Comments on: Quantum cryptography to protect electric grid security

By: rich

rich — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:22:47 +0000

Thank you for that reference. I was not familiar with Mr. Icke.

By: Klaatu

Klaatu — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:57:46 +0000

Great move. Didn’t Sen. McCain just announce, for the hundredth
time, that standards guarding against hacking “are too troublesome
and expensive” for adoption by private industry. The President
and his CIA chief know that if anything happens on a large scale
it will be beyond just politically embarrassing. When Rush & Beck
get going no one wiil remember standards or who said what when
the lights go out in entire sections & w/o being able to trace how
or who.

By: asiwel

asiwel — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:02:39 +0000

Yes, thinking a little more about this general idea. We talk a lot about smart or “intelligent” machines … but usually we are really talking about very sophisticated automated controllers, using sensors and data feedback loops, etc. We are seldom talking about “self-aware” machines. These (like us) would have an internal “model” of themselves and their role and purpose (or goal) in addition. They would have “values” and “attitudes” (i.e., predispositions for actions) and they would compare “perceptions” with this internal model and the likely predictable consequences of behaviors.. before “acting”. They would be “aware” that external efforts may be made to “fool” them as well as that external data is always suspect and error- and accident-prone (just as we are). And they would “know” that they can turn to others (other people … or other machines) for further advice in confusing situations. Thus, we might have a very smart “smart grid” … but not an infallible (and hence blindly obedient) one with “hardwired belief” in its own omniscience.

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:43:06 +0000

That question could probably be better answered over on the David Icke website: http://www.davidicke.com/articles/ufo-activity-mainmenu-69

By: Leonardo Arenas

Leonardo Arenas — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:36:39 +0000

Can these detect and preempt possible electromagnetic waves intrusion of our space by extra terrestrials?

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:34:20 +0000

I like this suggestion of a smart smart grid. I’ve often thought along a similar line of thinking. My thoughts were more of that this would happen naturally as computers become smarter. Basically the concept that you said. That it wouldn’t do things that would jeopardize the users. This is applicable to implanted medical devices, automated homes, automobiles, etc. That they are subcells of a VIKKI system. This could be particularly useful in personal computer devices and nodes of the web. That they would be self policing and draw attention to hacking activities. As we come closer to the singularity I think this will be more able to happen. That everything starts to become self aware and aware of it place and relationship to the whole. The smart dust that the military wants to use is a good example of how much it could be everywhere. This would be particularly effective against the gray goo. It would be hard to perform a gray goo attack if everything everywhere might be alarmed by it’s presence. It’s kind of like big brother taken to the extreme. I think this is coming about to some extent already. That the Internet is getting an antibody type response to viruses.

By: asiwel

asiwel — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:28:25 +0000

Well, I wouldn’t count too all that much on that. But we truly need a scalable, upgradeable, efficient “smart grid.” Perhaps part of that “smartness” might be a conceptual and functional model of how the grid is supposed to be working at various times and conditions – i.e. a “skeptical grid” that would think about and possibly not be as easily fooled by hackers sending odd or suspicious commands, encrypted or not. This smart grid might act more like an intelligent consumer who doesn’t necessarily trust advertisements (which are essentially intended to “hack” the mind sometimes!).

By: GAUSS

GAUSS — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:30:54 +0000

This is excellent. Finally we can get some relief from the onslaught of hacking all over the place.