Earlier this week, in my analysis of Bilderberg 2008 and what it held for the world this year, I pondered on whether there would be Al-CIAda hackers let loose, as cyberterrorism was being discussed this time. And yesterday, some hackers messed around and made the official sites of the organizations overseeing the web's key routing infrastructure and domain name regulation systems point to a site displaying this message: "You think that you control the domains but you don't! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don't you believe us?"

Did a ten year old write that? Oh...oh....uh....you buh...believe us don't you? This is exactly like the 9/11 "cellphone" call from Flight 93 where someone called passenger Mark Bingham's mother and said, hi this is Mark Bingham, and then when asked by Bingham's mother who the guys were that they said had a bomb on the plane, they asked, You believe me, don't you? Voice cloning technology has long ago been perfected by governments. Here's a bit from the Washington Post:

"Gentlemen! We have called you together to inform you that we are going to overthrow the United States government." So begins a statement being delivered by Gen. Carl W. Steiner, former Commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Operations Command.

At least the voice sounds amazingly like him.

But it is not Steiner. It is the result of voice "morphing" technology developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

By taking just a 10-minute digital recording of Steiner's voice, scientist George Papcun is able, in near real time, to clone speech patterns and develop an accurate facsimile. Steiner was so impressed, he asked for a copy of the tape.

Continues with some stuff about psyops, which is exactly what, among other things, 9/11 and this "hacker attack" was. Whoever did it claimed to be the NetDevilz and said they were Turkish. Please! Any hacker good enough to hit these critical websites would know that the NSA and other government agencies have the capability to trace their location in under an hour, and be at their door in six more hours at best. There were two high school kids in New York who emailed Homeland Security last year as a prank and death threated Bush, and in just four hours Secret Service agents swooped in and arrested them. That's the reality of things. Corporate websites and the CIA and FBI's sites have been hit and defaced many times over the years and the people who did it never have revealed anything personal like country of origin, most times not even the name of the crew that they run with. It's like I'm watching some fake Hollywood movie where some 13 year old on his mom's laptop takes down the whole government. They treat us like total idiots and it has to stop.

Bilderberg, two weeks ago, where all the top people in business, newspapers, finance, banking, heads of state, and world royalty met in secret to discuss stuff about cyberterrorism, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Africa, a nuclear free world, and, according to Bilderberg exposer Jim Tucker, blonde haired blue eyed terrorism. And over the week, reports of White European Al-Qaeda training in Pakistan, North Korea out of nowhere agreeing to dim down its nuke program, propaganda about Pakistan training the Taliban, the world hearing for the first time about Mugabe and his many election thefts in the media, and now this hacker attack happens. The odds please?

Just yesterday one of the organizations whose sites got hit, ICANN, voted in favor of easing restrictions on domain name assignments. What that meant is for a price, you could buy your own domain, like .happy or .earth. This would have done much for Independence and self-determination on the net (well, for richer people) and that's the last thing the Illuminati ever want. I also see no coincidence with this.
One reason for engineering this is to strictly tighten controls over Internet usage. A creator of the original Internet system, David Clark, armed with a $200,000 grant from the government agency, the National Science Foundation, is working on creating a whole new internet architecture and phasing the old one out. He says that he would like to see a bigger piece of the pie for network service providers, which confirms what Alex Jones and his co-writers have been saying for years now. The bigger piece of the pie the big telecom and cable corporations are hungry for, laid out by Jeff Chester of The Nation, is this:

Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out.

Under the plans they are considering, all of us--from content providers to individual users--would pay more to surf online, stream videos or even send e-mail. Industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing "platinum," "gold" and "silver" levels of Internet access that would set limits on the number of downloads, media streams or even e-mail messages that could be sent or received.

That's why you see the big cable and satellite companies offering net access now. This, along with a series of strategic mergers, will enable them to have their pie. People must appreciate the fact that corporations and governments are controlled by many of the same people who attend BIlderberg. It is so important to expose these people. They understand full well that more and more minds are coming to alternative media sites, their pawn media outlets are losing viewers and subscribers, and it makes them scared. Control over the Internet is the next desperate scramble on their way off the driver's seat. It is then no surprise that the Bush White House strategy for winning the war on terror lumps in terrorism with "conspiracy theories". To keep things in context, the Illuminati always encode 2 or more messages in one statement. The terrorists want to take away our freedoms. This is repeated all the time. Yes, those who control this planet are the terrorists. For those who are afraid to stand up for your rights because of the kids, or fear of whatever, this quote from the Bush strategy is right up your alley: "Indeed, the terrorists are emboldened more by perceptions of weakness than by demonstrations of resolve. Terrorists lure recruits by telling them that we are decadent, easily intimidated, and will retreat if attacked."

