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Beyond High Tech Discussions - 12160 2015-07-29T02:05:47Z http://12160.info/groups/group/forum?groupUrl=beyond-high-tech&feed=yes&xn_auth=no British spaceship engine like 'Star Trek spaceship engine ' - could get people to the Moon in FOUR hours tag:12160.info,2015-07-29:2649739:Topic:1578577 2015-07-29T01:39:52.719Z HwΩΩd♪ http://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
British spaceship engine like 'Star Trek impulse drive' - could get people to the Moon in FOUR hours

20:34, 28 JULY…

British spaceship engine like 'Star Trek impulse drive' - could get people to the Moon in FOUR hours

20:34, 28 JULY 2015

BY ALEX WELLMAN

The EM Drive, which has been compared to technology featured on the Starship Enterprise was developed almost 15 years by British boffin Roger Shawyer

 To go boldly: The drive has been compared to the one on the starship Enterprise

Flying to the moon could take just FOUR hours thanks to a British invention that uses solar power to produce thrust.

The EM Drive, which has been compared to the impulse drive in Star Trek, was developed almost 15 years by British boffin Roger Shawyer but was originally mocked as being impossible.

Experts at NASA have since climbed down and admitted they believe it works while a scientist in Germany has been able to show how the invention produces thrust.

Martin Tajmar, professor and chair for Space Systems at the Dresden University of Technology, presented his work at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics' Propulsion and Energy Forum, saying: "Our test campaign cannot confirm or refute the claims of the EM Drive but intends to independently assess possible side-effects in the measurements methods used so far.

"Nevertheless, we do observe thrust close to the actual predictions after eliminating many possible error sources that should warrant further investigation into the phenomena.

 Invention: The EM Drive propulsion engine is thought to be possible

"Our measurements reveal thrusts as expected from previous claims after carefully studying thermal and electromagnetic interferences.

"If true, this could certainly revolutionise space travel."

It is believed the EM Drive works by using solar power to generate multiple microwaves that are held in an enclosed chamber and move back and forth.

Basically, the drive converts electrical energy into thrust without the need for rocket fuel.

NASA
 Travel: If correct, the EM Drive could get people to the moon in four hours

Dr Harold White at the Johnson Space Center has also done theoretical testing on the invention and thinks it could work

According to the website Hacked: "White proposes that the EM Drive's thrust is due to virtual particles in the quantum vacuum that behave like propellant ions in magneto-hydrodynamical propulsion systems, extracting "fuel" from the very fabric of space-time and eliminating the need to carry propellant."

The EM Drive has been compared to the Impulse Drive on board the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek, but continues to baffle experts as it goes against the principles of physics that state if something is moving forward there must be a force pushing in the other direction.

The Mirror

 7 Popular Devices That Spy On You Without Your Permission tag:12160.info,2015-07-21:2649739:Topic:1577351 2015-07-21T06:19:29.386Z DTOM http://12160.info/profile/DTOM

7 Popular Devices That Spy On You Without Your Permission

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai in Technology …

7 Popular Devices That Spy On You Without Your Permission

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai in Technology

http://yournewswire.com/7-popular-devices-that-spy-on-you-without-your-permission/

Did you know the seven electronic devices listed below are as much a security threat to you as a hacker who can read your emails and access your phone?

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking them to look at technology from the likes of Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others, citing the "always on" technology as being "worrisome".

Yahoo Finance report:

EPIC fears the average consumer isn't aware that some of these devices are actually spying on them by recording their conversations even when the device seems to be turned off. The privacy implications of these devices, which they believe infringe on individual rights, is profound.

The companies say the devices are only engaged in "conversation" when triggered by a "hotword" or a certain gesture. However, those designs can't be counted on to always work as planned and could cause accidental recordings.

If you're worried about your privacy, here's a list from EPIC that can help you audit your chances of staying anonymous.

Google Chrome

The browser is reportedly able to remotely install code that allows the software to listen to users without their knowledge. The code was originally designed to support Chrome's new "OK, Google" hotword detection, which activates a computer response when you talk to it. However, some users claim the code was installed and activated on their computers without them giving their permission.

Google responded to these complaints on its Chromium developer boards. "While we do download the hotword module on startup, we do not activate it unless you opt in to hotwording," the company wrote. Some developers question this claim.

Samsung SmartTV

The Samsung SmartTV has a built-in microphone that is equipped with voice recognition technology that allows users to give verbal commands to the TV. In order for Samsung to convert your speech to text, the voice commands are sent over the Internet to a third-party for interpretation.

However, since the TV is "always on," the microphone is recording every word you're saying at all times. Even in its SmartTV privacy policy, Samsung acknowledges that all spoken words, including personal or other sensitive information, are sent unencrypted to the third party.

Nest Cam

This Internet-streaming home security camera is a product of Nest Labs, which is now owned by Google. The camera comes with a microphone and streams video and sound directly to a consumer's smart phone in real time. With the Nest "Aware" app, Google can record and save up to 30 days of video and audio.

Using the recording, the camera has the ability to alert users when an "unusual sound" is detected. Nest has the capability of distinguishing between unknown or known voices, which is an important security feature. But privacy advocates are fearful because the company does not disclose how the technology works or how much information the company collects.

Canary Connect

Canary Connect is another company that develops Internet-connected home security systems. The security device can store audio and video recordings from inside a user's home for 90 days and can be set to one of three modes — "armed," "disarmed" and "privacy." Unless the device is in "privacy" mode, it will automatically begin to record when triggered by motion.

Users have complained that there isn't an easy way to determine what mode the device is in. In addition, the interface doesn't notify consumers when it is switching modes.

Microsoft's Kinect

Microsoft has installed its "always on" voice and motion recorder, called Kinect, in its Xbox videogame consoles. When users say the word "Xbox," the Kinect tracks and records the users' voice and hand gestures in order to follow commands. In order for the device to know when to turn on, the console monitors conversations at all times.

Amazon Echo

Amazon Echo, like other voice-activated computer programs, is triggered awake by the word "Alexa." The device is constantly listening in on household conversations for the word, which then triggers the system to record and stream the recording to Amazon's cloud for processing and storage. Amazon has not revealed what data the system collects and if it saves conversations or words said before "Alexa." In addition, various companies are in the process of incorporating Alexa into their Internet-connected devices. Amazon has not revealed how much information it will have access to once these other companies begin to collect their own data.

Mattel's "Hello Barbie"

A new high-tech Barbie has sparked a furious outcry from the advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. Through a Wi-Fi connection and a built-in microphone, the new Barbie is able to hold conversations with a child. Critics, in addition to the privacy concerns, are worried that Mattel is exploiting the children and using them for financial gain because they can learn the child's likes and dislikes. Mattel counters that there are safety precautions put in place and that the toy fills a niche for children who want to be able to speak with their Barbie.

