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What's worse it looks like the root cause of this is that Intel cheated. In other words their processors speculatively execute code in such a fashion that the actual access takes place before the privilege check is done. This is good for performance but horrible for security in that it apparently can be leveraged to allow the reading of anything accessible from the hypervisor -- in other words, any other client's data.
www.theregister.co.uk...
Whenever a running program needs to do anything useful – such as write to a file or open a network connection – it has to temporarily hand control of the processor to the kernel to carry out the job. To make the transition from user mode to kernel mode and back to user mode as fast and efficient as possible, the kernel is present in all processes' virtual memory address spaces, although it is invisible to these programs. When the kernel is needed, the program makes a system call, the processor switches to kernel mode and enters the kernel. When it is done, the CPU is told to switch back to user mode, and reenter the process. While in user mode, the kernel's code and data remains out of sight but present in the process's page tables.
Think of the kernel as God sitting on a cloud, looking down on Earth. It's there, and no normal being can see it, yet they can pray to it.
www.techemergence.com...
Sentient World Simulation and NSA Surveillance – Exploiting Privacy to Predict the Future?
The simulator has taken the spying that Snowden publicized, one step further. The program has amassed databases so profound they can now look so deep into a person’s life they can predict their thoughts and future actions with relative certainty. Although this system is incredibly intrusive and raises many moral concerns, it provides valuable insight into questions which could be extremely beneficial. It’s unclear as to weather all the private-sector efforts towards transparency (including some noteworthy AI projects at Microsoft) will have any effect on the direction and intensity of public-sector surveillance.
www.corbettreport.com...
The NSA’s illegal warrantless wiretapping program. The building of the massive NSA data center in Utah to permanently store copies of all digital communication sent around the world. The UK government’s “Communications Data Bill” to monitor emails, instant messages and other personal information. What was dismissed as crazy conspiracy theory just over a decade ago has become, in this post-9/11 era, the all-too-familiar stuff of newspaper headlines and talking head reportage.
In fact, it was about a decade ago that the tactic of the intelligence agencies seemed to change. Instead of keeping their activities classified–referring to the NSA as “No Such Agency,” for example, or officially denying the existence of Echelon–the government increasingly began shoving this information in the public’s face.
www.krannert.purdue.edu...
Model Development IDEs SWS provides a set of tools based on the ontological repository for use by experts from various domains to develop and experiment with models in the synthetic environment. A researcher begins with a set of theories to test. Using algorithms of how the theories interact with the rest of the synthetic world, the researcher creates models. The researcher designs a complete experiment environment using the new models and leveraging existing models by creating a profile consisting of a selection of parameters from the ontological data repository that fulfill the input requirements and support the experiment’s scenario.
originally posted by: SkeptiSchism
I read a post from another CT forum yesterday that got me thinking about this Spectre and Meltdown malware/hardware deficiency. The post suggested that the hardware issues were intentional, which I believe they are, and were being used for spying by the NSA and usual suspects.
But then I remembered a video I saw a while back by James Corbett on the Sentient World Simulation, here is the video:
It's a pretty old video, I think he produced it in 2012 and yet he re-posted it to Youtube just a couple months ago. That tells me he thinks it is significant. I also remembered reading about the Spectre and Meltdown issues on Market-ticker.com, I'll reproduced the relevant information for that article:
market-ticker.org...
What's worse it looks like the root cause of this is that Intel cheated. In other words their processors speculatively execute code in such a fashion that the actual access takes place before the privilege check is done. This is good for performance but horrible for security in that it apparently can be leveraged to allow the reading of anything accessible from the hypervisor -- in other words, any other client's data.
Denniger took it from this article:
www.theregister.co.uk...
Whenever a running program needs to do anything useful – such as write to a file or open a network connection – it has to temporarily hand control of the processor to the kernel to carry out the job. To make the transition from user mode to kernel mode and back to user mode as fast and efficient as possible, the kernel is present in all processes' virtual memory address spaces, although it is invisible to these programs. When the kernel is needed, the program makes a system call, the processor switches to kernel mode and enters the kernel. When it is done, the CPU is told to switch back to user mode, and reenter the process. While in user mode, the kernel's code and data remains out of sight but present in the process's page tables.
Think of the kernel as God sitting on a cloud, looking down on Earth. It's there, and no normal being can see it, yet they can pray to it.
Now I could be wrong but it seems to me the idea is to anticipate a user's actions before they do it in order to speed up processing. But it could just as easily be a system that attempts to anticipate a user's actions, then records their actions to see how accurate the anticipation was.
www.techemergence.com...
Sentient World Simulation and NSA Surveillance – Exploiting Privacy to Predict the Future?
The simulator has taken the spying that Snowden publicized, one step further. The program has amassed databases so profound they can now look so deep into a person’s life they can predict their thoughts and future actions with relative certainty. Although this system is incredibly intrusive and raises many moral concerns, it provides valuable insight into questions which could be extremely beneficial. It’s unclear as to weather all the private-sector efforts towards transparency (including some noteworthy AI projects at Microsoft) will have any effect on the direction and intensity of public-sector surveillance.
I know this is sort of spread out all over the place, but I think what has happened is that Hillary Clinton's loss was a surprise to the deepstate because the Sentient World Simulation predicted her win. I also think something is wrong with the AI running the simulation and that is really part of this mess with the recent memo-gate in DC.
If my theory is correct we should start to see some pretty scary things going down in the markets because I also believe this AI simulation has been modeling the markets and that is the reason the fed and banks have been able to blow this recent bubble so sky high.
/rant