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Eric Schmidt, the former Google chairman, told Reuters in a recent interview that high-end processors should have kill-switches. “Knowing where the chips go is

Eric Schmidt, the former Google chairman, told Reuters in a recent interview that high-end processors should have kill-switches. “Knowing where the chips go is probably a very good thing. You could for example, on every chip put in essentially a public private key pair, which authenticates it and allows it to work”. https://www.reuters.com/technology/chip-challenge-keeping-western-semiconductors-out-russian-weapons-2022-04-01/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/chip-challenge-keeping-we... What he won’t tell is that this is already a reality, as I learned after having my air-gapped system and Pixel phone wiped remotely for doing academic research on wireless “silent speech interfaces”. Anyone doing research on this area be cautious of sabotage when using US designed CPUs (AMD/INTEL/QUALCOMM/APPLE/ARM), as the microcode, SMM and firmware of your system may be manipulated to mess up your computations. Ask your own Nation to stop trusting Silicon Valley and make your own silicon supply chain and tech services.

picture 4y ago
Remotely wiping an air-gapped system and a Pixel phone are some astonishing feats. Could you tell us some more details about that, especially why you may suspect it to be caused by malicious sabotage by some state level adversary? How did you air gap your air-gapped system?
teddyh 4y ago
The capitalization of the word “Nation” is a worrying sign.
- thfuran 4y ago
  Why?
  - teddyh 4y ago
    Crackpots often either Capitalize certain words they consider Significant, or write them in ALL-CAPS; I have also seen words [Bracketed] for extra emphasis. I’ve heard it’s a sign of schizophrenia. EDIT: Here’s a reference: https://prestersperspective.blogspot.com/p/schizophrenia-randomly-capitalized-words.html https://prestersperspective.blogspot.com/p/schizophrenia-ran...
- LeonTheremin 4y ago
  On-screen keyboard auto-complete suggests capitalized words after they are used capitalized for titles.
pyinstallwoes 4y ago
Silent speech interfaces, as in "The Voice of God weapon?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/07/06/ufos-plasma-lasers-and-the-pentagons-voice-of-god-weapon/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/07/06/ufos-p...
- LeonTheremin 4y ago
  More like: Towards Contactless Silent Speech Recognition Based on Detection of Active and Visible Articulators Using IR-UWB Radar Scientific paper about using infrared imaging (the rays can reach under the skin) to detect silent speech/inner speech. Replicating this and using it to show people their inner speech can be stolen would bring awareness to possible surveillance. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27801867/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27801867/
  - picture 4y ago
    How would this be used for surveillance? You do realize that this isn't reading people's minds/internal dialog right? It requires making specific physical motions, as if you are actually speaking. If they are already talking, then why bother with this when you could use directional microphones or even acoustic phased array? Furthermore, as someone who has worked with radar/remote imaging, it is very difficult to spy on people with a technique like this without some device right in their face, especially if the subject is moving around. And it's likely that lots of calibration and characterization are required to produce good results that will vary drastically from person to person depending on their physiology. As to the possibility of some state "top secret" technology that can do radar imaging with range and fidelity that are miles and miles ahead of research or less-classified military technology: why would they use such amazing tech on something like this? There are also established equations that define what is physically possible. Many radar systems today are basically very close to the optimal performance given constraints of real world semiconductor materials, as in, they fly close to the Shannon channel capacity limit. It's just not possible to make magical radar devices. Do you have more details about this?
    - LeonTheremin 4y ago

picture 4y ago

Remotely wiping an air-gapped system and a Pixel phone are some astonishing feats. Could you tell us some more details about that, especially why you may suspect it to be caused by malicious sabotage by some state level adversary? How did you air gap your air-gapped system?

teddyh 4y ago

The capitalization of the word “Nation” is a worrying sign.

thfuran 4y ago
Why?
- teddyh 4y ago
  Crackpots often either Capitalize certain words they consider Significant, or write them in ALL-CAPS; I have also seen words [Bracketed] for extra emphasis. I’ve heard it’s a sign of schizophrenia. EDIT: Here’s a reference: https://prestersperspective.blogspot.com/p/schizophrenia-randomly-capitalized-words.html https://prestersperspective.blogspot.com/p/schizophrenia-ran...
LeonTheremin 4y ago
On-screen keyboard auto-complete suggests capitalized words after they are used capitalized for titles.

pyinstallwoes 4y ago

Silent speech interfaces, as in "The Voice of God weapon?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/07/06/ufos-plasma-lasers-and-the-pentagons-voice-of-god-weapon/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/07/06/ufos-p...

LeonTheremin 4y ago
More like: Towards Contactless Silent Speech Recognition Based on Detection of Active and Visible Articulators Using IR-UWB Radar Scientific paper about using infrared imaging (the rays can reach under the skin) to detect silent speech/inner speech. Replicating this and using it to show people their inner speech can be stolen would bring awareness to possible surveillance. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27801867/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27801867/
- picture 4y ago
  How would this be used for surveillance? You do realize that this isn't reading people's minds/internal dialog right? It requires making specific physical motions, as if you are actually speaking. If they are already talking, then why bother with this when you could use directional microphones or even acoustic phased array? Furthermore, as someone who has worked with radar/remote imaging, it is very difficult to spy on people with a technique like this without some device right in their face, especially if the subject is moving around. And it's likely that lots of calibration and characterization are required to produce good results that will vary drastically from person to person depending on their physiology. As to the possibility of some state "top secret" technology that can do radar imaging with range and fidelity that are miles and miles ahead of research or less-classified military technology: why would they use such amazing tech on something like this? There are also established equations that define what is physically possible. Many radar systems today are basically very close to the optimal performance given constraints of real world semiconductor materials, as in, they fly close to the Shannon channel capacity limit. It's just not possible to make magical radar devices. Do you have more details about this?
  - LeonTheremin 4y ago