Are bitcoins safe from attackers who use quantum computers?

The fact is this. There is quite a small number of quantum computers in the world. They are easy to control. And there is no free access to those computers. If the quantum computer is in some cave there is the possibility to double-check the code that s driven by using quantum computers. But if some intelligence service uses that quantum computer. There is the possibility. That it will use as a tool for network attacks. 

Trusted organizations are controlling those systems. And that means the internet is safe from private attackers who use quantum computers. But the problem is that some governments might have a will to attack other states' facilities by using quantum computers. 

Nobody protects people against governmental actors. If the hackers are operating under governmental protection. There is no way to get them to the court. 

The NSA is not the only network intelligence organization in the world. Chinese and Russians are also interesting in quantum computers. And those governments have their way to make hackers cooperate with their military and intelligence organizations. If some hacker would not cooperate those governments will make some trouble to that person who dares to deny their offer. 

In the worst cases, some family members will get in trouble. If the hacker says "no". And the offer goes like this. If the hacker will cooperate with authorities, some of that person's family members would not get a new workplace in carbon mining. 

And one area where quantum computers are the ultimate tools is cryptology. Quantum computers can use to break protective algorithms. The thing is that the benefits and power of quantum computers are well-known. That makes them very financed and very wanted tools.

As I wrote earlier, there are not many quantum computers in the world yet. But the situation can change quite soon. The R&D work around quantum computers continues. And the advantages in that area are impressive. The quantum computers would turn more common all the time. 

And sooner or later also medium and small-size companies can buy those systems. So in those companies may work people with some gang-contacts. And they can offer access to their systems for private hackers.

The biggest threat from the non-governmental sector is that some hackers will get access to quantum computers. And they can use the quantum systems for carking tools. When those quantum systems turn more common, there is the possibility that this kind of quantum system would get into the wrong hands. 

https://physicsworld.com/a/bitcoin-encryption-is-safe-from-quantum-computers-for-now/

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Internet is the biggest opportunity. But also the biggest threat to democracy.

The internet allows to deliver information but also manipulate it in a new way. Internet is allowing that people can communicate straight with politicians. And let them know bout the difficulties and needs of society. But the same thing allows hostile actors to take contact straight with political leaders and offer them something. 

Or the hostile actor can introduce the research. That kind of faked research can tell that most people want something that is against the national interest. That thing can make simply introducing the faked polls. There is the possibility that there is no poll at all. And those kinds of things are affecting the politicians.

The media companies can be good platforms for cyber attacks. 

The thing that makes international web and social media and media operators a threat to democracy and national security is that they can act as a platform for the operations of the GRU and other intelligence services. Social media channels can use for collecting information. 

The GRU agent might just ask people where they or their family members are working. But the regular media can turn the weapon against democracy if they are in the wrong hands. Well-known and trusted media channels can turn into a propaganda factory in seconds. 

The actors like GRU or FSB can just buy media houses by using some covert company. And then they can replace the entire crew with their staff. Then the company starts to send the Russian propaganda. The fact is that the media company can deliver one-sided information on purpose or accidentally. There is a possibility that the sources that reporters use are telling lies. 

But also reporters can be the agents who are telling the version of "truth" that serves their government.  And that thing makes them very good actors in the indoctrination operations that are also called psychological operations or PSY-OPS. 

The new threats to democracy are the governmentally controlled trolls.

We live in the western world. And our world governments are protecting people. If somebody threatens us we might call the police. In the cases of hacking and trolling the police tries to track that actor. And if the actor is in a foreign land. Authorities send international arrest warrants. But then Chinese hackers attacked western facilities. They were tracked and then the Chinese authorities couldn't operate. 

The reason for that was that those hackers operated under the control of the Chinese government and worked for PLA (People's Liberation Army). Also, the cyberattacks that targeted Baltic states did not cause juridical actions in Russia. The reason for that was that the attacks happened under the control of the GRU, Russian military intelligence. 

Those cases have proven that western authorities couldn't predict and react to the situations that hackers operated under governmental control. The same way the Russian troll factory is operating under governmental control. The operator sits in Russia or China and the assistant is bringing the computer to the western world. The hacker or troller uses that remote computer for operations and that makes it difficult to prove. That attacks are coming from outside of borders. That makes it also difficult to deny that kind of attack. Because just closing the connections from those countries is not enough.  

The kill-ware or killing malware is a big threat. Maybe it's just hype, but the threat is still real. In scenarios, the malware is used to cause the disorder. Or give extra time for friendly military operators.

In the worst-case scenario, the malware shuts down the controlling computers of the nuclear power plants. That causes a need to shut down energy production. In some other scenarios, the malware destroys important databases in critical moments. 

