U.S. Cyber Command logo / 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a

Researcher cracks 'secret' code in U.S. Cyber Command logo MD5 cryptographic hash translates into cyber defense command's mission statement

A security researcher said on Thursday he was the first to crack the code embedded in the seal of the U.S. Cyber Command (Cybercom), the group responsible for protecting the country's military networks from attack.

Sean-Paul Correll, a threat researcher with antivirus vendor Panda Security, said that the characters visible in a gold ring on Cybercom's official seal represent the MD5 hash of the group's mission statement. MD5 is a 128-bit cryptographic hash most often used to verify file integrity.

A representative of Cybercom confirmed that Correll had it right. " Mr. Correll is correct...it's a MD5 hash," said Lt. Commander Steve Curry of the U.S. Navy, in an e-mail.

"It wasn't very difficult," said Correll, adding that thanks to the clue on Wired.com's Danger Room blog, it took him just a few minutes to figure out that the characters -- 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a -- were the hash value for Cybercom's mission statement.

"I knew right away it was an MD5 hash, and I was fairly confident that it wasn't a specific file," said Correll, adding that security professionals will often use an MD5 hash as reminders, or to verify that a file's contents after downloading match the original edition.

Correll said he figured out the mystery shortly after 10 a.m. PT Wednesday, within an hour of Wired.com publishing its story.

At least one other code-breaker came up with the same solution. Buried in the nearly 500 comments added to the Wired.com story was the solution, posted Wednesday at 12:46 p.m. PT by someone identified only as "jemelehill".

In a follow-up story, Wired.com credited jemelehill with first decoding the message.

"Information security professionals are very challenge driven," said Correll, so tackling the problem was fun...while it lasted. "Absolutely, this was definitely fun," he said.

Correll is familiar with code-breaking problems, since Panda regularly sponsors secret code challenges. The next challenge is scheduled to go live at 3:00 a.m. ET Saturday, 12:00 a.m. PT.

The MD5 value is a hash of Cybercom's 58-word mission statement, Correll noted on his blog: "USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries."

Cybercom was created in June 2009, when Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved the group. Two months ago, the Senate appointed Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander as the head Cybercom. Alexander is also the director of the National Security Agency (NSA).

U.S. Cyber Command is part of the U.S. Strategic Command, and is based in Fort Meade, MD. Several units of the U.S. military, including ones from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines comprise Cybercom.

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Found Here: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179004/Researcher_cracks_secret_code_in_U.S._Cyber_Command_logo?taxonomyId=13

Illuminati Card Game created in 1995

Two cards from the Illuminati Card Game created in 1995 ... several years before 9/11

In 1990, role-playing inventor, Steve Jackson, was planning his newest game, which he would ultimately call the Illuminati -- New World Order Game, or "INWO" for short.

As you can see from the picture above, one card shows the first Twin Towers of the World Trade Center being hit by "Terrorists" at the distance it actually occured during 9/11 and another one shows the Pentagon in fire at is center, the rest being intact. As we know a plane allegedly flew into a section of the Pentagon and nearly burned that section completely. However, the rest of the Pentagon was undamaged to the point where its functions continued unimpeded.

Of course this could be a coïncidence. But strangely his company has been visited by the secret service on March 1 1990 as reported on their site sjgames vs. the Secret Service: "A large amount of equipment was seized, including four computers, two laser printers, some loose hard disks and a great deal of assorted hardware. One of the computers was the one running the Illuminati BBS".

My hypothesis are these:

1°) It's pure coïncidence as said already

2°) Steve Jackson met insiders like Brzezinski, the right hand of Rockefeller or Aaron Russo who revealed that Nick Rockefeller had announced him some big event and that after that event the US would invade Irak - nevertheless it's must be somebody else than Russo since Nick Rockfeller never told him precisely it would be the WTC or the Pentagon !

3°) Steve Jackson is himself a Secret Agent who has fabricated a covert to create an apparent opposition to the system by controlling an organization called "Electronic Frontier Foundation" which fights for privacy today.