I've read neocon Robert Kagan's book, Paradise and Power: Europe and America in the New World Order. There were only three pages where he didn't use the words weak or weakness at least once. If you understand prison life and how it is in there, you will understand life as one of the Illuminati. It is extremely close. Those smirks and grins we see on TV aren't cause the cameras have smiley faces painted on them, all. Still another use for this is to use the hack attack (I bet you they got more on the way) as a springboard for Turkish integration into the EU and to help equate people that wish their countries not to be sucked into the black hole of the EU with terrorists. The ABC white Al-Qaeda thing says that "An April 2008 report from Europol also noted that an increasing number of European nationals attended training in Pakistan "and were later involved in, or suspected of, terrorist offences in the EU."

God, how convenient. I joke about this so much but this is how they're going to paint it. You're against EU expansion or Turkey integration into the EU, you're with Al-Qaeda, cause the new European war on terror takes precedence over your individual rights, ya know.

David Rockefeller said about Mao tse-tung, who ordered the deaths of 60 million Chinese, "The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history." Yeah. China is exactly what will be in store for us if most of us if we sit around like drugged pigs and wait to be killed. The first bits of it are bleeding through already. The British DNA demands for minor infractions, the 3 million cameras in London alone, warrantless spying laws, and the fake carbon based laws are creating a tyrannical ring of repression around us. But we can stop joining up in their manufactured wars and letting them get power off of our misery. To many, it may feel good to feel superior to Jew, the Black, the Asian, or the White, even though we might have a crap job that pays nil, it, when you examine the fruits of Illuminati controlled society, really isn't. Standing together and mustering up the real strength not to fight them off, but not to let them in is what will really end this for the better.

I2 provides great capacity (with far fewer users than the commodity Internet) for sharing information and completing research. It’s possible to remotely operate things like telescopes and scanning-probe microscopes with I2. What can you do with I2?

I just finished up a meeting with several district administrators and administrators from our local supporting technical college and a private university. In it I heard very clearly that all parties are ready to reinvent ourselves and our levels of communication and working together. How will we do this? Via technology and networking.

At one point in our meeting, the President of our technical college district asked me for my vision of what an ideal relationship should be. I described a vision in which students and communities were empowered to earn dual credit and leverage the power of the educational partnerships, while greater levels of access were provided to programming that enriches the communities that we all serve. To borrow from a recent "Speak Up National Net Day 2007" summary, "as one high school student in a recent focus group [stated,] his vision for the ultimate school is a school where the teachers and the principal actively seek and regularly include the ideas of students in discussions and planning for all aspects of education, not just about technology."
http://www.tomorrow.org/docs/National%20Findings%20Speak%20Up%202007.pdf

Approaching this from the other side, students are probably less concerned with the networks that make this possible, and want to be more involved with the actual learning process happening over those networks. There is good data in the report talking about how students see themselves as content creators and network socialites, yet teachers still believe that technology best supports education through homework and testing ~ very low level use of classroom technology.

It is no secret that there is a digital divide in residential areas.

My home Internet connection is 15m/1m, up from 5m/384K just a couple of years ago. For most of Wisconsin, those speeds are incredible. A Twitter buddy of mine recently remarked on his connection through his cable company which was now pushing 24m/10m in a Western state. For those that follow NPR's Andy Carvin (formerly the Director of EDS's Digital Divide Network), he sent out a message today excited that in his new home in DC he would be connected to Verizon's FIOS network - anticipated 50mb download speeds. Even our best connected neighborhoods are still quite a ways away from FIOS capabilities around here! (Another friend in Northern VA wrote to tell me he still has a 56K dial-up connection at home because no broadband exists where he lives. I know colleagues in Wisconsin who can relate.)

At some point, kids exhaust the RIAA's objection to broadband by having downloaded every MP3 they care about, and yet they still need bandwidth. As the pipe gets larger, we go from being media consumers to becoming media producers. The evils of unsupervised media creation are the subject of plenty of other discussions so I won't go into that here - but suffice to say - there is much we could do to help our students actively participate in all aspects of their own education when they are connected. So how do we connect them?

Last week I was fortunate enough to again attend another Internet2 Spring Member Meeting in Washington DC. I think an interesting note to make about this meeting is that several of us have been working together the past few years as media creators to produce a Wiki where we embed videos, slide presentations, links and more within a page that captures the "essence" of the learning that has happened during the conference. How I wish we could share that process with our students who could capture their own learning and interactions with one another in a similar way!

Needless to say, there were many excellent presentations. Some programs were recorded and are available for archived playback, if you will: http://events.internet2.edu/2008/spring-mm/netcast.cfm

I would call to your attention especially the Wednesday general session:

http://events.internet2.edu/2008/spring-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=3811&event=280

Download the slides at:

http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/spring08/20080423-blueprint-windhausen.pdf

and then forward into the program to approximately when Mr. Windhausen begins speaking: [Approximately 38 minutes into the video he is being introduced.]

http://winmedia.internet2.edu/smm08-vod/smm08-6.wmv

But I have had several brushes with attempts both major and minor.

