talk of the trade

    A few days ago the Deputy Director of the CIA, Dawn Meyerriecks delivered a keynote address at the GEOINT2018 conference, claiming that advancements of the use of technology make it difficult for the CIA operatives to move freely - even when they aren't physically tailed by the local counter-intelligence. But it's not solely about  the survive of an undercover operative. Because if a well-trained and experienced field agent can not evade AI-powered mass surveillance it means not a single one of us could.

    Whatever system you are using, if it is having some sort of data input interface, an external power supply and potentially a connection to the net - it can be hacked. Period. What you have to bear in mind is that actual hacking is not doing something that everyone does, actual hacking is doing something that no one does. What I describe here is a simple method to circumvent most protective means, let these be software or hardware-based ones. It needs no code to run on the system and consequently there is no defense against it (alas, there is one - but read on! :) ).

    The applications of commercial AI techs are now becoming pretty much widespread and with the tremendous capacity boom regarding processing speed, storage size and sensory sensitiveness these are yielding more and more for the industry. But every time it comes to the age-old question, whether "could machines one day think as humans do?" there is no clear answer yet. The human decision is not necessarily based on sensing  and comparison with the full knowledge  - but on the possible ensuing logical course of action. And here I try to provide a possible way to getting the machines think more similar to the humans.

    Time after time, North Korea manages to steer itself into the lime-lights of the global media and usually it does so by threatening the outside World. It is pretty much understood that this tiny country is armed to the teeth and that it is having an elite ruling its population with an iron fist. And yes, they have nuclear warheads and rockets of various sizes in various stages of development. But North Korea's forte is actually its greatest weakness. Because it is based on the forced conscription of its population. No matter whether we are looking at a kindergarten, a factory, a ministry, the politbüro or the army: every kid, woman and man is actually serving their national service - indefinitely. And conscription has its weaknesses, and these weaknesses are actually numerous.