RE: Blitzkrieg Server -- For Real?!

[Vin McLellan <vin () shore net>]

        Gawd, can't remember when I've enjoyed a product announcement as
much as this BS. Or had as much ROTFL (Rolling on the Floor Laughing)
stimulation as I've gotten from Signal Magazine's crusader's march into the
shadow-lands of info-war.

        Just when many of us are starting to take the risk of info-war
seriously, here we have a healthy reminder of just what sort of zeitgeist
Signal's readers (the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics
Association) relate to. Talk about a demanding Signal/noise ratio!!

        While my stomach ache subsides, I'd like to emphatically echo Dave
Kennedy's referral of the Wizards to a George Smith editorial about the
Blitzkrieg Server in the Crypt Newsletter
<http://www.soci.niu.edu/~crypt/other/blitz.htm>  If you've never taken a
trip on Smith's trolley past the outer limits, I also urge you to take the
time to read the his on-line book excerpt ("The Virus Creation Labs.")
Amazing stuff! ROTFL, with tears!

        Let me tease you with a couple of Smith quotes on the topic at hand:

> Apparently, the "Blitzkrieg server" is powered by "self-programmed adaptive
> automatacapsids--variable length string transformation rules."
>
> "When examined on an individual basis, no automatacapsid in and of itself
> has any
> meaning," said Wood for Signal. "The automatacapsid only has value in the
> context
> of the distributed Blitzkrieg server network collective . . . the adaptive
> automatacapsids, like fragments of a living virus without a host cell,
> transform one
> another and data, and they spontaneously generate or regenerate new
> automatacapsids to meet every conceivable complex data analysis need."

     <Snip>
> Wood goes on to say to Signal that his "automatacapsids" make the "Blitzkrieg
> server" invincible. And they are dependent on another Wood discovery -- the
> "unified general equation of motion -- or UGEM."
>
> Readers are informed the Wood Unified General Equation of Motion has something
> to do with the control of complexity and all organization in nature. So
> Blitzkrieg,
> the scientist claimed in Signal, is "the first true virus-like collective
> digital life
> form."

        <snip>

> [...] For those readers with an excessively dry sense of humor Crypt
> Newsletter suggests much of this particular story seems accidentally
> cloned from "Killswitch," an episode of The X-Files that aired earlier
> this television season. In "Killswitch," a group of computer scientists,
> one from Santa Fe, created the first digital life form -- a series of
> "concatenated automata viruses." Scully and Mulder, along with the
> bumbling editors of Lone Gunman magazine, tracked the intelligent
> software to a crumbling trailer filled with computer hardware parked
> in the woods near Fairfax, Virginia. The original Business Newswire
> from May 6 was datelined -- Fairfax.

        Now, isn't that is the kind of probing reportage a Santa Fe-based
infosec vendor that styles itself -- honest! -- the "Network Waffen Und
Munistionsfabriken [sic] Group" deserves?

        Suerte,
                _Vin

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