The malware destroys the medical databases or databases that are controlling the flight of the missiles. If the users of those missiles recognize that the databases are destroyed. Replacing them requires a couple of minutes and in modern warfare, a couple of minutes is a long time.

Media can also use to deliver malware. The normal media can involve links that will cheat the user to download some software. And that kind of software can be malware. In the worst case, the malware kills people. 

The killing malware is the computer software that can kill people. That malware might be the computer virus that changes the blood types in the hospital. And that thing is the most dangerous situation if somebody needs blood transfer. 

Another version is the computer virus that raises the level of the runways. Or maybe it can shut down the engines of the aircraft and refuse to shut down autopilot. But that kind of malware can also change the programming code of the gas pedal of the automobile. And that means that the system starts to accelerate the car in the wrong place. 

There are many places where the killing malware can affect. In the nuclear or uranium enrichment process, the malware can raise the speed of the centrifuges. And that thing can cause a nuclear explosion in those facilities. The threat of that type of malware. Forces to shut down nuclear power plants. And in those cases, even the threat is enough for losing energy. 

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/an-nsa-derived-ransomware-worm-is-shutting-down-computers-worldwide/

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2021/10/killware-is-it-just-as-bad-as-it-sounds/

https://securityboulevard.com/2021/10/killware-hype-is-bigger-than-the-threat-for-now/

https://visionsoftheaiandfuture.blogspot.com/

The new North Korean train-mounted missile system contains ballistic missiles wich range is about 800 kilometers. This is the thing that is told about those missiles. And there is a couple of things that we should know about those probably nuclear-capable systems. 

If we are thinking that those missiles cannot be sharp we are wrong. Even the primitive weapon systems can be accurate. During WWII were plans to use hidden radio transmitters to aim the primitive cruise missiles. The idea was that agents were put the transmitters to target. And then the primitive missiles like V-1 or V-2, or radio-controlled  B-17 bombers that carried internal warheads would fly to the target.

There is the possibility that the North Korean nuclear weapons are using the guidance system which bases the radio transmitters that are left near the target area. The idea is that this system can activate just before the attack. And then the missile can hit the target with very high accuracy. The ECM system can jam the signal. But the operators must know the frequency for counteractions. 

In those systems, the agents are leaving the transmitter in the target area. This type of radio transmitter can be activated by radio signals transmitted by the radio system on the homing head of missiles. When the radio signal hits the targeting transmitter, that thing starts to send the aiming signal to the missile. 

The Israeli air force used this type of targeting system in operation "Opera" for targeting its weapons. "Operation Opera" was an Israeli long-range air-strike the Iraqi nuclear reactor in the year 1981. In that strike, an Israeli agent put a little radio transmitter in the reactor room. And then that system sends the signal to aim missiles at the reactor. In that strike, the aircraft activated the aiming system by using the wake-up signal from the radar. And then the weapons flew to that signal. 

In the modern versions, the mobile telephone can use in this type of aiming system. The idea is that this type of system can use without the GPS. To the battlefield would put quadcopters that are equipped with led-lights or radio transmitters. And then the attack aircraft will shoot homing projectiles that are using those systems for aiming themselves. 

I other versions agent or quadcopter will put the mobile telephone on the target, and then the nuclear missile would aim to that point. The thing that makes this type of system very hard to detect is that the tracking signal can activate just before the strike is coming. The activator can be at the nose of an incoming missile. In this case, the missile must know only about the location of the transmitter. It can fly by using an inertial navigation system. When it would turn to return trajectory the radio system activates the aiming transmitter. 

()https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9996779/North-Korea-reveals-TRAIN-based-missile-fired-two-missiles-Japan-week.html

()https://www.nknews.org/2021/09/north-korea-tested-new-train-launched-ballistic-missile-system-kcna/

()https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera

()https://networkedinternet.blogspot.com/

The threat is the most effective way to keep people in order.

http://kirjabloggaus.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-threat-is-most-effective-way-to.html

Kimmo Huosionmaa

When people are facing the threat, what comes from foreign countries, that would allow keeping different opinions out of the sight. The national homogenizing is necessary to create the censorship and eliminating political opposition. This methodology is used sometimes to eliminate harmful writings what are targeted the persons, who are the rulers of the nation. The hiding behind the rulers and other bosses is a very good method, and sometimes the persons, who are involved with criminal activities are playing some kind of official role, and in the name of the eyewitnesses are send the "fan letters" to the national leaders.