 FBI Director: Government Must Have Access To Your Encrypted Data tag:12160.info,2015-07-17:2649739:Topic:1576453 2015-07-17T23:25:08.367Z HwΩΩd♪ http://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d

The director of the FBI doesn't want you to use technology to encrypt your personal data. He said that for your safety the feds should have unrestricted access to everything you store in a cloud or a hard drive, write in an e-mail, or send in a text. Security, he says, trumps…

The director of the FBI doesn't want you to use technology to encrypt your personal data. He said that for your safety the feds should have unrestricted access to everything you store in a cloud or a hard drive, write in an e-mail, or send in a text. Security, he says, trumps privacy. Besides, only a criminal has something to hide.

Actually, what FBI Director James Comey told the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee is that in order to stay a step ahead of the bad guys, the g-men should have access to any available technology to decode encrypted data. And that the government should be the arbiter of when decryption is necessary or not.

Comey made these statements during testimony he gave as part of a panel of "experts" called to speak at a hearing labelled "Going Dark: Encryption, Technology, and the Balance Between Public Safety and Privacy."

Tech specialists warn, however, that giving the FBI such access would necessarily open doors to data that could be exploited by "bad actors."

Comey isn't persuaded. "It is clear that governments across the world, including those of our closest allies, recognize the serious public safety risks if criminals can plan and undertake illegal acts without fear of detection," he told the committee.

Once again, the agents of the autocracy are demanding that Americans sacrifice individual liberty on the altar of "national security." That's nowhere made clearer than in the following question posed by Comey: "Are we comfortable with technical design decisions that result in barriers to obtaining evidence of a crime?"

But Jacob Sullum asked in a blog posted by Reason, "Are we comfortable with forcing technical design decisions that make sensitive information more readily available to people with ill intent, including people who happen to work for the government?"

Of course, Comey does pay passing respect to the "requirements and safeguards of the laws and the Constitution." But then again, the NSA and the dozen or so other federal agencies involved in erecting the Panopticon always find a constitutional pretext for their deprivations of freedom.

The fact is, the feds really believe (or claim to believe) that they have this power. As Comey explained, "We are not asking to expand the Government's surveillance authority, but rather we are asking to ensure that we can continue to obtain electronic information and evidence pursuant to the legal authority that Congress has provided to us to keep America safe."

See? They don't want to violate your most cherished civil liberties, but they have to in order to keep you safe.

The problem is that Comey doesn't see himself, his agents, or any of the other servants of the surveillance state as being the source of our danger.

The NSA, FBI, IRS, DHS, and others cannot claim to be chasing terrorists on the one hand and yet admit to conducting dragnet surveillance of every electronic communication of every American on the other. Consider just a few examples of the attitude accelerating the growth of the surveillance state in America.

The IRS insists that its agents do not need a warrant to read "taxpayers'" e-mails.

According to documents obtained from the IRS as a result of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the tax-collecting/data mining behemoth believes that Americans have "generally no privacy" when it comes to the information included in any electronic communication from e-mail to Facebook chats and direct messages exchanged on Twitter.

These forms of communication, they claim, are not protected by the expectation of privacy granted to other aspects of their personal lives; thus, IRS agents need not petition a judge for the right to snoop into the content of these communications.

How about more traditional forms of communication? The government has those covered (and catalogued) too.

A story in the New York Times published in July 2013 tells the story of Buffalo, New York, resident Leslie James Pickering. Pickering reports that in September of the previous year he noticed "something odd in his mail": a "handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay special attention to the letters and packages sent to his home," theTimesstory claims.

The card — a picture of which is included in the Times article — appears to read: "Show all mail to supv [supervisor] for copying prior to going out on the street." Pickering's name was written on the card, as well as the word "Confidential," written in green ink. Apparently, Pickering was the unwitting target of a "longtime surveillance system" the Times calls "mail covers."

It doesn't stop there, however. While snail mail surveillance has been a tool of law enforcement for over a century, the program that targeted Pickering is called Mail Isolation Control and Tracking. As part of this surveillance tactic, the "Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces every year. It is not known how long the government saves the images."

The federal government is even watching our terrestrial comings and goings. As The New Americanreported in 2013:

The U.S. government exercises control over a massive and technologically advanced camera-based surveillance system that has the capacity to keep the urban population of this country under the watchful eye of government 24 hours a day.

TrapWire is the name of this network of cameras and other surveillance tools. Unlike other elements of the central government's cybersurveillance program, word about TrapWire was not leaked by Obama administration insiders. The details of this nearly unbelievable surveillance scheme were made public by WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group founded by Julian Assange.

Exactly what is TrapWire? According to one description of the program, from the online Russia Today:

Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the United States under the radar of most Americans, according to e-mails hacked by Anonymous.

Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence.

As with so many of the federal government's unconstitutional efforts at placing each and every citizen of the United States under the never-blinking eye of those who consider themselves our caretakers, TrapWire is sold as being a necessary weapon in the War on Terror.

So, while FBI Director Comey insists that giving the government the key to decoding our encrypted data is the best way to keep us safe from alleged criminals, he ignores the fact that the known criminals in Washington, D.C. pose a far clearer and more pressing danger to our liberty than any supposed "terrorist" keeping his data securely hidden from the agents of the surveillance state.

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
 Some Apple Watch Users Are Reporting Skin Burns And Irritation Upon Use tag:12160.info,2015-07-13:2649739:Topic:1575276 2015-07-13T01:20:22.475Z HwΩΩd♪ http://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d

The Apple Watch was launched back in April, with the company …

The Apple Watch was launched back in April, with the company receiving one million pre-orders. However, delivering the watch into the hands (or wrists) of the people who ordered was a problem,taking months for the company to finally ship the product.

But now that the watch has reached some of the people who bought them, another drawback has surfaced: a number of users are reporting painful looking rashes on the skin, and the watch was allegedly also inflicting burns upon use.

A report from Fusion stated that Paula Cerutti, during her workout expressed that she started to feel a burning sensation on her wrist. She then thought that the Apple Watch Sport she owned was strapped on too tightly, so she reportedly started loosening the strap's grip.

The night after, she was surprised to find bubbling blisters on her skin, right on the spot where she felt the sensation, and where she wore her Apple Watch. The watch reputedly was also hot to the touch.

She took the issue to Twitter, and posted a picture, stating that Apple wasn't very helpful when she reported the matter.

Other people as well have joined Cerutti in ranting about rashes and burns online. It is still unknown to some if the device itself is giving them the burns on the skin, or just because of friction produced by the rubber strap of the said wearable.

Apple reportedly declined to comment about the issue. Nonetheless, it seems that the matter has already been tackled on the Apple Watch support website, which said irritation that may be felt within use may probably be due to allergies with the materials of the watch, as well as a poor fit on the wrist.

Back in August of last year, a related issue came up, regarding the LG G Watch. The same sensations on the skin were reported, and an over-the-air update was sent to owners of the watch to eliminate the issue.

