Nuclear Warhead Blueprints On Smugglers' Computers 637
imrehg links to a story at the Guardian which begins "Blueprints for a sophisticated and compact nuclear warhead have been found in the computers of the world's most notorious nuclear-smuggling racket, according to a leading US researcher. The digital designs, found in heavily encrypted computer files in Switzerland, are believed to be in the possession of the US authorities and of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna, but investigators fear they could have been extensively copied and sold to 'rogue' states via the nuclear black market." Reader this great guy links to the New York Times article on the discovery, and asks "Given that
Khan's revelations were made in early 2004, does that mean it took the IAEA
1-2 years to brute-force the encryption?"
Well, (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, come on, this is secret? (Score:5, Funny)
Let me be the first to say: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Garage Nukes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh, come on, this is secret? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh great. It's one thing for terrorists to have nukes, but even scarier for rabid web trolls to own nukes. Emacs vs. vi may be about to ramp it up...
Oh Crap! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let me be the first to say: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Let me be the first to say: (Score:5, Funny)
Garage nuke ? You probably mean GNUke ! (Score:5, Funny)
GNUke is an sophisticated and compact nuclear warhead - and more. At its core is are two pieces of piece of sub-critical material that can be combined into a supercritical mass for civil and military use alike.
GNUke is a GNU project which is similar to the Little Boy Bomb which was developed at Manhattan Project Laboratories by J. Robert Oppenheimer and colleagues. It can be considered as a different implementation of Litte Boy. There are some important differences, but much destruction wreaked through Little Boy can be achieved unaltered with GNUke.
One of GNUke's strengths is the ease with which well-produced fission-quality material can be included. Great care has been taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in the nuclear fission process, but the user retains full control.
GNUke blueprints are available as Free Documentation under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU Free Documentation License in source code form. It can easily be set up and functions on a wide variety of launch vehicles and similar systems (including B-29 Superfortresses and ICBMs).
Re:Garage Nukes (Score:4, Funny)
You are obviously too mature, perceptive, and reasonable to be on Slashdot. Please leave immediately, before you ruin the site's reputation.
Encryption key (Score:3, Funny)
Given that Khan's revelations were made in early 2004, does that mean it took the IAEA 1-2 years to brute-force the encryption?
The IAEA were pretty pissed when they found out that the key was 0xDEADBEEF
Re:Freight container is exactly right! (Score:2, Funny)
Well it just so happens I'm in the market for a new cell phone this month. Can you tell me which models will last many months on a single charge? That'd be a neat feature to have.
Re:Garage nuke ? You probably mean GNUke ! (Score:3, Funny)
brute-force the encryption? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Garage nuke ? You probably mean GNUke ! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:FPers for code cracking? (Score:3, Funny)
khan? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Garage Nukes (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Designing the bomb is easy (Score:1, Funny)
These days students probably couldn't even understand half the things these fellas wrote.
So the dumbing down of the world is part of keeping the nuclear secret?!?
Re:Closer than you think? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Freight container is exactly right! (Score:1, Funny)
Hmm, now, if only you had a big lump of radioactive metal to stick in the shipping container with your mobile phone and garage nuke...
Re:Garage Nukes (Score:5, Funny)
I think I have seen these blueprints before (Score:3, Funny)
Pakistani.Nuke.Blueprints.2004.REPACK.READNFO.KHaNDOX.torrent
Re:Garage Nukes (Score:5, Funny)
You can bring as much as you like, as long as it's in the original container.
Re:FPers for code cracking? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hollywood Encryption? (Score:3, Funny)
And of course being able to blow up a 240x320 jpeg image of a football stadium to be able to read not only the license plate number but also the serial number of the annual registration tag of the cool red Porsche that just happens to have the rear end pointed toward the camera. Now that is some really useful "image enhancement"!
How about the ability to hack into and read the contents of any hard drive on any computer in the world, even if it isn't even connected to a network. Really tough computers (like the Pentagon or NASA stuff) might take a couple of minutes to get into, but it isn't all that hard. Right?
Even more impressive, how about trying to crack a one-time-pad encryption that was generated from cosmic radiation in about 3 seconds. Yeah, Hollywood OS is something I'd love have too! I could go on about this stuff as well.
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Re:You Been Played by The CIA (Score:3, Funny)
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