..01 February 2005 Aljazeera has been voted the world's fifth most influential brand in a poll of branding professionals that gave the top slot to US iPod and computer icon Apple.
_________________________ _____________________ LondonReviewofBooks I heard the president’s mother say: ‘Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?’
I heard that, in the last year alone, the US had fired 127 tons of depleted uranium (DU) munitions in Iraq, the radioactive equivalent of approximately ten thousand Nagasaki bombs. I heard that the widespread use of DU in the first Gulf War was believed to be the primary cause of the health problems suffered by its 580,400 veterans, of whom 467 were wounded during the war itself. Ten years later, 11,000 were dead and 325,000 on medical disability. DU carried in semen led to high rates of endometriosis in their wives and girlfriends, often requiring hysterectomies. Of soldiers who had healthy babies before the war, 67 per cent of their postwar babies were born with severe defects, including missing legs, arms, organs or eyes.
_________________________ _________________ Kellogg Brown & Root .. provides food, mail, telephones and other basic services to US troops in Iraq - submitted an estimate.. $16 billion.. $100,000 per soldier Astounding how the US people have willingly handed their country to a cult of 9 men, (+ Condi) who are handing their taxes to the Veeps firm, and are about to hand their pensions to other thieves No reason to expect higher standards than Enrons perfidy. Deficit devaluation, death. The USAnian population, in its illeducated ignorance, has thrown away their preeminence fo an absurd farrago of vicious follies. [ps. Is KBR involved in sodomy involving breakfast cereal?] _________________________ _______________ RFID car keys 40 bit crypto easily broken... 29Jan05 Matthew Green Johns Hopkins U Jan. 29 cracked the "immobilizer" systems from Texas I.. millions of Fords, Toyotas and Nissans. ..to steal a car ..a moment next to the car owner to extract data from the key, less than an hour of computing, and a few minutes to break in, feed the key code to the car and hot-wire it. ..The implications..go beyond stealing cars. RFID systems deduct highway tolls from drivers' accounts and restrict access..
Aviel D. Rubin..three graduate students.. exposed flaws in electronic voting systems and wireless computer networks. ..The "immobilizer" .. an enormous success. TI..150 million keys..chip can do is restricted by ..it has no power..electromagnetic field from the car's transmitter. a tag reader..for $280..a general diagram on the Internet, from the ..German division.. ..a relatively short..key..If..40-bit keys, you'd immediately conclude that the system is weak..Ari Juels..RSA Security, which financed the team.... ..challenge and response... tried to duplicate the response by testing 1,099,511,627,776 possible keys. Once they had the right key, they could answer future challenges correctly. ..Mr. Sabetti of TI ..grabbing the code from a key would be very difficult..short broadcast range..12 inches..with large antennas .. cost of equipment several hundred dollars, Dr. Rubin said.. Adam Stubblefield.. the entire attack could be done with a device the size of an iPod." The TI chips.. used in millions of the Speedpass tags.. to buy gasoline at ExxonMobil stations .. .. .. they can buy gas with a cracked code.. .. RSA Security..is developing RFID tags that resist unauthorized eavesdropping.. people could block eavesdroppers by keeping the key or Speedpass token in a tinfoil sheath ..
The equipment needed to capture the data required to clone a DST tag at close range. From left, a microreader, a laptop, and a serial cable
_________________________ _______________________- ..DNA data traces the origin of four major bat lineages to a brief period in the Eocene Epoch when the average global temperature rose by about 7°C. ..bats originated inLaurasia..bats split away .. the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. (google ocean burp)
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..01 February 2005 Aljazeera has been voted the world's fifth most influential brand in a poll of branding professionals that gave the top slot to US iPod and computer icon Apple.
The equipment needed to capture the data required to clone a DST tag at close range. From left, a microreader, a laptop, and a serial cable