Justin Luna
 Massive Cyber Attack May Be Under Way: NYSE Halts Trading, FAA Grounds United Airlines tag:12160.info,2015-07-08:2649739:Topic:1573806 2015-07-08T18:44:06.834Z HwΩΩd♪ http://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
Massive Cyber Attack May Be Under Way: NYSE Halts Trading, FAA Grounds United Airlines

Technical glitches this morning are raising homeland security concerns. Though it is not yet clear if the events are related, two separate technical incidents have led to problems in the computer systems that control stock market trading on the NYSE and automation on airlines owned by United.

At 11:30 AM Eastern time the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) halted trading…

Massive Cyber Attack May Be Under Way: NYSE Halts Trading, FAA Grounds United Airlines

Technical glitches this morning are raising homeland security concerns. Though it is not yet clear if the events are related, two separate technical incidents have led to problems in the computer systems that control stock market trading on the NYSE and automation on airlines owned by United.

At 11:30 AM Eastern time the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) halted trading after reports that a "technical issue" was causing problems with the normal flow of trade.

The exchange said in a statement that it was experiencing a "technical issue" that it was working to resolve as quickly as possible.

"We're currently experiencing a technical issue that we're working to resolve as quickly as possible," a spokeswoman for the NYSE said in a statement. "We will be providing further updates as soon as we can, and are doing our utmost to produce a swift resolution, communicate thoroughly and transparently, and ensure a timely and orderly market re-open."

Before trading was halted, U.S. indexes were lower as investors worried about China's ability to stem a stock market slide. (ABC News)

An hour prior to the NYSE being taken offline the Federal Aviation Commission (FAA) halted flights of all United Airlines passenger airliners across the United States, citing similar problems as the NYSE.

United Airlines flights were temporarily halted nationwide this morning after the FAA said a computer glitch — something it called "automation issues" — forced planes to be grounded.

The FAA's Air traffic Control System Command Center reported that planes have been grounded at all airports, although the system slowly returned back to normal.

United Airlines, which is based in Chicago, said, "We experienced a network connectivity issue this morning. We are working to resolve this and apologize to our customers for any inconvenience." (ABC News)

According to law enforcement officials and representatives from United, the problems were not the result of a hacking issue. The New York Stock Exchange is still halted as of this writing and no specific reason for the outage has been provided.

Department of Homeland Security officials have yet to speak on the matter, and it is not clear if the events have officially been tied together or if they are being treated as separate incidents.

It could be a coincidence, but should America ever come under a widespread cyber attack it might look just like what we are seeing this morning, with critical systems in a variety of industries being attack nearly simultaneously.

In 2013 outgoing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that a cyber attack on the United States is imminent and that a coordinated attack could leave Americans scrambling for supplies if hackers targeted transportation and commerce systems, both of which appear to be having problems this morning.

Though a cyber attack remains a distinct possibility with officials keeping it hush-hush so as to prevent widespread panic, another possibility is that an entity, whether foreign or domestic, is testing cyber-based weapons.

Last year it was speculated that Russian bombers off America's west coast may have been responsible for regional problems that led to a total crash of the LAX air traffic control system, but an official statement from the military indicated it was caused by the flyover of a U.S.-owned spy plane.

The Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged that gaping holes exist in America's cyber infrastructure and security engineers have confirmed that taking America offline would not be a very difficult task to accomplish:

If you think that our multi-billion dollar electrical power grids are secure and capable of withstanding a coordinated attack, think again.

According to one group of engineers, the grid is so vulnerable that it wouldn't even require a skilled hacker to compromise. In fact, when Adam Crain and Chris Sistrunk decided to test some new software they were developing they identified a vulnerability so serious that it could literally blind operational controllers to such an extent that they would be locked out of monitoring systems and unable to maintain grid integrity.

The consequences, according to the engineers who note they are in no way security specialists, could be a total downing of the national power grid with nodes across the nation being taken over all at once. Moreover, the same systems used to maintain the U.S. power grid are also being used in other industries, like water treatment facilities.

Source: Massive Vulnerability Detected In National Power Grids: "There Is No Way to Stop This"

In response to the possible threat of a takeover or downing of America's power and cyber grids, President Obama signed an Executive Order earlier this year authorizing the government to seize all physical equipment and virtual nodes in the event of a cyber emergency.

Such an emergency would probably start like what we saw this morning, with critical industries being taken down one-by-one.

This report is developing and will be updated as new information becomes available…

Mac Slavo
 Cellphone Companies Receive Hundreds Of Millions Of Your Tax Dollars To Spy On You tag:12160.info,2015-07-08:2649739:Topic:1573778 2015-07-08T12:16:45.611Z HwΩΩd♪ http://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
Cellphone Companies Receive Hundreds Of Millions Of Your Tax Dollars To Spy On You

We already know the cost to freedom brought about by domestic spying. To add insult to injury, phone surveillance has become a multimillion-dollar business, with telecommunication giants reaping taxpayer money as they readily hand over your personal…

Cellphone Companies Receive Hundreds Of Millions Of Your Tax Dollars To Spy On You

We already know the cost to freedom brought about by domestic spying. To add insult to injury, phone surveillance has become a multimillion-dollar business, with telecommunication giants reaping taxpayer money as they readily hand over your personal information.

The sickening version of supply and demand is made possible by the entrenchment of corporatism in America, coupled with a blaring disregard for law. As telecoms enjoy raking in your extorted money, they rest easy in the state's guarantee of immunity, knowing that people have no recourse against the violation of Constitutional rights.

This latest information on financial dealings between agencies and telecoms appears to be from 2013, but we can only assume that these figures have increased since then.

The reason we have no more recent data is that it's a secret. When the 2013 documents were leaked, exposing the hundreds of millions given to telecom companies, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a scathing letter calling the leak "reprehensible," and said that its disclosure poses a risk to national security.

The average law enforcement telephone wiretap costs $50,000, which is put into context by the fact that Verizon alone gets 250,000 requests a year.

Verizon charges the government $775 for the first month, then $500 for each month after. At this rate, it stands to make almost $200 million a year just by saying yes to all of the wiretap requests.

With revenue like this, it's no wonder that telecom companies never hesitated in joining with the surveillance state after 9/11.
 Despite It Being Ruled Illegal, Barry's Secret Court Just Let The NSA Keep Spying On Your Phone tag:12160.info,2015-07-08:2649739:Topic:1573583 2015-07-08T00:50:18.261Z HwΩΩd♪ http://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
Despite It Being Ruled Illegal, Barry's Secret Court Just Let The NSA Keep Spying On Your Phone

Another 4th of July has come and gone, and another president has demonstrated that the idea of freedom under American democracy is an illusion. The Foreign…

Despite It Being Ruled Illegal, Barry's Secret Court Just Let The NSA Keep Spying On Your Phone

Another 4th of July has come and gone, and another president has demonstrated that the idea of freedom under American democracy is an illusion. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, at the request of President Sotero, ruled on June 29th that the National Security Agency (NSA) can resume its massive domestic spying program—in spite of judicial and legislative action to stop it.

The FISA court said that it "respectfully disagrees" with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in its ruling that NSA's spy program is illegal, and believes that the public court has no controlling precedent for the secret FISA court.

