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[John]

Do you think the Chinese are behind all the recent software failures in the airline industry?

No.

[FishbellykanakaDude]

> I picked the blue for your name from the bluishness in the
> soldier's uniforms. ..the idea is to "link" the photo to your
> name. It sorta frames the title, and balances the page. It's also
> "cooling", and (I think) gives your name more "gravitas".

> You might wanna darken the blue just a tad.

I changed the name color to blue:

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Is that what you mean? It doesn't look right to me.

Yeah,.. it doesn't look right. I like the idea of "a blue", but that's too saturated and "primary".

The blue that I found (which I prefer) was found by sampling the "more blueish" parts of the uniforms of the soldiers. Well, and tweaking it to darken it ever so slightly.

I was kinda going for a color to "sandwich" the commie-yellow (and red) between so as to not OVERLY highlight your name, while still balancing the vertical "weights" of the colors on the page (cover), giving your name some weight/gravitas while not going into unicorn-ass-rainbow territory.

..and yes,.. I am trying to be funny. But I am also serious..

[John]

> Yeah,.. it doesn't look right. I like the idea of "a blue", but
> that's too saturated and "primary".

> The blue that I found (which I prefer) was found by sampling the
> "more blueish" parts of the uniforms of the soldiers. Well, and
> tweaking it to darken it ever so slightly.

> I was kinda going for a color to "sandwich" the commie-yellow (and
> red) between so as to not OVERLY highlight your name, while still
> balancing the vertical "weights" of the colors on the page
> (cover), giving your name some weight/gravitas while not going
> into unicorn-ass-rainbow territory.

> ..and yes,.. I am trying to be funny. But I am also
> serious..

Since you apparently know what you're doing, how about just
giving me the rgb code for the color you want to suggest?

[FishbellykanakaDude]

** 06-Apr-2019 Hardware Trojans

> Interesting paper:

> Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans: Extended Version

> https://www.emsec.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/me ... tended.pdf

Let me add to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's effusive praise of you.

That paper is quite a find. You must be really into this stuff.

Nah,.. I'm just really lucky (freakishly so!) at doing weird bits of research, and am a super-gemious.

..I mean "genius".

However, I think some additional discussion is warranted. The paper
discusses implementing a Trojan (what I would call a "backdoor") by
means of a new technique that can't be detected using the optical
methods that have been used in the past to detect Trojans.

However, I get the impression that just around the corner is a new
method for detecting Trojans that will defeat this new technique.
Once such a Trojan is found, then there is irrefutable proof of the
existence of a backdoor with certainty.

The beauty of the software-only method that I described for
undetectable backdoors is that it can never be detected, even by more
powerful microscopes, or whatever, because the chip itself is
unchanged. There's nothing there to discover. The best that one can
do is reverse engineer the code, and what I'm saying is that a person
with the right skills can use cryptographic techniques to easily write
the code for a backdoor that cannot be detected until it's activated.
If the code is reverse engineered, it may be suspected that the
code is suspicious, but that's as far as it goes. Unlike the hardware
method, a software backdoor can never be proven with certainty.

At any rate, let's face it -- the Chinese military will have
thoroughly studied all the techniques, both software and hardware, and
will use any combination of them that will work.

And one day, at a time of the choosing of China's military,
much of the internet and many local networks will all shut
down, if they've been implemented using Huawei routers.

I do have to wonder where the "software" is located (on board the boards/silicon) if it's not powered up to some minimal extent?

Wouldn't the testers abjectly depower suspected hardware to "wipe" any non-hardware software from the system?

Anyway,.. yeah, I'm simply gonna assume that the badguys are doing their absolute best at putting in backdoors, and the goodguys are absolute fools to not simply reject any suspicious source of hardware/software out of hand.

And if they're not, on either "side", then we're all semi-doomed anyway,.. so, I'm not gonna worry about it overly.

[FishbellykanakaDude]

> Yeah,.. it doesn't look right. I like the idea of ...

