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Military Matters Series Finale
Thu Sep 28 2023
Them, I say, thank you. Brian, our final editor gets to put the show to bed. I'm sure he's glad to not have to edit this last episode too much. No customers this time, Brian. Well, maybe we'll see. As we wrap this one up, I wanna thank you, the listener. In a sea of podcasts, you chose us. And for that, I'm eternally grateful. I hope we informed you entertained you, and maybe someday we'll link up again. But till then, all I ask of you is this. Keep all of them accountable. Them being those in authority, those in power, those wearing uniforms, those wearing stars. Those were in business suits, those sitting behind big desks, those sitting behind secret desks, those who've trusted Well, those who we've trusted with our well-being, keep them all accountable. Journalismalism, whether it's in print, video, or voice keeps the spotlight on. And without it, we're lost. Without that spotlight, well, people are gonna do things that they think they can get away with. So ask the hard questions Don't let folks give you empty political answers that nonsense where they answer you without never really answering you. Demand more. Expect more. Hold those people to a higher standard. Demand more from those people and support the journalists who are at the front trying to get the story. Thank you all for listening. Thank you for a 150 plus
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Quantum Leaps and Bounds
Tue Sep 19 2023
For the questions about encryption specifically, I'm gonna try to direct you to people who are smarter than myself about these issues. I know NIST has published things about this. NSA has published things about this. Very briefly, it it is true that for certain types of our encryption, for, like, RSA encryption, we've built that encryption around the assumption that a certain kind of math problem, which is factoring large numbers, is really, really hard ordering on impossible. And that's one of the things that has been looked at, like, people have looked the most at for quantum computers, and we think that if you had a big enough quantum computer that was high enough quality, you'd be able to factor certain problems. And, you know, NIST and NSA publications have told us that, that would be a problem we should protect against. What we do at DARPA actually is because we we like to look at the problems that nobody else has looked at, We we tend not to look at that factoring problem because that's what the most work has been done on, and there are agencies who do a smarter job than that. We we tend to think about well, it's been suggested that there's a dozen other fields from chemistry to material science to machine learning to you name it, who's somebody who's saying a quantum computer is gonna revolutionize. It's gonna be phenomenal. And we tend to take a skeptical but curious eye to these things, and we would like to find out if those claims are true or not. So we tend to think about the crazier applications of quantum computers than factoring. Tell me about that that crazier aspect of quantum computing. Take me down that rabbit hole. What are you guys looking at applying quantum mechanics or quantum computing to that kinda goes past the pop science multiverse, you know, encryption stuff. What are we not looking at? Yeah. So, so I work at DARPA, right, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Our goal is to prevent strategic surprise. And so when I think about this
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Fast Take — Legacy of Vanessa Guillen
Tue Sep 12 2023
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The murder of Vanessa Guillén, revisited
Tue Sep 05 2023
25 to 50 people in this, in this meeting. You know, they started going through the timetable of when Vanessa was last seen and, you know, just information that we were asking about, but they didn't give us any time. So, for example, they gave us a timeline, and it was, you know, they checked her in her barracks. And then there's a 4 check ins, I understand, in a day. There's a 5 AM. There's a 9 AM. There's a 3 PM, and there's a 4 PM. Well, I didn't see anything with a 9 AM. I didn't see anything with a 3 or 4 o'clock, PM, and, on that timeline, and they were saying, oh, well, you know, we don't always check people in. It's like, what are you talking about? This is a good. Check ins are check ins. You didn't mean I I actually was shocked that they tried to play it like that. And I go, really sweet? That's how you run your command? Nobody follows the rules. It's like an anarchy. You could do whatever you want here. And then he goes, well, actually, she was checked in, but, it was a it was a false accounting of her. I was like, what? Now we have a frivolous accounting of of a human being? Like, I started realizing there was more to this place than than I was looking at. We should note that there are no transcripts of this meeting to our knowledge. What was said in that meeting is not publicly available information. What Natalie Quam is describing though are daily check ins. Since COVID began, formations have been discouraged. So soldiers sometimes are required to check-in with their leadership through alternate means such as text messages and phone calls. What Quam has described is a false report of accountability. The question is how that happened? Did her squad leader mistakenly account for everyone? Did someone report for her? We don't know. They didn't have any times, on that timeline. So they would do the check-in, but they did they did not show the time that check-in. It would show us, or they would write, you know, she went and filled her gas up in that car at this gas station on the base, but they wouldn't tell us what time she did that. So I asked them, what what why won't she tell us what time she filled her gas up? Like, that's just a
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