being surveilled and flee before the missiles hit. Or notice a bunch of Marines walking through a recognizable area and attack them. This might make a great movie scene, but it's not very realistic. Without context, and just by peeking at random video streams, the risk caused by eavesdropping is low.<br /><br />Contrast this with the additional risks if you encrypt: A soldier in the field doesn't have access to the real-time video because of a key management failure; a UAV can't be quickly deployed to a new area because the keys aren't in place; we can't share the video information with our allies because we can't give them the keys; most soldiers can't use this technology because they don't have the right clearances. Given this risk analysis, not encrypting the video is almost certainly the right decision."<br /><br />I'm no fan of the empire, but uninformed hyperbole is not helpful.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04068965865577932195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831516114336983238.post-17373477215875891022010-01-01T11:04:38.931-08:002010-01-01T11:04:38.931-08:00All judges in America are fully vested in their re...All judges in America are fully vested in their retirement portfolios, automatically.<br /><br />All judges in America, therefore, retire on the trade/exchange of flesh.<br /><br />Begin right here at home simply demanding 100% transparency of the judges in their retirement portfolios - a forensic economics.<br /><br />When these defenders of the US Constitution are sued for their investments in anti-America, then and only then are we to see justice prevail.<br /><br />http://galeria.blogs.com/godsmadmen/rkellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14905639468036911076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831516114336983238.post-14836761638655220072009-12-27T05:45:05.624-08:002009-12-27T05:45:05.624-08:00"Singer touts the ability of the aircraft to ...<i>"Singer touts the ability of the aircraft to "recognize and categorize human and human-made objects."</i><br /><br />As the saying goes,"yeah, right." This is a particularly interesting, likely bullshittery, claim in light of <a href="http://www.playboy.com/articles/the-man-who-conned-the-pentagon-dennis-montgomery/index.html?page=5" rel="nofollow">this:</a><br /><br /><i>ETreppid landed its first big contract from General Electric in 2002 for use of its video compression technology in gaming surveillance. The company eventually got a contract with the Air Force dealing with aspects of video shot by unmanned Predator drones. Montgomery claimed his software could automatically recognize weapons and faces. In 2004 the U.S. Special Operations Command gave eTreppid a $30 million no-bid contract for “compression” and “automatic target recognition.”</i>We are told the Pentagon was "conned." Actually, the Pentagon got exactly what it was looking for, as did the Bush regime in general.<br /><br />And these days, as you have pointed out, accurate and reliable function is hardly the concern of a crumbling empire, which finds now itself primarily concerned with pretense, self-enrichment, and ego.theBhchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14822148672764530941noreply@blogger.com