On May 7th the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled that the PATRIOT Act did not authorize the bulk collection of Americans' phone records, and thus has no lawful basis. The Bush and Obama administration claimed that the FBI's ability to collect domestic business data meant that the NSA could pursue its domestic spying, but Judge Gerald Lynch was having none of it.

"Such expansive development of government repositories of formerly private records would be an unprecedented contraction of the privacy expectations of all Americans. We would expect such a momentous decision to be preceded by substantial debate, and expressed in unmistakable language. There is no evidence of such a debate."

Sadly, moral and logical debate is no longer part of the process, especially when it comes to the sanctified realm of "security." Privacy is readily swept away under the guise of advancing freedom. Clearly, the same applies to checks and balances.

It is only thanks to Edward Snowden's brave, self-sacrificing act to expose the depth and breadth of NSA domestic spying that we are even witnessing court challenges. When whistleblowers come forward, it pierces the armor of the State and disrupts the narrative of the mainstream media.

This may have been a farce from the start, though, with Obama and Congressional leaders knowing full well the course they could take to defy the public court. Congress included a 180-day grace period before the law applies to NSA, and this is what the FISA court used to justify its opinion:

"Congress deliberately carved out a 180-day period following the date of enactment in which such collection was specially authorized. For this reason, the Court approves the application in this case."

President Sotero's national security chief at the Justice Department, John Carlin, demonstrated the cold authoritarianism that has overtaken the Executive branch since 9/11.

""This court [FISA] may certainly consider ACLU v Clapper as part of its evaluation of the government's application, but second circuit rulings do not constitute controlling precedent for this court," Carlin wrote in the 2 June application. Instead, the government asked the court to rely on its own body of once-secret precedent stretching back to 2006, which Carlin called "the better interpretation of the statute.""

There is no ambiguity here. Secret proceedings by a few people appointed to the job of advancing and rubber-stamping the endless War on Terror reign supreme. They take full precedence over the careful deliberation of public courts and the action of elected representatives.

Justin Gardner
 With This Device You Can Connect Anonymously To Wi-Fi 2.5 Miles Away tag:12160.info,2015-07-04:2649739:Topic:1572500 2015-07-04T01:08:00.132Z HwΩΩd♪ http://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
Anonymity is something that seems next to impossible in this era of government surveillance. Even Tor and VPNs are no longer seem to be enough to protect user privacy. Once your IP address is discovered, your Game Over!

However, a method have been devised that not only allow users to anonymously connect to public Wi-Fi network, but also let them connect from about 2.5 Miles away.

Security researcher Benjamin Caudill has developed a…

Anonymity is something that seems next to impossible in this era of government surveillance. Even Tor and VPNs are no longer seem to be enough to protect user privacy. Once your IP address is discovered, your Game Over!

However, a method have been devised that not only allow users to anonymously connect to public Wi-Fi network, but also let them connect from about 2.5 Miles away.

Security researcher Benjamin Caudill has developed a device that adds an extra layer of anonymity to whistleblowers, journalists, dissidents and, of course, criminals.

ProxyHam, it's a "hardware proxy" that allows users to connect to a long-distance public Wi-Fi network over an unidentifiable low-frequency radio channels, making it more difficult for government agencies and spies to unearth the real identity and source of the Internet traffic.

How Proxyham is made?

Proxyham is comprised of a WiFi-enabled Raspberry Pi computer, along with a three antennas setup. One antenna is used to connect to a source Wi-Fi network at a public place, and the other two antennas are used to transmit the Wi-Fi signal at a 900 MHz frequency.

By relying on a 900 MegaHertz radio connection, ProxyHam effectively connects to a far-away Wi-Fi, with a range of between 1 and 2.5 Miles, depending upon certain interference factors.

Therefore, in case if spies manage to completely trace the target's internet connection, they will find only the IP address of ProxyHam box transmitting a low-level radio signal thousands of feet away in some direction

Caudill tells Motherboard that he and his colleagues are also working to add additional features likeself-destruction to the ProxyHam. Future iterations might be small enough as to fit Proxyham into a book to make it easier to hide.

"If you throw this in a library it would take you years to be able to identify it," Caudill said.

Caudill will unveil this game changer ProxyHam box at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas next month. He will also release the hardware specs, the source code and the blueprint of the device so that anyone can develop their own.

Caudill is planning to sell ProxyHam at cost for $200, "as a service to the community," and he also hopes that he'll be able to drop the price to $150 soon.

Swati Khandelwal

 XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google For The World's Private Communications tag:12160.info,2015-07-02:2649739:Topic:1572179 2015-07-02T04:35:51.965Z HwΩΩd♪ http://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
One of the National Security Agency's most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone's Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse. Today, The Intercept is publishing 48 top-secret and other classified documents about XKEYSCORE dated up to 2013, which shed new light on the breadth, depth and functionality of this critical spy system — one of the largest releases yet of documents provided by NSA…

One of the National Security Agency's most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone's Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse. Today, The Intercept is publishing 48 top-secret and other classified documents about XKEYSCORE dated up to 2013, which shed new light on the breadth, depth and functionality of this critical spy system — one of the largest releases yet of documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The NSA's XKEYSCORE program, first revealed by The Guardian, sweeps up countless people's Internet searches, emails, documents, usernames and passwords, and other private communications. XKEYSCORE is fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from fiber optic cables that make up the backbone of the world's communication network, among other sources, for processing. As of 2008, the surveillance system boasted approximately 150 field sites in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, Nigeria, Somalia, Pakistan, Japan, Australia, as well as many other countries, consisting of over 700 servers.

These servers store "full-take data" at the collection sites — meaning that they captured all of the traffic collected — and, as of 2009, stored content for 3 to 5 days and metadata for 30 to 45 days. NSA documents indicate that tens of billions of records are stored in its database. "It is a fully distributed processing and query system that runs on machines around the world," an NSA briefing on XKEYSCORE says. "At field sites, XKEYSCORE can run on multiple computers that gives it the ability to scale in both processing power and storage."

XKEYSCORE also collects and processes Internet traffic from Americans, though NSA analysts are taught to avoid querying the system in ways that might result in spying on U.S. data. Experts and privacy activists, however, have long doubted that such exclusions are effective in preventing large amounts of American data from being swept up. One document The Intercept is publishing today suggests that FISA warrants have authorized "full-take" collection of traffic from at least some U.S. web forums.

The system is not limited to collecting web traffic. The 2013 document, "VoIP Configuration and Forwarding Read Me," details how to forward VoIP data from XKEYSCORE into NUCLEON, NSA's repository for voice intercepts, facsimile, video and "pre-released transcription." At the time, it supported more than 8,000 users globally and was made up of 75 servers absorbing 700,000 voice, fax, video and tag files per day.

