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    Details of “Einstein” Cyber Shield Disclosed by White House

    The Obama administration lifted the veil Tuesday on a highly-secretive set of policies to defend the U.S. from cyber attacks.

    It was an open secret that the National Security Agency was bolstering a Homeland Security program to detect and respond to cyber attacks on government systems, but a summary of that program declassified Tuesday provides more details of NSA’s role in a Homeland program known as Einstein.

    The current version of the program is widely seen as providing meager protection against attack, but a new version being built will be more robust–largely because it’s rooted in NSA technology. The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary.

    Homeland Security will then strip out identifying information and pass along data on new threats to NSA. It will also use threat information from NSA to better identify emerging cyber attacks.

    NSA’s role is a careful balance because of the political battles that ensued over the agency’s role in domestic surveillance in the George W. Bush administration. Declassifying details of the NSA’s role, in a program initially developed during the Bush administration and continued in the Obama administration, will likely ignite new debates over privacy.

    The White House’s new cyber-security chief, Howard Schmidt, announced the move to declassify the program in a speech at the RSA conference in San Francisco–his first major public address since assuming the post in January. He said addressing potential privacy concerns was one of the ten initial steps he planned to take. “We’re really paying attention, and we get it,” he said.
    http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/03/02/%E2%80%9Ceinstein%E2%80%9D-program-disclosed-as-us-cyber-shield/?blog_id=100&post_id=11601

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    SAN FRANCISCO--Homeland Security and the National Security Agency may be taking a closer look at Internet communications in the future.

    The Department of Homeland Security's top cybersecurity official told CNET on Wednesday that the department may eventually extend its Einstein technology, which is designed to detect and prevent electronic attacks, to networks operated by the private sector. The technology was created for federal networks.

    Greg Schaffer, assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications, said in an interview that the department is evaluating whether Einstein "makes sense for expansion to critical infrastructure spaces" over time.

    Not much is known about how Einstein works, and the House Intelligence Committee once charged that descriptions were overly "vague" because of "excessive classification." The White House did confirm this week that the latest version, called Einstein 3, involves attempting to thwart in-progress cyberattacks by sharing information with the National Security Agency.

    Greater federal involvement in privately operated networks may spark privacy or surveillance concerns, not least because of the NSA's central involvement in the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping scandal. Earlier reports have said that Einstein 3 has the ability to read the content of emails and other messages, and that AT&T has been asked to test the system. (The Obama administration says the "contents" of communications are not shared with the NSA.)

    "I don't think you have to be Big Brother in order to provide a level of protection either for federal government systems or otherwise," Schaffer said. "As a practical matter, you're looking at data that's relevant to malicious activity, and that's the data that you're focused on. It's not necessary to go into a space where someone will say you're acting like Big Brother. It can be done without crossing over into a space that's problematic from a privacy perspective."

    If Einstein 3 does perform as well as Homeland Security hopes, it could help less-prepared companies fend off cyberattacks, including worms sent through e-mail, phishing attempts, and even denial of service attacks.

    On the other hand, civil libertarians are sure to raise questions about privacy, access, and how Einstein could be used in the future. If it can perform deep packet inspection to prevent botnets from accessing certain Web pages, for instance, could it also be used to prevent a human from accessing illegal pornography, copyright-infringing music, or offshore gambling sites?

    "It's one thing for the government to monitor its own systems for malicious code and intrusions," said Greg Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. "It's quite another for the government to monitor private networks for those intrusions. We'd be concerned about any notion that a governmental monitoring system like Einstein would be extended to private networks."

    AT&T did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.

    Cooperation, or a loss of control?
    At the RSA Conference here on Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stressed the need for more cooperation between the government and the private sector on cybersecurity, saying that "we need to have a system that works together."

    During a House appropriations hearing on February 26, Napolitano refused to discuss Einstein 3 unless the hearing were closed to the public. "I don't want to comment publicly on Einstein 3, per se, here in an unclassified setting," she said. "What I would suggest, perhaps, is a classified briefing for members of the subcommittee who are interested."

    Some privacy concerns about Einstein have popped up before. An American Bar Association panel said this about Einstein 3 in a September 2009 report: "Because government communications are commingled with the private communications of non-governmental actors who use the same system, great caution will be necessary to insure that privacy and civil liberties concerns are adequately considered."

    Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher and programmer for the Tor anonymity project, said that expanding Einstein 3 to the private sector would amount to a partial outsourcing of security. "It's clearly a win for people without the security know-how to protect their own networks," Appelbaum said. "It's also a clear loss of control. And anyone with access to that monitoring system, legitimate or otherwise, would be able to monitor amazing amounts of traffic."

    Einstein grew out of a still-classified executive order, called National Security Presidential Directive 54, that President Bush signed in 2008.

    While little information is available, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff once likened it to a new "Manhattan Project," and the Washington Post reported that the accompanying cybersecurity initiative represented the "single largest request for funds" in last year's classified intelligence budget. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit (PDF) to obtain the text of the order.

    Homeland Security has published (PDF) a privacy impact assessment for a less capable system called Einstein 2--which aimed to do intrusion detection and not prevention--but has not done so for Einstein 3.

    The department did, however, prepare a general set of guidelines (PDF) for privacy and civil liberties in June 2009. In addition, the Bush Justice Department wrote a memo (PDF) saying Einstein 2 "complies with" the U.S. Constitution and federal wiretap laws.

    That justification for Einstein 2 "turned on the consent of employees in the government that are being communicated with, and on the notion that a person who communicates with the government can't then complain that the government read the communication," said CDT's Nojeim. "How does that legal justification work should Einstein be extended to the private sector?"

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10463665-38.html

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    Winds of Change

    This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growing supermassive black hole. The X-ray images and spectra obtained using Chandra's High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer show that a strong wind is being driven away from the center of NGC 1068 at a rate of about a million miles per hour. This wind is likely generated as surrounding gas is accelerated and heated as it swirls toward the black hole. A portion of the gas is pulled into the black hole, but some of it is blown away. High energy X-rays produced by the gas near the black hole heat the ouflowing gas, causing it to glow at lower X-ray energies.

    X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in red, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope in green and radio data from the Very Large Array in blue. The spiral structure of NGC 1068 is shown by the X-ray and optical data, and a jet powered by the central supermassive black hole is shown by the radio data.

    This Chandra study is much deeper than previous X-ray observations. Using this data, researchers believe that each year several times the mass of our sun is being deposited out to large distances, about 3,000 light years from the black hole. The wind likely carries enough energy to heat the surrounding gas and suppress extra star formation.

    These results help explain how a supermassive black hole can alter the evolution of its host galaxy. It has long been suspected that material blown away from a black hole can affect its environment, but a key question has been whether such "black hole blowback" typically delivers enough power to have a significant impact.

    NGC 1068 is located about 50 million light years from Earth and contains a supermassive black hole about twice as massive as the one in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy.

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    [quote author=the color nine link=topic=24292.msg1552759#msg1552759 date=1267616706]
    Clinical study proved Olay Pro-x as good as prescription for wrinkles

    In the current study, 99 women volunteers were given a regimen of three Olay Pro-x products, and 97 were prescribed tretinoin. The depth of their wrinkles was assessed before and after the treatments, and those assessing them were not told which product the women were using.

    After eight weeks, the women using Pro-x showed a significant improvement in the appearance of their wrinkles compared with those using tretinoin. The women also tolerated Pro-x better than tretinoin, which caused irritation in some of the women.

    Some of the volunteers were followed for a further 16 weeks, after which both treatments were judged to have improved the appearance of wrinkles to about the same extent.

    "This is the first time that a cosmetic product has been tested head-to-head against a drug product over a long period of time and they've shown parity," says Mandy. "This is pretty landmark stuff."

    http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122541851/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
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    out of all the AWESOME things in this thread, this is what i am gonna comment on... hahah
    but this pretty cool.  i just bought loreal lotion yesterday but im gonna pick some of this up next time. 

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    [quote author=ZoMyGoddess! link=topic=24292.msg1556688#msg1556688 date=1267986023]
    out of all the AWESOME things in this thread, this is what i am gonna comment on... hahah
    but this pretty cool.  i just bought loreal lotion yesterday but im gonna pick some of this up next time. 
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    I was so excited when I read the study.  


