At the moment nothing digital is secure due to the incompatibility
of analogue means of controlling the digital -- hardware, cable,
fiber, satellite, switches, I/O devices. Excuses abound for the
impossibility of digital security, for the steadyily increasing
admission of massive data breaches, the flood of patches and
updates no better than v.1.0, the neverending versions which
promise far more security than can be delivered -- although
there is nothing new in apoligia for failure that has not always
been true of security since the fraud was first invented by
invention of terrifying threats of enemies, sinfulness and
damnation, inate evil in the hearts of men, requring angelic
saviors, messiahs and merciful gods of impregnable gospels
and holy fortresses falling apart as soon as badly built.
Security means none to limited security, much of it very inept
and costumed for deceit, thus no security promulgator can
admit how ineffective it is and make a bucket of pensions.
Lying and cheating about security and trustworthiness
are obligatory in the military, religion, philosophy and
language.
Comsec means incomsec. Open source means its opposite.
There are far more reliable means to communicate but not
much money to be made in them until digital gravy of
outright fleecing sputters out.
It is worth noting that many of the early proponents of
unbreakable encryption have become very quiet. Perhaps
due to the rewards of NDA or maybe due to knowing the
goose is cooked.
At 03:21 PM 11/19/2011 +0100, you wrote:
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>C'mon, specifically this has possible applications in EM shielding.
>
>Extremely lightweight material, made of ordered structure of hollow metal
>nanofibers. This itself could have interesting applications.
>(Especially if coupled with various thin layers deposited on the
>structures, whether dielectric or resistive, or structures co-assembled
>from multiple materials.)
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>Now tweak the microstructure to be yet more controlled and regular, and
>voila, we have metamaterials working in far-IR to millimeter-wave region.
>And metamaterials themselves are an extremely interesting new field of
>material science.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial
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>For TSCM, the possible applications could range from shielding/cloaking to
>novel architectures of antennas.
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>
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>On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, bernieS wrote:
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>> Perhaps posted by the lightest TSCM intellect on earth, judging from his
>> lightest percentage of on-topic postings than anyone on this list ;-)
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>> At 11:28 PM 11/18/2011, you wrote:
>> > THE lightest material on earth.
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