Gawd, can't remember when I've enjoyed a product announcement as much as this BS. Or had as much ROTFL (Rolling on the Floor Laughing) stimulation as I've gotten from Signal Magazine's crusader's march into the shadow-lands of info-war. Just when many of us are starting to take the risk of info-war seriously, here we have a healthy reminder of just what sort of zeitgeist Signal's readers (the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association) relate to. Talk about a demanding Signal/noise ratio!! While my stomach ache subsides, I'd like to emphatically echo Dave Kennedy's referral of the Wizards to a George Smith editorial about the Blitzkrieg Server in the Crypt Newsletter <http://www.soci.niu.edu/~crypt/other/blitz.htm> If you've never taken a trip on Smith's trolley past the outer limits, I also urge you to take the time to read the his on-line book excerpt ("The Virus Creation Labs.") Amazing stuff! ROTFL, with tears! Let me tease you with a couple of Smith quotes on the topic at hand: >Apparently, the "Blitzkrieg server" is powered by "self-programmed adaptive >automatacapsids--variable length string transformation rules." > >"When examined on an individual basis, no automatacapsid in and of itself >has any >meaning," said Wood for Signal. "The automatacapsid only has value in the >context >of the distributed Blitzkrieg server network collective . . . the adaptive >automatacapsids, like fragments of a living virus without a host cell, >transform one >another and data, and they spontaneously generate or regenerate new >automatacapsids to meet every conceivable complex data analysis need." <Snip> > >Wood goes on to say to Signal that his "automatacapsids" make the "Blitzkrieg >server" invincible. And they are dependent on another Wood discovery -- the >"unified general equation of motion -- or UGEM." > >Readers are informed the Wood Unified General Equation of Motion has something >to do with the control of complexity and all organization in nature. So >Blitzkrieg, >the scientist claimed in Signal, is "the first true virus-like collective >digital life >form." <snip> >[...] For those readers with an excessively dry sense of humor Crypt >Newsletter suggests much of this particular story seems accidentally >cloned from "Killswitch," an episode of The X-Files that aired earlier >this television season. In "Killswitch," a group of computer scientists, >one from Santa Fe, created the first digital life form -- a series of >"concatenated automata viruses." Scully and Mulder, along with the >bumbling editors of Lone Gunman magazine, tracked the intelligent >software to a crumbling trailer filled with computer hardware parked >in the woods near Fairfax, Virginia. The original Business Newswire >from May 6 was datelined -- Fairfax. Now, isn't that is the kind of probing reportage a Santa Fe-based infosec vendor that styles itself -- honest! -- the "Network Waffen Und Munistionsfabriken [sic] Group" deserves? Suerte, _Vin ----- Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <vinat_private> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --
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