The reach and potency of XKEYSCORE as a surveillance instrument is astonishing. The Guardianreport noted that NSA itself refers to the program as its "widest reaching" system. In February of this year, The Intercept reported that NSA and GCHQ hacked into the internal network of Gemalto, the world's largest provider of cell phone SIM cards, in order to steal millions of encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cell phone communication. XKEYSCORE played a vital role in the spies' hacking by providing government hackers access to the email accounts of Gemalto employees.

Numerous key NSA partners, including Canada, New Zealand and the U.K., have access to the mass surveillance databases of XKEYSCORE. In March, the New Zealand Herald, in partnership with The Intercept, revealed that the New Zealand government used XKEYSCORE to spy on candidates for the position of World Trade Organization director general and also members of the Solomon Islands government.

These newly published documents demonstrate that collected communications not only include emails, chats and web-browsing traffic, but also pictures, documents, voice calls, webcam photos, web searches, advertising analytics traffic, social media traffic, botnet traffic, logged keystrokes, computer network exploitation (CNE) targeting, intercepted username and password pairs, file uploads to online services, Skype sessions and more.

Bulk collection and population surveillance

XKEYSCORE allows for incredibly broad surveillance of people based on perceived patterns of suspicious behavior. It is possible, for instance, to query the system to show the activities of people based on their location, nationality and websites visited. For instance, one slide displays the search "germansinpakistn," showing an analyst querying XKEYSCORE for allindividuals in Pakistan visiting specific German language message boards.

As sites like Twitter and Facebook become increasingly significant in the world's day-to-day communications (a Pew study shows that 71 percent of online adults in the U.S. use Facebook), they become a critical source of surveillance data. Traffic from popular social media sites is described as "a great starting point" for tracking individuals, according to an XKEYSCOREpresentation titled "Tracking Targets on Online Social Networks."

When intelligence agencies collect massive amounts of Internet traffic all over the world, they face the challenge of making sense of that data. The vast quantities collected make it difficult to connect the stored traffic to specific individuals.

Internet companies have also encountered this problem and have solved it by tracking their users with identifiers that are unique to each individual, often in the form of browser cookies. Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store in visitors' browsers. They are used for a variety of purposes, including authenticating users (cookies make it possible to log in to websites), storing preferences, and uniquely tracking individuals even if they're using the same IP address as many other people. Websites also embed code used by third-party services to collect analytics or host ads, which also use cookies to track users. According to one slide, "Almost all websites have cookies enabled."

The NSA's ability to piggyback off of private companies' tracking of their own users is a vital instrument that allows the agency to trace the data it collects to individual users. It makes no difference if visitors switch to public Wi-Fi networks or connect to VPNs to change their IP addresses: the tracking cookie will follow them around as long as they are using the same web browser and fail to clear their cookies.

Apps that run on tablets and smartphones also use analytics services that uniquely track users. Almost every time a user sees an advertisement (in an app or in a web browser), the ad network is tracking users in the same way. A secret GCHQ and CSE program called BADASS, which is similar to XKEYSCORE but with a much narrower scope, mines as much valuable information from leaky smartphone apps as possible, including unique tracking identifiers that app developers use to track their own users. In May of this year, CBC, in partnership with The Intercept, revealed that XKEYSCORE was used to track smartphone connections to the app marketplaces run by Samsung and Google. Surveillance agency analysts also use other types of traffic data that gets scooped into XKEYSCORE to track people, such as Windows crash reports.

In a statement to The Intercept, the NSA reiterated its position that such sweeping surveillance capabilities are needed to fight the War on Terror:

"The U.S. Government calls on its intelligence agencies to protect the United States, its citizens, and its allies from a wide array of serious threats. These threats include terrorist plots from al-Qaeda, ISIL, and others; the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; foreign aggression against the United States and our allies; and international criminal organizations."

Indeed, one of the specific examples of XKEYSCORE applications given in the documents is spying on Shaykh Atiyatallah, an al Qaeda senior leader and Osama bin Laden confidant. A few years before his death, Atiyatallah did what many people have often done: He googled himself. He searched his various aliases, an associate and the name of his book. As he did so, all of that information was captured by XKEYSCORE.

XKEYSCORE has, however, also been used to spy on non-terrorist targets. The April 18, 2013 issue of the internal NSA publication Special Source Operations Weekly boasts that analysts were successful in using XKEYSCORE to obtain U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's talking points prior to a meeting with President Obama.

XKEYSCORE for hacking: easily collecting user names, passwords and much more

XKEYSCORE plays a central role in how the U.S. government and its surveillance allies hack computer networks around the world. One top-secret 2009 NSA document describes how the system is used by the NSA to gather information for the Office of Tailored Access Operations, an NSA division responsible for Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) — i.e., targeted hacking.

Particularly in 2009, the hacking tactics enabled by XKEYSCORE would have yielded significant returns as use of encryption was less widespread than today. Jonathan Brossard, a security researcher and the CEO of Toucan Systems, told The Intercept: "Anyone could be trained to do this in less than one day: they simply enter the name of the server they want to hack into XKEYSCORE, type enter, and are presented login and password pairs to connect to this machine. Done. Finito."Previous reporting by The Interceptrevealed that systems administrators are a popular target of the NSA. "Who better to target than the person that already has the 'keys to the kingdom?'" read a 2012 post on an internal NSA discussion board.

This system enables analysts to access web mail servers with remarkable ease.

The same methods are used to steal the credentials — user names and passwords — of individual users of message boards.

Hacker forums are also monitored for people selling or using exploits and other hacking tools. While the NSA is clearly monitoring to understand the capabilities developed by its adversaries, it is also monitoring locations where such capabilities can be purchased.

Other information gained via XKEYSCORE facilitates the remote exploitation of target computers. By extracting browser fingerprint and operating system versions from Internet traffic, the system allows analysts to quickly assess the exploitability of a target. Brossard, the security researcher, said that "NSA has built an impressively complete set of automated hacking tools for their analysts to use."

Given the breadth of information collected by XKEYSCORE, accessing and exploiting a target's online activity is a matter of a few mouse clicks. Brossard explains: "The amount of work an analyst has to perform to actually break into remote computers over the Internet seems ridiculously reduced — we are talking minutes, if not seconds. Simple. As easy as typing a few words in Google."

These facts bolster one of Snowden's most controversial statements, made in his first video interview published by The Guardian on June 9, 2013. "I, sitting at my desk," said Snowden, could "wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge to even the president, if I had a personal email."

Indeed, training documents for XKEYSCORE repeatedly highlight how user-friendly the program is: with just a few clicks, any analyst with access to it can conduct sweeping searches simply by entering a person's email address, telephone number, name or other identifying data. There is no indication in the documents reviewed that prior approval is needed for specific searches.

In addition to login credentials and other target intelligence, XKEYSCORE collects router configuration information, which it shares with Tailored Access Operations. The office is able to exploit routers and then feed the traffic traveling through those routers into their collection infrastructure. This allows the NSA to spy on traffic from otherwise out-of-reach networks. XKEYSCORE documents reference router configurations, and a document previously published byDer Spiegel shows that "active implants" can be used to "cop[y] traffic and direc[t]" it past a passive collector.