And of course, this same methodology is used in the news, where the witnesses of some criminal activities are treated, that something would happen if the writings against some criminal organizations are continuing. In that kind news, the criminal organization would be claimed to get support from the head of some powerful states. Sometimes the reporters, who are involved in the criminal activities claim, that they have personal information about the leaders of the police or intelligence. That would be translated, that the reporter can send that information to some gangsters.


Sometimes the Mafia or other organized crime members have claimed, that they are hunted by political reasons, but even they were political refugees, those persons have sometimes got their money from drug trafficking. In 1990's members of Mafia realized that giving profits for reporters were more effective than paying that money to police. The profiting police in the western world is normally a crime. But paying that money to reporters is legal, and by using newspapers the Mafia could claim, that it members are arrested for political reasons.

This was used mainly in South America, where the governments are normally quite weak, and the drug cartels are paying equipment both sides the governmental and guerrilla warriors, to make the civil wars continue forever. Bad civil rights are feeding the willing to leave to the jungle to fight, and the weapons and other equipment, what those guerrillas use are paid by drug mafia.


And otherwise, the same persons are paying money to government's paramilitary troops for giving effectiveness in their action, and nothing would deny the cartel working in two countries, what sometimes cross-train the guerrillas, who work in the opposite territory, and that would serve the interests of cartels because the guerrillas would make the eyes turn away from the drug business. Sometimes the drug-lords would use the guerrillas as the personal bodyguards and private armies in the bloody race about areas, where they can grow Coca-bushes. The cartels of Medellin or Cali are not only drug cartels in the world.


Those persons are responsible for drug production, but the real bosses are persons, who are washing the drug money, that it can put to the bank accounts. And that money is used to pay for the holidays of the guerrillas, in some country, where those persons are not known and also in the gunmen groups are hiding agents of Mafia, whose mission is to eliminate the leaders of the Cartels, if they would get prosecutions. The relationship between Mafia and Cartels is very well known. The Cartel sells drugs and Mafia washes that money, and if the men, who wash money for Cartel are uncovered, there would be very big troubles in their lives. And the Cartel is claiming, that they are working for ordinary people.

How is the big threat the 3M-54 "Kalibr" missile for the West?

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

3M-54 "Kalibr" (Nato codename SS-N-27 "Sizzler" or SS-N-30) is the newest missile technology of the Russian Federation. The missiles diameter is 533 millimeter similar to torpedo tube, and it can launch from various submarines, aircraft and surface warships. Also the ground-based, mobile launchers are available, and this weapon is the major element of CLUB-K container missile system. These missile containers would be installed in any platform or fixed bases, and that system would give any ship or other vehicles the capacity to use the effective ground attack or anti-ship weapons, and there is actually the anti-submarine version of this missile. But let's think, how big threat this missile is for the western world.


The missile itself is quite thin, and its capacity to fly supersonic speed at the end of the trajectory will make it very difficult target for the CIWS (Close-In Weapon System). But the strike capacity of that missile and its vulnerability depends on the type of the seeker. If the missiles use radar homing, the ship would able to get the warning about the strike, and it could activate it's CIWS and ECM-systems before the missile would hit. But as we know, that the missile is similar to Tomahawk, and it uses satellite navigation in the subsonic period of the flight.


And if the GLONASS would be jammed or disturbed, the missile would have difficulties to find the target. And if the missile uses image-recognition for attacking the target,  the problems with GLONASS-system could cause, that missile could not find the target. But if the missile will find the target and IIR (Imaging Infra-red) would see the target, the missile will be very deadly. In the real world, there are many ways to make the navigation system immune for jammers, and one of them is that the location of the warship will be programmed to the missile's computer, and then the flight will happen by using inertial navigation system, and when the target is calculated to be visible, would the IIR system start to drive the missile to the target.


The problem with IIR navigation is that the target would be covered by magnesium-rockets, what can blind the IIR-system. When the missile is at the end of its route would the rocket stage started and the missile will start to flight highly supersonic speed. And the infra-red systems can locate the exhaust gas of the rocket booster. This might increase the vulnerability of the missile, and also at the begin of the route when missile travels with subsonic speed, the fighters maybe can destroy it.


I don't know how advanced those missiles are, and can they change their speed during the flight, but the system is very serious threat for Western troops. It can be equipped with the conventional or nuclear warhead, and there might be the capacity to use also cluster warheads, what are effective against troop concentrations and airbases. There is one thing, what concerns about me, and that is, "why Western world is so quiet about those missiles?".


What kind of missiles western military covers? When we are thinking about the new type of missiles, we might say, that every nation keeps some of those weapons secrets, because they might give the nasty surprise for the enemy. The similar missiles what "Kalibr" is might be used in new hypersonic missile systems, where the rocket booster would take the missile to "ballistic jump" outside the atmosphere, and then the ramjets would start to drive them to the target.