Previously the most serious was probably when my eBay account had been compromised. Through brute force, or some other means, someone had gained control of my identity on eBay and posted jewelry for sale. Although I am not a big eBay'r, I happened to be checking my account fairly frequently around that time and noticed that notifications had been turned off, that I had posted something for sale (a Tiffany necklace), and that PayPal was set up to dump to a gmail account.

What amazed me was how difficult it was to take care of such a simple thing. Have you ever tried to get help from eBay? Sending email messages so that you have documentation doesn't work. The people who are supposed to help you apparently get paid by the number of emails they respond to - and not who they help. Each time you get a cut and paste letter back that has little or nothing to do with what you send them. You're left to their "live chat" feature - which did eventually work - but kept disconnecting me and I would have to start over from agent to agent. Took 2 hours.

Then, weeks later, I had to deal with the same thing when eBay decided to bill me for listing fees! Again, a month or more later I started getting told my account was on hold because now they wanted $5 for helping me and verifying that I was me. (We won't let you buy anything on our service because we have verified who you are after our faulty security let you down.)

Can't say I feel better about the experience, but I'm fortunate that it was a relatively minor case of identity theft.

But this morning I'm reeling from a little different kind of identity pain. For work, I find myself frequently sending messages out to various listserves - for distance learning, ed tech and Internet2. I just reposted tagging guidelines for bloggers to four Internet2 lists for our upcoming Spring Member Meeting next week.

Somewhere, on one of those lists (and I suspect I know which one) some machine harvested my email address and began informing folks all over the world about products and services designed to make someone else rich, on my behalf.

OK, we've all been the victim of someone we know having an infected computer and it sends out a few hundred emails with our address on them. Its annoying having to answer people and tell them that "I didn't send that to you!" Sometimes its the people who receive the messages who scold you telling you they don't need that kind of medication, or prefer to use properly licensed software. Other times it comes from very helpful meaning servers letting you know that your message has been blocked because it met the criteria for bulk mail, and how you can contact them in case your message wasn't.

But I've never been the victim of it on this scale. At one point yesterday non-delivery messages poured in one every other second or so! My inbox was FLOODED from servers all around the world as evidenced by the Chinese, Japanese, Russian, French, and other languages represented. Servers in the US, the UK and all over told me that I had been placed on their black lists.

Black lists? But wait - what if some day I really *DO* need to reach someone at your organization? <sigh>

I set up a rule to automatically delete NDN messages so that my inbox would not overflow. Now I won't see the messages from folks that I really do need to get in touch with. But at least I can keep my inbox working. I would estimate based on what I deleted, and what was in my postini pre-filter, somewhere on the order of over 1000 non delivery messages have been received in the last 24h.

If only 1:20 servers sent a message, that would be 20,000 people whom my alter-ego emailed. If its 1:50, well - I guess I was very busy while I slept last night. And I have to ask myself how many other people had their identity stolen last night?

The last time this happened to me it wasn't this bad, and I had to change my email address. That was a few thousand messages off of an address harvested from my website. I don't post it like that anymore - but apparently I didn't need to.

Puricii tv sunt, ca si fasaitul radio de pe frecventele AM, ecouri ale Big Bang. Pare greu de crezut dar experimentele pe care fizicienii de la acceleratorul de particule de la CERN, Elvetia, le vor face incepind din iulie, se ocupa doar de asta. Echipa si-a propus sa recreeze in conditii de laborator, adica ciocnind protoni intre ei si ciulind urechile, primele momente de existenta ale universului de imediat dupa explozia initiala. Pentru asta cei de la CERN s-au pregatit timp de 14 ani, in octombrie anul trecut devenind primii utilizatori ai Internet2, banda de 100 Gb/s fiind suficienta, deocamdata, pentru transferurile gigantice de date pe care le vor avea de analizat ca sa auda sunetul primordial. Si sa impartaseasca proba de microfon intergalactic a ceva ce ar putea fi numit dumnezeu sau, cum e botezat deocamdata prin rapoartele lor de activitate, "the god particle".

Despre Large Hadron Collider, cel mai mare gadget insarcinat cu accelerarea de particule elementare, puteti afla mai multe dintr-un documentar BBC sau ducindu-va pana acolo incepind cu 6 aprilie 2008. Daca experimentul va produce, la propriu, gauri negre prin materia planetei, ramane de vazut. In orice caz, nu pricep ce ar cauta oamenii de stiinta de la CERN tocmai in Hawaii, unde doi cercetatori exotici i-au dat in judecata incercind sa amane inceperea bombardamentelor de particule de teama impactului asupra mediului.

Abia astept sa downloadez mp3-ul cu inregistrarea fidela a Primului Sunet, ca sa ma pot apuca de remix. Pana atunci, ma joc cu un track al lui Dyslex, altul decat cele de pe MySpace. Ca haos sonor, e tot pe-acolo.