Daily Archives: August 18, 2010

Probability microcips

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The electrical signals inside Lyric’s chips represent probabilities, instead of 1s and 0s. While the transistors of conventional chips are arranged into components called digital NAND gates, which can be used to implement all possible digital logic functions, those in a probability processor make building blocks known as Bayesian NAND gates. Bayesian probability is a field of mathematics named after the eighteenth century English statistician Thomas Bayes, who developed the early ideas on which it is based.

Whereas a conventional NAND gate outputs a “1” if neither of its inputs match, the output of a Bayesian NAND gate represents the odds that the two input probabilities match. This makes it possible to perform calculations that use probabilities as their input and output.

via Technology Review: A New Kind of Microchip.

iPhone SPY Data Recovery Stick

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The iPhone Spy Data Recovery Stick is the ultimate recovery tool for anyone who wants to capture deleted information from any iPhone (running iOS to 3.x). The iPhone Spy Data Recovery Stick makes it easy to recover deleted text messages, contacts, call and web history, as well as photos, voice memos and calendar appointments — giving you a unique look into exactly what the user has been searching for, who they’ve been talking to, and even the types of pictures they’ve taken. With features like saved map search history, web searches, and text messages, the iPhone Data Recovery Stick is the only tool you need to catch a cheating spouse, monitor your kids, or backup your own iPhone data.

via iPhone SPY Data Recovery Stick | Read ALL Her Deleted Texts & MORE…?.

  • Download information like:
    • Text messages
    • Phonebook contacts
    • Call history
    • Calendar appointments and reminders
    • Notes / voice memos
    • Graphics / photos
    • Multimedia files
    • Internet search and web history
    • Map history
    • Dynamic text (learned words like people’s names, restaurants, etc.)
    • Phone properties such as model, serial number, OS version, and more
    • And all other user data that can normally be backed up
  • Deleted data types that can be recovered:
    • Text messages
    • Phonebook contacts
    • Call history
    • Calendar entries and reminders
  • Speed of scan: approx 20 minutes per Gb of storage space
  • Supported operating systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
  • The iPhone Spy Stick software recovers deleted data only from iPhones running iOS 3.2.1 and earlier

And only $199,-

Haystack: masks Iranian activist traffic as being innocuous

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Haystack. The anti-censorship software is built on a sophisticated mathematical formula that conceals someone’s real online destinations inside a stream of innocuous traffic. You may be browsing an opposition Web site, but to the censors it will appear you are visiting, say, weather.com. Heap tends to hide users in content that is popular in Tehran, sometimes the regime’s own government mouthpieces. Haystack is a step forward for activists working in repressive environments. Other anti-censorship programs—such as Tor, Psiphon, or Freegate—can successfully hide someone’s identity, but censors are able to detect that these programs are being run and then work to disable the communication. With Haystack, the censors aren’t even aware the software is in use. “Haystack captures all outgoing connections, encrypts them, and then masquerades the data as something else,” explains Heap. “If you want to block Haystack, you are gonna block yourself.”

via Computer Programmer Takes On the World’s Despots – Newsweek.