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The dark side of the moonDenis A Nicole

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CDAC

After being denied Craysupercomputers, Indian

scientists developed their own,which proved the world that wecould beat them at their owngame, and at a fraction of thecost. The final result of theeffort was the PARAM 8000which was installed in 1991.

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The architect of PARAM 8000, Indias first supercomputer

Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar, one ofIndias most acclaimedscientists, is best known as thearchitect of Indias firstsupercomputerPARAM 8000.

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Shakti-1: 1998-05-11

Claimed Indianunderground

thermonuclear test.

Rumoured not to haveworked too well

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Not Pink Floyd after all

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Or maybe this

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Now part of Boeing

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Presumably NARUS processes this bit

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SIGINT people reallyhate to ask

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This is the secret radio towerwhich the government used tointercept thousands of trunkphone lines running through

Britain to the Republic ofIreland.

The structure was located onthe boundary of the URENCO

uranium enrichment plant atCapenhurst in Cheshire

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It is also located right on the microwave line-of-sight between two BritishTelecom radio towers at Gwaenysgor in North Wales and Pale Heights inCheshire.

The BT towers form part of a chain carrying thousands of phone lines fromEngland, along the north Wales coast to Anglesey, then across the IrishSea to Dublin. Four microwave channels ran in each direction, eachcapable of carrying one TV channel or roughly 1,000 phone calls, usingfrequencies around 6.5 GHz.

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Radomes dont just keep the pigeons out

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And where was the AN/FLR-9 looking?

To be fair, there are also technical reasons that a Wullenweber is circularly disposed.http://www.ftva.org/heritage/anflr9/RAFChicksands.jpg

http://www.premium-rx.org/ref/wullenweber.pdf

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Its obvious where this was pointing

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and it didnt work

http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Science_and_Technology/Other/480.pdf

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Back to the topic. Im no lawyer, but

I dont thinkinternationalcommunications are protected frominspection.

So NSA are probably within their rights to deep packet inspectat theterminations of international cables/sat-links.

But, it seems, that is not what they did:

AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shuntedits customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switchingcentre, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit againstthe company.

The split circuits included traffic from peering links connecting to other internet backbone providers, meaningthat AT&T was also diverting traffic routed from its network to or from other domestic and internationalproviders, according to Klein's statement.

The secret room also included data-mining equipment called a Narus STA 6400, known to be used particularlyby government intelligence agencies because of its ability to sift through large amounts of data looking for pre-programmed targets, according to Klein's statement.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619

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Whats this here?

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France Telecom,BT, AT&T etc.SAFE fibrehttp://www.safe-sat3.co.za/

Diego Garcia
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USS Jimmy Carter

This boat is different fromits sister boats, the USSSeawolf, and the USS

Connecticut, in that ithas an additional sectioninserted into the hull forspecial operations.

Commissioned 2005-02-19.

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Leaking is dangerous

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People will say anything on the Web

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Dates

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FAA signed into law

Microsoft buys Skype

Steve Jobs dies


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Microsoft has form: NT4 SP5_NSAKEY 1999

Andrew Fernandes discovered a back door for the NSA in every copy of Win95/98/NT4 andWindows2000.

In this service release of software from Microsoft, the company crucially forgot to remove thesymbolic information identifying the security components. It turns out that there arereally two keys used by Windows; the first belongs to Microsoft, and it allows them to

securely load CryptoAPI services; the second belongs to the NSA. That means that theNSA can also securely load CryptoAPI services on your machine, and without yourauthorization. The result is that it is tremendously easier for the NSA to loadunauthorized security services on all copies of Microsoft Windows, and once thesesecurity services are loaded, they can effectively compromise your entire operatingsystem.

It turns out that there is a flaw in the way the function is implemented. Because of this, userscan easily eliminate or replace the NSA key from the operating system without modifyingany of Microsoft's original components. Since the NSA key is easily replaced, it meansthat non-US companies are free to install "strong" crypto services into Windows, withoutMicrosoft's or the NSA's approval.

http://cryptome.org/

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Why do this?

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Boundless Informant

Reads like a Web Technology MSc Project

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Boundless Informant is nothing to do with Prism

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So why Prism?

Heres a guess

Direct connection to trusted set-up at hosting site.

Lower latency, cheaper, but most important,

control over who sees the requests.

Another guess

NSA cannot routinely crack SSL/TLS at high volume intheir NARUS (or whatever) boxes. A few trusted(trusting) individuals have shared their keys with NSA.

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Some claims rings true

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Really? You got to China.

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