XKEYSCORE for counterintelligence

Beyond enabling the collection, categorization, and querying of metadata and content, XKEYSCORE has also been used to monitor the surveillance and hacking actions of foreign nation states and to gather the fruits of their hacking. The Intercept previously reported that NSA and its allies spy on hackers in order to collect what they collect.

Once the hacking tools and techniques of a foreign entity (for instance,South Korea) are identified, analysts can then extract the country's espionage targets from XKEYSCORE, and gather information that the foreign power has managed to steal.

Monitoring of foreign state hackers could allow the NSA to gather techniques and tools used by foreign actors, including knowledge of zero-day exploits—software bugs that allow attackers to hack into systems, and that not even the software vendor knows about—and implants. Additionally, by monitoring vulnerability reports sent to vendors such as Kaspersky, the agency could learn when exploits they were actively using need to be retired because they've been discovered by a third party.

Seizure v. searching: oversight, audit trail and the Fourth Amendment

By the nature of how it sweeps up information, XKEYSCORE gathers communications of Americans, despite the Fourth Amendment protection against "unreasonable search and seizure" — including searching data without a warrant. The NSA says it does not target U.S. citizens' communications without a warrant, but acknowledges that it "incidentally" collects and reads some of it without one, minimizing the information that is retained or shared.

But that interpretation of the law is dubious at best.

XKEYSCORE training documents say that the "burden is on user/auditor to comply with USSID-18 or other rules," apparently including the British Human Rights Act (HRA), which protects the rights of U.K. citizens. U.S. Signals Intelligence Directive 18 (USSID 18) is the American directive that governs "U.S. person minimization."

Kurt Opsahl, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's general counsel, describes USSID 18 as "an attempt by the intelligence community to comply with the Fourth Amendment. But it doesn't come from a court, it comes from the executive."

If, for instance, an analyst searched XKEYSCORE for all iPhone users, this query would violate USSID 18 due to the inevitable American iPhone users that would be grabbed without a warrant, as the NSA's own training materials make clear.

Opsahl believes that analysts are not prevented by technical means from making queries that violate USSID 18. "The document discusses whether auditors will be happy or unhappy. This indicates that compliance will be achieved by after-the-fact auditing, not by preventing the search."

Screenshots of the XKEYSCORE web-based user interface included in slides show that analysts see a prominent warning message: "This system is audited for USSID 18 and Human Rights Act compliance." When analysts log in to the system, they see a more detailed message warning that "an audit trail has been established and will be searched" in response to HRA complaints, and as part of the USSID 18 and USSID 9 audit process.

Because the XKEYSCORE system does not appear to prevent analysts from making queries that would be in violation of these rules, Opsahl concludes that "there's a tremendous amount of power being placed in the hands of analysts." And while those analysts may be subject to audits, "at least in the short term they can still obtain information that they shouldn't have."

During a symposium in January 2015 hosted at Harvard University, Edward Snowden, who spoke via video call, said that NSA analysts are "completely free from any meaningful oversight." Speaking about the people who audit NSA systems like XKEYSCORE for USSID 18 compliance, he said, "The majority of the people who are doing the auditing are the friends of the analysts. They work in the same office. They're not full-time auditors, they're guys who have other duties assigned. There are a few traveling auditors who go around and look at the things that are out there, but really it's not robust."

In a statement to The Intercept, the NSA said:

"The National Security Agency's foreign intelligence operations are 1) authorized by law; 2) subject to multiple layers of stringent internal and external oversight; and 3) conducted in a manner that is designed to protect privacy and civil liberties. As provided for by Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD-28), all persons, regardless of their nationality, have legitimate privacy interests in the handling of their personal information. NSA goes to great lengths to narrowly tailor and focus its signals intelligence operations on the collection of communications that are most likely to contain foreign intelligence or counterintelligence information."

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We know that Facebook has a vast facial recognition database so good that it can recognize you when your face is hidden, that the FBI has built a millions-strong criminal facial recognition system, and that Google's new Photos app is so…

We know that Facebook has a vast facial recognition database so good that it can recognize you when your face is hidden, that the FBI has built a millions-strong criminal facial recognition system, and that Google's new Photos app is so effective at face recognition that it can identify now-adults in photos from their childhood. But now facial recognition is starting to pop up in weird and unexpected places: at music festivals (to identify criminals); at stadiums (to weed out "sports troublemakers") and at churches. Yes, churches.

Moshe Greenshpan, the CEO of Israel- and Las Vegas-based facial recognition software company Face-Six, says there are 30 churches around the world using his Churchix technology. He launched the service just four months ago and says churches are already using it to scan congregants' earthly visages to keep track of attendance at events in order to know who wasn't there so they can check up on them, or who attends most frequently so they can ask those people for donations. He declined to name any of the churches using the technology citing the controversy around facial recognition. I asked him if any of the churches are based in Texas or Illinois, the only two U.S. states that have laws on the books about getting permission to collect peoples' faceprints. "I prefer not to say," said Greenshpan.

(If a facial expression-detecting camera were trained on my own face, it would read "skeptical." Without being able to talk to one of the churches using this technology, it's impossible to verify Greenshpan's claims.)

Greenshpan said the churches just have to upload one high-quality photo of a congregant to start scanning video or photos from gatherings to see if they were there. I asked him if the churches let people know they're using the technology. "I don't think churches tell people," he said. "We encourage them to do so but I don't think they do."

That's exactly the fear that privacy advocates have about the increasing roll-out of this technology: people's faces are being put in databases and used to track them without any knowledge that it's happening. Greenshpan argues that churches were already keeping track of who attended their events, but that his technology just makes it more efficient for medium-sized and mega-churches.

From the Churchix website

Greenshpan, who got his start with a facial recognition app called Skakash that was like a Shazam for celebrity faces, and then "followed the money" to business applications, is among the entrepreneurs who want to usher facial recognition into more common use. Some of the companies focus on their ability to create databases of "bad faces" — people who can be instantly identified for heightened scrutiny or even barred from entry. California-based FaceFirst tells retailers in an advertising brochure that they can get alerts when "pre-identified shoplifters" or "known litigious individuals" enter their stores.

FaceFirst also says retailers can create a database of "good customers," so they can greet them by name when they walk through the door. Privacy advocates worry about the creation of face-tracking databases that could be used to track people's movements in the offline world the same way advertising companies track them online from website to website using cookies.

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From a Facefirst advertising brochure for retailers

"Instantly, when a person in your FaceFirst database steps into one of your stores, you are sent an email, text, or SMS alert that includes their picture and all biographical information of the known individual so you can take immediate and appropriate action," says the Facefirst brochure. It doesn't say what happens when that person isn't you but is actually a doppelgänger with a bad reputation. Or how someone who doesn't want to get greeted by name gets their face taken out of the database.

