Mitt Romney wanted to change America and he has succeeded. . . with his new iPhone app slogan “A Better Amercia.” -

Mitt Romney wanted to change America and he has succeeded. . . with his new iPhone app slogan “A Better Amercia.” - 




Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wanted to change America and he has succeeded. . . with his new iPhone app displaying the slogan “A Better Amercia.”


Yes, “Amercia.”


The newly released “With Mitt” app allows users to add their choice of 14 pro-Romney phrases to photographs and share them via social media. Examples include “I’m a Mom for Mitt,” “American Greatness,” “Day One Job One” and “Obama Isn’t Working.”


And of course the misspelled: “A better Amercia.”


That typo sent the Internet into spasms of joy on Tuesday night, spawning Twitter hashtag 



#Amercia and a tumblr titled “Amercia is with Mitt.”


The Romney campaign has not commented publicly about the typo. CNN reports that an update to the app was submitted to Apple Wednesday morning and is waiting for approval. Meanwhile the app in its original form is still available in the iTunes store.


The typo isn’t the only part of the app that Internet jokesters have shown affection for. As Vanity Fair points out, the slogans also work well with a photo of a bottle of white wine.


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http://www.thestar.com/news/world/uselection/article/1202852--mitt-romney-iphone-app-stands-for-a-better-amercia-spawns-internet-meme?bn=1

Cyber-attack concerns raised over Boeing 787 chip's 'back door' - has built-in function that could let in hackers -

Cyber-attack concerns raised over Boeing 787 chip's 'back door' - has built-in function that could let in hackers - 




Two Cambridge experts have discovered a "back door" in a computer chip used in military systems and aircraft such as the Boeing 787 that could allow the chip to be taken over via the internet.


The discovery will heighten concerns about the risks of cyber-attacks on sensitive installations, coming on the heels of the discovery this week of the 'Flamer' virus which has been attacking computer systems in Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia.


In a paper that has been published in draft form online and seen by the Guardian, researchers Sergei Skorobogatov of Cambridge University and Chris Woods of Quo Vadis Labs say that they have discovered a method that a hacker can use to connect to the internals of a chip made by Actel, a US manufacturer.


"An attacker can disable all the security on the chip, reprogram cryptographic and access keys … or permanently damage the device," they noted.


Woods told the Guardian that they have offered all the necessary information about how the hack can be done to government agencies – but that their response is classified.


"The real issue is the level of security that can be compromised through any back door, and how easy they are to find and exploit," Woods said.


The back door may have been inserted by Actel itself, whose ProASIC3 chip is used in medical, automotive, communications and consumer products, as well as military use.


Woods said that "a back door is an additional undocumented featured deliberately inserted into a device for extra functionality" – in effect, a secret way to get into the chip and control it.


Crucially, in this case it exists as part of the design of the silicon chip – meaning that it cannot be removed because it is inherent in how the chip reacts to certain inputs. He suggested that it may have been put there by design by Actel, because there are some traces of the existence of such a back door in the system files of Actel development software.


But, he said, that creates serious risks: "The great danger comes from the fact that such a back door undermines the high level of security in the chip making it exposed to various attacks. Although Actel makes a big claim that their devices are extremely secure because there is no physical path for the configuration data to be read to the outside world, a back door was added with a special key to circumnavigate all the security set by themselves or one of their users."


Connecting to the chips would be comparatively easy over the internet if the chip is wired to an internet-enabled controller, he said. Normally a special cryptographic key would be needed, but the back door does not need an encrypted channel.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/29/cyber-attack-concerns-boeing-chip

You know its bad when... - The Rockefellers and The Rothschilds announce they are uniting under a common group -

You know its bad when... - The Rockefellers and The Rothschilds announce they are uniting under a common group - 

You know its bad when... two of the largest and best-known 'familia' in Europe and the US come together. As the FT reports, The Rockefellers and The Rothschilds are uniting under a common group as Rothschild Investment Trust and Rockefeller Financial Services become one. The patriarchs (David Rockefeller 96, and Lord Rothschild 76) have been 'connected' for five decades. Between the Rothschild's 'sprawling' multi-century banking empire across Europe and the Rockefeller's roots in 1882 Oil-money, we can only imagine the Illuminati, Freemasons, Templars, and Central Bankers of the world are quaking in their boots at this new global force for change - The Rothsellers or is it The Rockchilds. What next? It seems only Soros is left to complete the holy trinity...


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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/end-nigh-rockefellers-and-rothschilds-merge

Back-to-back asteroids harmlessly fly past Earth - was the sixth closest asteroid approach -

Back-to-back asteroids harmlessly fly past Earth - was the sixth closest asteroid approach - 






A newly discovered small asteroid has harmlessly zipped close to Earth - just as scientists expected.


The 16-foot-long space rock, discovered on Memorial Day, passed by early Tuesday at a distance of 8,950 miles from the Earth's surface.


NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which tracks such flybys, said the asteroid - dubbed 2012 KT42 - was the sixth closest asteroid approach.


It was the second asteroid encounter this week. On Monday, another asteroid, measuring 69 feet across, flew by at a distance of 32,000 miles.


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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_ASTEROID_FLYBYS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-29-19-21-18