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

John wrote:

FishbellykanakaDude wrote: > 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.

FishbellykanakaDude wrote: > 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 wrote:** 06-Apr-2019 Hardware Trojans

FishbellykanakaDude wrote: > 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.

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.

John wrote:

FishbellykanakaDude wrote: > 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?

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

John wrote:

FishbellykanakaDude wrote: > 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.

John wrote:

FishbellykanakaDude wrote: > 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.