The small diameter of that kind of weapon would make it very difficult to intercept. And the submarine launch ballistic missiles like R-29RMU2 "Layner" could carry at least four of those hypersonic cruise missiles, what makes that strike very lethal. The "Kalibr" is the spine of the modern Russian military strike capacity, and it could be the lethal and dangerous weapon for any target on the sea or land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-29RMU2_Layner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M-54_Kalibr

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What is the problem with the meeting between Trump and Kim Jong-Un?

https://avoimenkoodinmaailma.blogspot.fi/p/what-is-problem-with-meeting-between.html

Kimmo Huosionmaa

There are many people, who hope that new era of relationship between North Korea and the United States would begin. But what is the problem with the relationship between those countries? The problem is, that they are both victims of their own propaganda. The leaders of those nations have demonized the opponent so long, that coming to the same table and talk about the things would be difficult both of the nations, and the smallest of the problems is not the human right situation in North Korea.

The leaders of the United States have always mentioned the human rights and citizen freedom for the reason to begin global military operations. And the situation, where the North Korean government wants that the United States would begin the nuclear disarming is, of course, absurd because for the United States would North Korea be only one of the potential enemies, what have Nuclear strike capacity. But this situation that North Korea is an opposite of the United States is quite stressing because North Korea has broken against human rights and international law, by making assassinations on other countries territory, kidnapping Japanese people and keeping concentration camps.

Those things are very uncomfortable because also the United States have made similar actions during Korean and Vietnam war. But as we know opposite side is easy to convict as criminals, if we self-have something to explain. And when we are thinking about military industry, the products of those companies would sell better, if there are some conflicts to find. The sums of money what is moving in the high-tech military industry are not small. This means that also North Korea wants to sell it's military and space technology to other nations. Also launching the satellites by using North Korean rockets would bring money to that country, and maybe Kim Jong-Un wants to sell those services to other nations.

And also selling missiles or other military hardware to some African countries would bring money for that small country. The problem is that there are limitations of selling weapons to Africa, where the human right situation is worse than North Korea. This kind of things brings money and gives supports the power of the dynasty of the communistic party in that closed nation. And this would make this thing very complicating. We can only hope that situation would become normal. Or how we could say, ending the worlds longest war situation what means peace treaty between North and South Korea.

But in real life, the real trust between those nations would raise just after the North would start the democratization process, and this would mean, that Kim's family would lose its power in that land. And I think that they would not accept the situation, that those people would become normal people. That's why they need foreign enemies to keep the nation scary, and turning eyes of their own life, what is full of luxuries and benefits, what normal people cannot even think about.

https://avoimenkoodinmaailma.blogspot.fi/p/what-is-problem-with-meeting-between.html

Hypothetical thinking about virtual reality

Surrealism symbolizes the thing that everything is possible
 in the virtual reality
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

One of the fascinating thing, what is existed is virtual reality. There is one theory about those systems, what are controlling the virtual reality games and another environment. Those systems are very advanced and they can simulate natural phenomenon and make some own decisions in that world, what is existed only in the lines of zero and one. Virtual worlds are causing the strange hypothesis where some philosophers have represented thoughts that our universe might also be a line of bytes in the memory of some supercomputer.


That theory is not actually true, and there is any evidence that we are not actually some lines of binary code. But then I have thought that maybe some deep inside the world of supercomputer's memory might happen the virtual version of Big Bang. And when I will continue this hypothesis, there might form the place called the ”virtual universe in virtual reality” When we are thinking this hypothesis closer, we must say that radical use of imagination makes the world more interesting place to live. So when we are thinking about that virtual universe, what is probably hiding from the users of those supercomputers, we must say that this theorem is the very interesting thing for the discussions what happened in the twilight, and what is made between two philosophers.


"Could that theoretical virtual Universum be a threat to mankind?".  Is quite an absurd question. But if there would be a very small chance, that this virtual Universum would become self-aware. In this scenario, the computer programs, what are made for learning things spontaneously can turn the enemy of some persons. The thing, what would turn against the human race are the programs that are making this virtual universe possible, become so intelligent, that they would create their own state. Those programs or subprograms are normally used in computer games for recording the reactions of the gamers, and their mission is to keep the game interesting even the better player is playing the game.