"There are no federal laws that specifically govern the use of facial recognition technology," wrote Ben Sobel in a Washington Post editorialthat discussed the only two states with relevant laws on the books. In lieu of a law, the Department of Commerce has been trying to establish facial recognition industry standards in a "privacy multistakeholder process." For more than a year, industrial representatives and privacy advocates have been taking part in negotiations to come up with standards for how facial recognition should be deployed by businesses in the U.S. Last week, those negotiations broke down. Privacy groups involved in the process, including the ACLU and EFF, withdrew, saying in a letter that companies refused to agree to core principles of privacy.

"We asked the industry to agree that in general they need to get consent to put people's images into facial recognition databases and they disagreed," said Alvaro Bedoya, executive director of Georgetown's Center on Privacy & Technology. "So we proposed the narrowest of narrow situations, that when someone is walking down a street, a company they haven't heard of shouldn't identify that person by name. And the industry representatives wouldn't agree to that either. So we walked out."

According to many a sci-fi book and at least one hilarious comic, technology-enabled facial recognition in the wild will eventually be as common as caller id on your phone — which also got heat from privacy advocates when first introduced in 1990. How mainstream society feels about it is still unclear, though people occasionally seem to be discomforted judging from lawsuits filed this year in Illinois alleging that both Facebook and Shutterfly created faceprints without their users' consents. But proponents say, with the steady march of technology and image collection, face recognition everywhere is looking increasingly inevitable.

"You, I, everyone has the right to take photographs in public," said Carl Szabo, a lawyer at online advertising trade group Netchoice who was on the other side of the Commerce debate. "Facial recognition can be applied immediately, or days later, or months later. If someone takes a photograph in public, and wants to apply facial recognition, should they really need to get consent in advance? Are they going to chase someone down the street to get them to fill out a form?"

Szabo said he was disappointed that the privacy groups had dropped out of the negotiations but that the Department of Commerce working group will still issue standards on facial recognition for industry. He thinks companies just need to be transparent about what they're doing and put notices up about facial recognition being used. He says businesses will change their ways if consumers signal that they don't like it. "I don't know if society will get used to Carl Szabo being identified as he's walking down the street," he said. "But if a business makes people uncomfortable, there will be a backlash."

Of course, if Greenshpan's claims are true, there are congregants at churches who are currently being subjected to facial recognition scanning who have no idea it's happening and thus no opportunity to raise holy hell about it if they object.

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Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Collection: UNT Theses and Dissertationshttp://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/UNTETD/browse/?fq=untl_institution:UNT&start=40&fq=str_degree_discipline:Computer+Science2013-08-13T14:47:25-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Collection: UNT Theses and Dissertations3D Reconstruction Using Lidar and Visual Images2013-08-13T14:47:25-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc177193/

In this research, multi-perspective image registration using LiDAR and visual images was considered. 2D-3D image registration is a difficult task because it requires the extraction of different semantic features from each modality. This problem is solved in three parts. The first step involves detection and extraction of common features from each of the data sets. The second step consists of associating the common features between two different modalities. Traditional methods use lines or orthogonal corners as common features. The third step consists of building the projection matrix. Many existing methods use global positing system (GPS) or inertial navigation system (INS) for an initial estimate of the camera pose. However, the approach discussed herein does not use GPS, INS, or any such devices for initial estimate; hence the model can be used in places like the lunar surface or Mars where GPS or INS are not available. A variation of the method is also described, which does not require strong features from both images but rather uses intensity gradients in the image. This can be useful when one image does not have strong features (such as lines) or there are too many extraneous features.
A Programming Language For Concurrent Processing2013-06-04T22:29:06-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc164005/

This thesis is a proposed solution to the problem of including an effective interrupt mechanism in the set of concurrent- processing primitives of a block-structured programming language or system. The proposed solution is presented in the form of a programming language definition and model. The language is called TRIPLE.
Multi-perspective, Multi-modal Image Registration and Fusion2013-03-04T14:02:27-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149562/

Multi-modal image fusion is an active research area with many civilian and military applications. Fusion is defined as strategic combination of information collected by various sensors from different locations or different types in order to obtain a better understanding of an observed scene or situation. Fusion of multi-modal images cannot be completed unless these two modalities are spatially aligned. In this research, I consider two important problems. Multi-modal, multi-perspective image registration and decision level fusion of multi-modal images. In particular, LiDAR and visual imagery. Multi-modal image registration is a difficult task due to the different semantic interpretation of features extracted from each modality. This problem is decoupled into three sub-problems. The first step is identification and extraction of common features. The second step is the determination of corresponding points. The third step consists of determining the registration transformation parameters. Traditional registration methods use low level features such as lines and corners. Using these features require an extensive optimization search in order to determine the corresponding points. Many methods use global positioning systems (GPS), and a calibrated camera in order to obtain an initial estimate of the camera parameters. The advantages of our work over the previous works are the following. First, I used high level-features, which significantly reduce the search space for the optimization process. Second, the determination of corresponding points is modeled as an assignment problem between a small numbers of objects. On the other side, fusing LiDAR and visual images is beneficial, due to the different and rich characteristics of both modalities. LiDAR data contain 3D information, while images contain visual information. Developing a fusion technique that uses the characteristics of both modalities is very important. I establish a decision-level fusion technique using manifold models.
Automatic Tagging of Communication Data2013-03-04T14:02:27-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149611/

Globally distributed software teams are widespread throughout industry. But finding reliable methods that can properly assess a team's activities is a real challenge. Methods such as surveys and manual coding of activities are too time consuming and are often unreliable. Recent advances in information retrieval and linguistics, however, suggest that automated and/or semi-automated text classification algorithms could be an effective way of finding differences in the communication patterns among individuals and groups. Communication among group members is frequent and generates a significant amount of data. Thus having a web-based tool that can automatically analyze the communication patterns among global software teams could lead to a better understanding of group performance. The goal of this thesis, therefore, is to compare automatic and semi-automatic measures of communication and evaluate their effectiveness in classifying different types of group activities that occur within a global software development project. In order to achieve this goal, we developed a web-based component that can be used to help clean and classify communication activities. The component was then used to compare different automated text classification techniques on various group activities to determine their effectiveness in correctly classifying data from a global software development team project.
A Smooth-turn Mobility Model for Airborne Networks2013-03-04T14:02:27-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149603/

In this article, I introduce a novel airborne network mobility model, called the Smooth Turn Mobility Model, that captures the correlation of acceleration for airborne vehicles across time and spatial coordinates. E?ective routing in airborne networks (ANs) relies on suitable mobility models that capture the random movement pattern of airborne vehicles. As airborne vehicles cannot make sharp turns as easily as ground vehicles do, the widely used mobility models for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks such as Random Waypoint and Random Direction models fail. Our model is realistic in capturing the tendency of airborne vehicles toward making straight trajectory and smooth turns with large radius, and whereas is simple enough for tractable connectivity analysis and routing design.
Cuff-less Blood Pressure Measurement Using a Smart Phone2012-11-06T15:03:04-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115102/

