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John,

I've started to take a look at the draft and it has wonderful content. I wrote a 400 page book once, so I know how hard these are to create (and then edit).

[John]

> Typo section 2.1: Current: "Mao's Great Leap Forward was supposed
> to prove that Marxism, Communism and Socialism are better than
> anything else, but instead it was a total disaster, causing the
> deaths of tens of millions [of starvation] through starvation and
> execution."

> Correction: Mao's Great Leap Forward was supposed to prove that
> Marxism, Communism and Socialism are better than anything else,
> but instead it was a total disaster, causing the deaths of tens of
> millions through starvation and execution.

> Current: "After Mao's disaster [total] totally discredited
> Marxism, Socialism and Communism, once Mao died in 1976, Deng
> Xiaoping was able to institute an "Opening up and reform" policy
> that completely reversed Socialism and opened up China to free
> markets and capitalism. "

> Correction: After Mao's disaster totally discredited Marxism,
> Socialism and Communism, once Mao died in 1976, Deng Xiaoping was
> able to institute an "Opening up and reform" policy that
> completely reversed Socialism and opened up China to free markets
> and capitalism.

Thanks for the corrections

[John]

> John,

> I've started to take a look at the draft and it has wonderful
> content. I wrote a 400 page book once, so I know how hard these
> are to create (and then edit).

And it's such a relief when it's over.

[Phong Tran]

Section 2.5. China's contempt for international law, paragraph 4.

Current: In past decades, especially since "Nixon went to China" in 1972 and met Mao Zedong, almost everyone in the world was excitied about China...

Correction: excited ?

Section 5.5. United Front Work Department (UFWD) in Australia, paragraph 2.

Current: ... ... The international outrage would be enormous, and none of the American student expats would do as they has they had been told anyway.

Correction: remove 'they has'

[FishbellykanakaDude]

Ya' know,.. seeing "Book Series" made me "a bit excited", in the "Oooo, a series of cool stuff!" kinda way.

Perhaps some "smallish" books about tightly focused aspects of GD Theory, and their implications, and how they "mesh together" would make for a really interesting "pointed" series?

I have no doubt that you could do whole books, or series of booklets, based on single chapters of any of your present (or prospective) books.

Breaking the theory book into a sort of progressive/building syllabus of texts, with each going into details and implications and observations and weird'n'freaky anecdotes and stories, might well be rather addictive,.. in that "gotta read the next part" way.

Just a thought!

Most aloha to ya'. <shaka nui dude!>


Ooooo,.. maybe a comic book series!

[John]

Section 2.5. China's contempt for international law, paragraph 4.

Current: In past decades, especially since "Nixon went to China" in 1972 and met Mao Zedong, almost everyone in the world was excitied about China...

Correction: excited ?

Section 5.5. United Front Work Department (UFWD) in Australia, paragraph 2.

Current: ... ... The international outrage would be enormous, and none of the American student expats would do as they has they had been told anyway.

Correction: remove 'they has'

Thanks for the corrections.

[John]

> I picked the blue for your name from the bluishness in the
> soldier's uniforms. ..the idea is to "link" the photo to your
> name. It sorta frames the title, and balances the page. It's also
> "cooling", and (I think) gives your name more "gravitas".

> You might wanna darken the blue just a tad.

I changed the name color to blue:



Is that what you mean? It doesn't look right to me.

[John]

** 06-Apr-2019 Hardware Trojans

> Interesting paper:

> Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans: Extended Version

> https://www.emsec.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/me ... tended.pdf

Let me add to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's effusive praise of you.

That paper is quite a find. You must be really into this stuff.

However, I think some additional discussion is warranted. The paper
discusses implementing a Trojan (what I would call a "backdoor") by
means of a new technique that can't be detected using the optical
methods that have been used in the past to detect Trojans.

However, I get the impression that just around the corner is a new
method for detecting Trojans that will defeat this new technique.
Once such a Trojan is found, then there is irrefutable proof of the
existence of a backdoor with certainty.

The beauty of the software-only method that I described for
undetectable backdoors is that it can never be detected, even by more
powerful microscopes, or whatever, because the chip itself is
unchanged. There's nothing there to discover. The best that one can
do is reverse engineer the code, and what I'm saying is that a person
with the right skills can use cryptographic techniques to easily write
the code for a backdoor that cannot be detected until it's activated.
If the code is reverse engineered, it may be suspected that the
code is suspicious, but that's as far as it goes. Unlike the hardware
method, a software backdoor can never be proven with certainty.

At any rate, let's face it -- the Chinese military will have
thoroughly studied all the techniques, both software and hardware, and
will use any combination of them that will work.

And one day, at a time of the choosing of China's military,
much of the internet and many local networks will all shut
down, if they've been implemented using Huawei routers.

[John]

> Breaking the theory book into a sort of progressive/building
> syllabus of texts, with each going into details and implications
> and observations and weird'n'freaky anecdotes and stories, might
> well be rather addictive,.. in that "gotta read the next part"
> way.

I don't think so. I've tried many things in the last 15 years, and
they've all turned out to be dead ends. This would too. It's time to
be realistic.

[guest]

Do you think the Chinese are behind all the recent software failures in the airline industry?