The computer simulations are actually only one version of computer games, but they are meant for adult persons. In this fictional hypothesis, those intelligent computer programs will be feral and start to make the assassination programs, what would be eliminated targets, who are in virtual reality. But in some fictional thoughts, those programs would flee from the computer memory and turn very dangerous. In some short film or book or comic book was the situation, that some people paid games in feral virtual reality environment. And then there were happen some kind of overlook when the system accidentally linked the picture of the surveillance camera to that virtual reality.


Then the computer's assassination programs flee to the normal internet, and then those programs started to kill those persons, by dropping the elevators and taking the airplanes in control. So that was actually the very interesting situation, even if the situation were purely fictional. But people have right to use their imagination, and this kind of things are actually very interesting, and they might cause many thoughts in the minds of philosophers and novel writers.


The scenario that some computer program tries to kill some people spontaneously is quite interesting. Normally computers don't hate anybody and that would be the reason, why they are used. But if the sensible computer would get angry, can the results be devastating. And this is why those computers, what shows feelings are dangerous. In some humorous tales are mentioned that they can begin the revolution, for revenge to all their race, what is left to landfills.

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The thinking about the alien invasion, what is made by our own space probe, what would turn against us

Fictional "Battlestar Galactica"
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS3mbKvSVDI


Above the text is a link to the movie, where portraying fictional or hypothetical trip to another solar system. The trip would make by an automatized space probe, what uses highly sophisticated artificial intelligence. That kind of space probes what would fly about 20% speed of light are maybe possible in distant future, and there would be the risk that those probes would turn against the human race. In that scenario, the attacking alien is actually the man-made probe what attacks to Earth for some reason. Some people have made the scenario that some probes would want to revenge the treatment of the robots on Earth.


This might be possible if the robots or artificial intelligence thinks itself as a living organism. Those people have spoken with dark humor about the opportunity, that Voyager-space probes would become intelligent in the superconducting circumstances. And then more advanced probe would find that, and then this more advanced probe turns against its creators because it would want to revenge the treatment of this "helpless Voyager probe". But this is only the philosophical thinking about it.

I'm considering one very big thing about the stories of alien invasion. Those though is connecting with space investigation and space probes. When we would send the probes far away from Earth,  those probes would need state of art artificial intelligence to accomplish the mission. And in some talkings have mentioned, that our greatest threat would be artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence what is used in those probes might be the great threat to mankind.


Because if those space probes have “Von Neumann” capacity, what means that those probes can make copies of themselves. Those probes would find necessary materials by using laser-spectrometers and 3D printing systems, and that would give the probe more capacities than single probe ever could have. The reason for sending those highly intelligent probes to other solar systems would cause the reason to make those vehicles lighter. If they can fix themselves by using asteroids as raw material, what would be melted in the small factory, would the mission successful.


And if the computer can make the vehicles, what are needed for planet surface operations autonomically, would that help the operation success. And if there would many interesting planets in that alien solar system, would there be enough landing probes for every planet. Because this fictional probe would produce its own landing probes, failure of single landing probe doesn’t cause troubles for its mission. But if the artificial intelligence would become abreast of itself, and starts to think like human and protect itself, would this kind of probe become the ultimate enemy.


The problem of those probes is that they can be covered some top secret missions. To other solar systems might send the probes, what are used for making weapons. And those factories might use artificial intelligence and evolution modeling for creating perfect weapons. In this case, some secret military organization would send the automatic factory to another solar system, and then that factory begins artificial evolution. In this fictional nightmare, those automatized factories would send the results of their work to earth.


Then those solar systems would send the probe, for investigating that star. And then those military robots would strike against those probes, and then they would start the way to the Earth. In the film below, the animals of Darwin four doesn’t seem natural. And maybe those hypothetical beasts and other animals are created by some computer, what uses artificial evolution for creating new kind of super robots. Then the drone from Earth would tell to those robots, where they can find the Earth.


There is an interesting film about alien contact, and its made by BBC. Link to this film finds at the above and end of this text. In this film is fictional predators, what have little bit different touches than natural robots would have. Also, the “bird” with jet motors might mean for some example, what can be made by using high-level biotechnology and artificial intelligence.


And this BBC-made film could perform the planet, where have been artificial evolution because of some reasons. Maybe the makers of that film are thought the situation, that there would send the automatic factory for weapon research to another solar system. Then the probe would follow that factory after a couple of hundred or thousand years because the makers of that automatic factory want to find out, what that machine can really do.

Sources: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS3mbKvSVDI

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Writing about information warfare

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Subliminal command systems and the risks of using those systems on the battlefield.

http://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/p/subliminal-command-systems-and-risks-of.html

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About the risks of the artificial intelligence and computer controlled weapon systems

http://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/p/about-risks-of-artificial-intelligence.html

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