Blood pressure is vital sign information that physicians often need as preliminary data for immediate intervention during emergency situations or for regular monitoring of people with cardiovascular diseases. Despite the availability of portable blood pressure meters in the market, they are not regularly carried by people, creating a need for an ultra-portable measurement platform or device that can be easily carried and used at all times. One such device is the smartphone which, according to comScore survey is used by 26.2% of the US adult population. the mass production of these phones with built-in sensors and high computation power has created numerous possibilities for application development in different domains including biomedical. Motivated by this capability and their extensive usage, this thesis focuses on developing a blood pressure measurement platform on smartphones. Specifically, I developed a blood pressure measurement system on a smart phone using the built-in camera and a customized external microphone. the system consists of first obtaining heart beats using the microphone and finger pulse with the camera, and finally calculating the blood pressure using the recorded data. I developed techniques for finding the best location for obtaining the data, making the system usable by all categories of people. the proposed system resulted in accuracies between 90-100%, when compared to traditional blood pressure meters. the second part of this thesis presents a new system for remote heart beat monitoring using the smart phone. with the proposed system, heart beats can be transferred live by patients and monitored by physicians remotely for diagnosis. the proposed blood pressure measurement and remote monitoring systems will be able to facilitate information acquisition and decision making by the 9-1-1 operators.
Rapid Prototyping and Design of a Fast Random Number Generator2012-11-06T15:03:04-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115036/

Information in the form of online multimedia, bank accounts, or password usage for diverse applications needs some form of security. the core feature of many security systems is the generation of true random or pseudorandom numbers. Hence reliable generators of such numbers are indispensable. the fundamental hurdle is that digital computers cannot generate truly random numbers because the states and transitions of digital systems are well understood and predictable. Nothing in a digital computer happens truly randomly. Digital computers are sequential machines that perform a current state and move to the next state in a deterministic fashion. to generate any secure hash or encrypted word a random number is needed. But since computers are not random, random sequences are commonly used. Random sequences are algorithms that generate a pattern of values that appear to be random but after some time start repeating. This thesis implements a digital random number generator using MATLAB, FGPA prototyping, and custom silicon design. This random number generator is able to use a truly random CMOS source to generate the random number. Statistical benchmarks are used to test the results and to show that the design works. Thus the proposed random number generator will be useful for online encryption and security.
A Global Stochastic Modeling Framework to Simulate and Visualize Epidemics2012-11-06T15:03:04-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115099/

Epidemics have caused major human and monetary losses through the course of human civilization. It is very important that epidemiologists and public health personnel are prepared to handle an impending infectious disease outbreak. the ever-changing demographics, evolving infrastructural resources of geographic regions, emerging and re-emerging diseases, compel the use of simulation to predict disease dynamics. By the means of simulation, public health personnel and epidemiologists can predict the disease dynamics, population groups at risk and their geographic locations beforehand, so that they are prepared to respond in case of an epidemic outbreak. As a consequence of the large numbers of individuals and inter-personal interactions involved in simulating infectious disease spread in a region such as a county, sizeable amounts of data may be produced that have to be analyzed. Methods to visualize this data would be effective in facilitating people from diverse disciplines understand and analyze the simulation. This thesis proposes a framework to simulate and visualize the spread of an infectious disease in a population of a region such as a county. As real-world populations have a non-homogeneous demographic and spatial distribution, this framework models the spread of an infectious disease based on population of and geographic distance between census blocks; social behavioral parameters for demographic groups. the population is stratified into demographic groups in individual census blocks using census data. Infection spread is modeled by means of local and global contacts generated between groups of population in census blocks. the strength and likelihood of the contacts are based on population, geographic distance and social behavioral parameters of the groups involved. the disease dynamics are represented on a geographic map of the region using a heat map representation, where the intensity of infection is mapped to a color scale. This framework provides a tool for public health personnel and epidemiologists to run what-if analyses on disease spread in specific populations and plan for epidemic response. By the means of demographic stratification of population and incorporation of geographic distance and social behavioral parameters into the modeling of the outbreak, this framework takes into account non-homogeneity in demographic mix and spatial distribution of the population. Generation of contacts per population group instead of individuals contributes to lowering computational overhead. Heat map representation of the intensity of infection provides an intuitive way to visualize the disease dynamics.
Rapid Prototyping and Design of a Fast Random Number Generator2012-11-06T15:03:04-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115040/

Information in the form of online multimedia, bank accounts, or password usage for diverse applications needs some form of security. the core feature of many security systems is the generation of true random or pseudorandom numbers. Hence reliable generators of such numbers are indispensable. the fundamental hurdle is that digital computers cannot generate truly random numbers because the states and transitions of digital systems are well understood and predictable. Nothing in a digital computer happens truly randomly. Digital computers are sequential machines that perform a current state and move to the next state in a deterministic fashion. to generate any secure hash or encrypted word a random number is needed. But since computers are not random, random sequences are commonly used. Random sequences are algorithms that generate a pattern of values that appear to be random but after some time start repeating. This thesis implements a digital random number generator using MATLAB, FGPA prototyping, and custom silicon design. This random number generator is able to use a truly random CMOS source to generate the random number. Statistical benchmarks are used to test the results and to show that the design works. Thus the proposed random number generator will be useful for online encryption and security.
GPS CaPPture: a System for GPS Trajectory Collection, Processing, and Destination Prediction2012-11-06T15:03:04-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115089/

In the United States, smartphone ownership surpassed 69.5 million in February 2011 with a large portion of those users (20%) downloading applications (apps) that enhance the usability of a device by adding additional functionality. a large percentage of apps are written specifically to utilize the geographical position of a mobile device. One of the prime factors in developing location prediction models is the use of historical data to train such a model. with larger sets of training data, prediction algorithms become more accurate; however, the use of historical data can quickly become a downfall if the GPS stream is not collected or processed correctly. Inaccurate or incomplete or even improperly interpreted historical data can lead to the inability to develop accurately performing prediction algorithms. As GPS chipsets become the standard in the ever increasing number of mobile devices, the opportunity for the collection of GPS data increases remarkably. the goal of this study is to build a comprehensive system that addresses the following challenges: (1) collection of GPS data streams in a manner such that the data is highly usable and has a reduction in errors; (2) processing and reduction of the collected data in order to prepare it and make it highly usable for the creation of prediction algorithms; (3) creation of prediction/labeling algorithms at such a level that they are viable for commercial use. This study identifies the key research problems toward building the CaPPture (collection, processing, prediction) system.


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The Cumberland Ultimate frisbee team, comprised of Greely High students, recently captured its third consecutive Maine high school championship. CU went 5-0 and outscored the opposition by a composite 73-26 inthe tournament.
Front row (Left to right): Jason Lewis, Casey Stevenson, Collin Manglass, Peter Colesworthy, Nick Jacques, Ethan Geheb.
Standing: Coach Kevin Massey, Hamilton Grey, Erik Jacobson, Reid Megathlin, Sarah Bolduc, Sarah Robinson, William Lones, Ross Perry, Christian Plummer, Kenny Ferentz, Jake Rose, Sam Humphries, Cam Graham, coach Mark Robinson.
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