Since you apparently know what you're doing, how about just
giving me the rgb code for the color you want to suggest?

Somewhere between (RGB) 60,65,76 and 63,68,78.

..the "60" variant is a little darker than the "63" variant, as should be obvious,.. but which might not be,.. unless you're a SUPER-GEMIOUS!

Like me!

[FishbellykanakaDude]

Do you think the Chinese are behind all the recent software failures in the airline industry?

Those aren't software failures. They're implementer failures.

..unless they ARE code failures, in which case I blame the pointy haired boss.

[FishbellykanakaDude]

> Breaking the theory book into a sort of progressive/building
> syllabus of texts, with each going into details and implications
> and observations and weird'n'freaky anecdotes and stories, might
> well be rather addictive,.. in that "gotta read the next part"
> way.

I don't think so. I've tried many things in the last 15 years, and
they've all turned out to be dead ends. This would too. It's time to
be realistic.

Ah come-ahhhhhhhhhhhhn...! Do the comic book thing! Make it a franchise,.. with GD Man, and Living Memory Boy, as they (and the rest of the Super Anti-Genocide Pre-Regeneration Squad) battle the evil forces of CH86 and his Wrathful Whippersnappers across the globe and cyberspace!

I wannit, I wannit, I wannit, I wannit, I wannit, I wannit,... I wannit SOON...!!

Give it to me, or I will whine,.. incessantly,.. for more than a half an hour.

[Guest]

> I picked the blue for your name from the bluishness in the
> soldier's uniforms. ..the idea is to "link" the photo to your
> name. It sorta frames the title, and balances the page. It's also
> "cooling", and (I think) gives your name more "gravitas".

> You might wanna darken the blue just a tad.

I changed the name color to blue:



Is that what you mean? It doesn't look right to me.

I'd put your name in white.

And I'm going to buy two copies of your book. I bought two copies of your Iran book.

[FishbellykanakaDude]

10.2
The second incident that occurred around that time was perhaps even more serfious. On December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, and all the former Soviet republics became independent self-governing nations.

10.2
Suddenly, the leadership of the CCP were staring death in the face, as they considered the fact something like that Tiananmen Square protests could force the Chinese Communist Party to collapse as well.

..the fact THAT something like THE Tiananmen Square protests could force...

[Phong Tran]

26.13. Sun Yat-Sen and the Republican Revolution (1911), paragraph 2

Current: ... 1989 in China's Tiananmen Square was crushed by a huge massacre of thousands of student protesters, resulting in a bloodath, establishing ...

Correction: bloodbath

27.2. Sun Yat-Sen versus Yuan Shikai, paragraph 5

Current: What happens in country after country after a civil war is that whoever becomes leader after the civil war refuses to give up power, often resorting to mass slaughter, rape, torture, mass jailings mutilations ....

Correction: jailings, mutilations

27.2. Sun Yat-Sen versus Yuan Shikai, paragraph 8

Current: ... Following Yuan's death, there was a 12-year known as the warlord era, ...

Correction: 12-year period ? 12-year time ?

27.5 Twenty-One Demands - May 9, 1915 - China's National Humiliation Day, paragraph 2

Current: ... Meiji Restoration to grow into a major international economic and military power, on a par with some of the European powers ...

Correction: remove 'a', [don't think it's required]

29.4 Details of the Versailles betrayal and return of Shandong, paragraph 7

Current: Every since the 1915 Twenty-One ...

Correction: Ever

29.5 Bolshevik government renounces privileges and interests in China, paragraph 1

Current: ... This was the first step in the gradual rescinding of the Capitulations; the last of them went only in 1943, as a consequence of the difficult situation ofthe Europeans and Americans in ...

Correction: of the

30.2 The rise of communism, paragraph 1

Current: ... as a dictatorship of the proletariat seemed to be relevant only in a highly industrialized and not in an agragian society.

Correction: in a highly industrialized society and not in an agragrian one.