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    i am taking the pics of the earth and putting them into my powerpoints for my enviro-bio class.  those little nuts do not appreciate the damn earth.  im gonna make them look at the pics and THINK.  they hate it when i make them think.

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    [quote author=ZoMyGoddess! link=topic=24292.msg1556769#msg1556769 date=1267990665]
    i am taking the pics of the earth and putting them into my powerpoints for my enviro-bio class.  those little nuts do not appreciate the damn earth.  im gonna make them look at the pics and THINK.  they hate it when i make them think.
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    You could go here and take a look.

    http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/deforestation.php

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    This five-story, blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. When geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, they thought the red color came from algae, but its true nature turned out to be much more spectacular.

    Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

    The existence of the Blood Falls ecosystem shows that life is indeed possible in the most extreme of conditions. Life could perhaps exist on other planets with similar environments and similar bodies of frozen water - notably Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa. But regardless of extraterrestrial life, the earth's Blood Falls are a wonder to behold both visually, and scientifically.
    http://static.atlasobscura.com/place/blood-falls

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    Hate Mail from Third Graders
    "It's not easy being a public enemy," writes Neil deGrasse Tyson in his book The Pluto Files. When Neil's museum grouped Pluto not among the planets but rather with icy comets in an obscure region called the Kuiper Belt, he heard from thousands of outraged Pluto defenders. It's tough being called a heartless Pluto-hater, particularly by a dismayed eight-year-old. In this slide show, peruse a few of the letters elementary schoolkids sent Neil, and see how their tone shifted over the years, as the public slowly came to accept Pluto's fall from planethood
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    Ooooo..I love this thread!  I work at a Museum!  Someone please tell me how to post pictures and movies.  Can't seem to figure it out.  Silly me!

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    [quote author=irishkat link=topic=24292.msg1560889#msg1560889 date=1268337175]
    Ooooo..I love this thread!  I work at a Museum!  Someone please tell me how to post pictures and movies.  Can't seem to figure it out.  Silly me!
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    Pictures you can upload and host at Tinypic.com.  I only post videos from youtube because all you have to do is paste the address the movie is on. :lol:

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    no more space pics
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vyB-O5i6E

    Just giving this a try with my favorite video.  Levitating Frog!

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    The sun in motion
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnsABdOwUuk


    Site *warning* this site makes me a little queasy for some reason
    http://www.thesuninmotion.com/
    Youtube site
    http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ExtremeSolar

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    view moving images sent from Landsat satellites




    http://earthnow.usgs.gov/earthnow_app.html?sessionId=0729f827cc0db0ae42c074 b4b24691fe94560

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    I came in here to say I am currently on the bus with 13 students on our way to a robotics competition. Because their teacher was "dismissed" they are just going as spectators. I bought them poptarts and vitamin water to make them feel better.  :2sad:

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    [quote author=ZoMyGoddess! link=topic=24292.msg1561776#msg1561776 date=1268402381]
    I came in here to say I am currently on the bus with 13 students on our way to a robotics competition. Because their teacher was "dismissed" they are just going as spectators. I bought them poptarts and vitamin water to make them feel better.  :2sad:
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    Having fun yet?  :lol:

    Do you have a camera with you?

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    [quote author=the color nine link=topic=24292.msg1561782#msg1561782 date=1268402974]

    Having fun yet?  :lol:

    Do you have a camera with you?
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    lol I only have my phone. I took them to the toys r us at times square at lunch time hahaha it was awesome. I played dance dance revolution and took pics w spiderman and Lego man. I was uber nerd today lol. I'll post a couple of pics in speak here when I get a chance.

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    [quote author=ZoMyGoddess! link=topic=24292.msg1562241#msg1562241 date=1268432786]
    lol I only have my phone. I took them to the toys r us at times square at lunch time hahaha it was awesome. I played dance dance revolution and took pics w spiderman and Lego man. I was uber nerd today lol. I'll post a couple of pics in speak here when I get a chance.
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    Let me know when you do it.  I usually don't go into speak here unless I see a flurry of activity and I want to see what the hell is happening now.   :2smiley:

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    http://www.popsci.com/archives

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    My favorite, brilliant weedhead. 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwL_zi9JNkE

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