Second hypothesis may be the most plausible but I don't discard the third one when I know that there is a very strong habit from the secret service to fabricate and/or control fake opposition (this is the basics of Hegelian Dialectic used for propaganda) see the case of Gloria Steinem, the iconic figure of Feminist Party who had been a CIA agent and whose magazine has been funded by them (if you want to know why Nick Rockfeller told Aaron Russo the two fundamental reasons).

There is no way I can choose between the three and you ? Maybe you have other hypothesis (Steve Jackson met a psychic for example ... like me :) once)

Found Here: http://hubpages.com/hub/Illuminati_Game_Cards

In 1990 an Illuminati Card Game was invented by Steven Jackson. The 'game' he had created ruffled quite a few feathers as he was promptly visited by the Secret Service who tried to shut him down and prevent the cards from being released. You can read Jacksons own account of the raid Here.

Apparrently Jackson must have either had some type of insider knowledge or the foresight of Nostrodumus because the game he created has turned out to be very close to the real thing. Several of the cards depict events in modern history that either have, or soon will occurr, including the attacks on the world trade center and pentagon.

Found Here: http://911truth.ozempire.com/illuminati.html

Oil spill card of Illuminati Card Game proves that - The entire oil spill incident was planned to bring down America.

Likewise another card, issued well before 9-11, showed the twin towers being taken down is one of the most shocking of all, especially in light of the fact that this game first hit the specialty stores in 1995! How in the world did Steve Jackson know that the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were going to be attacked? In fact, this card accurately depicted the World Trade Center attack in great detail. This card accurately depicts several facts of 9/11 — on cards created all the way back in 1995! The picture accurately depicts:

* That one tower was going to be struck first; this picture accurately depicts the moments between the first tower strike and the second.

* The card accurately depicts that the place of impact is some distance from the top of the twin towers. The plane hit in this approximate area of the first tower. How in the world could Steve Jackson know this fact?

Found Here: http://www.ufo-blogger.com/2010/05/illuminati-card-game-bp-oil-spill.html

The Amero - Currency of the North American Union

Amero

The North American currency union is a controversial proposal in which the three principal countries of North America, namely Canada, the United States and Mexico, would share a common currency. Implementation would probably involve the three countries giving up current currency units (Canadian dollar, US dollar and Mexican peso) and adopting a new one, created specifically for this purpose. The hypothetical currency for the union is sometimes referred to as the amero. The concept is modeled on the common European Union currency (the euro) and it is argued to be a natural extension of NAFTA. Conspiracy theorists contend that the governments of the US, Canada, and Mexico are already taking steps to implement such a currency.



The idea for a North American currency union was first proposed in 1999 by Canadian economist Herbert G. Grubel. A senior fellow of the Fraser Institute think-tank, he published a book entitled The Case for the Amero in September 1999, the year that the euro became a virtual currency. Another Canadian think-tank, the conservative C.D. Howe Institute, advocates the creation of a shared currency between Canada and the United States.

After the report came out, centre-left nationalist groups in Canada expressed their opposition to any currency union because they view it as an attempt by American businesses to gain access to Canada's extensive natural resources while dismantling the nation's social services. The 100,000 member strong Council of Canadians, a progressive advocacy group, has declared one of its central issues to be the threat of "deep integration."

The idea envisioned a currency union of the amero would mix the two dollars, and the peso, or it could also simply be dollarization of the American currency.

Some assert that having a single North American currency would be unconstitutional under the current U.S. constitution under Article 1, Section 8; which states that the United States Congress has the right to “coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;”.

This concern rests on the contention that the Federal Reserve, created in 1913, is unconstitutionally issuing and regulating American currency as it is a quasi-government entity and not part of the legislative branch of the United States government. While physical U.S. Dollars are issued by the Department of the Treasury (in paper form by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in coin form by the U.S. Mint), most dollars in existence are not in physical form, and the value of the dollar is largely controlled by the actions of the Federal Reserve in lending and purchasing government securities.

Found Here: http://lifeoverdeath.org/amero.htm