Thread by @Dry_Observer

@ericgarland Speaking of which, some people may be interested in the following, partially redacted system I sent to the @FBI on 1/1/20 for tracking all weapons of mass destruction, drugs, etc... globally.
cc: @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @RepAdamSchiff recently expressed some well-founded concerns re: the abuse facial recognition, but some more positive applications are also worth considering.

Since no one at the @FBI or elsewhere has suggested keeping this quiet, it's worth sharing now.

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff Before we begin, let's keep one set of criteria in mind when considering any proposed technology.

Does it work?

How well?

Is it practical to employ?

Does it have significant drawbacks?

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Data Mining the Open Air
"Part 1 of 9 - Introduction, Tracking Pasdaran, Russian and other Resources, and Basic Methodology"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "On 10/23/19, I sent the FBI some suggestions on how molested children in seized, illegal Darknet videos could be identified by an automated process combining more conventional generative adversarial networks (GANs) with some additional, potentially dramatic improvements..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...on 10/29/19 I elaborated further especially regarding the radical enhancement of facial-recognition technology, particularly for counterintelligence..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...and on 11/3/19 I explained how intelligence assets, operatives and moles thus acquired could be viewed on high-resolution video even if only caught on inferior recordings and how some videos could be matched with enhanced audio or, failing that, automated lip reading."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "I am writing now about how generative adversarial networks, advanced optical bio-sensors and other detection methods, and the ability to mass produce and miniaturize those sensors can be merged together in detection methods..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...to track all weapons of mass destruction, drugs, natural pathogens as well as some other data points such as gunshots, malware and cyber-intrusions..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...and how crowdsourcing part of this data collection in a controlled, verifiable way would permit this data to be collected as court-admissible evidence."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Related applications will make it far easier to recover kidnapped or trafficked children, to track wanted criminals, spies and terrorists..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...and to prevent other classes of crimes such as the illegal trade in gemstones, counterfeiting, identity theft via compromised ATMs/card readers and some fraudulent transactions."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Tracking WMDs, drugs and other phenomena such as exotic weapons, gunshots, and cyber-intrusions and malware can be managed via a combination of GANs, continuous (and especially court-admissible) detection of minute traces..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...and the merging of this data in a continuous exposure over time, further leavened with an overlay of other relevant information (ship, air, truck and train routes, communications, financial exchanges, known operations, felons monitored under warrant, etc)..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...and the ability to detect movement and locations over time. The key elements required are the GANs to assimilate, merge and analyze the data, distributing cheap, advanced detectors, leveraging existing sensors already widely in use, the overlay of relevant data..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...and acquiring as much as possible in a court-admissible way so we can not only thwart particular instances or trace them back to their source but track entire networks and shut them down."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Because the FBI has offered a reward for information regarding the Pasdaran’s methods for moving and laundering funds I will also point out how shutting down certain illegal methods of doing so will help in tracking and thwarting such activities..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...as well as those undertaken by other terrorist groups, criminal syndicates and hostile foreign-intelligence agencies."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "This particular set of messages will incidentally cover the above-mentioned opportunities to track drugs, counterfeiting, gemstones, criminal, terrorist and espionage networks among other instruments of the Pasdaran and similar groups..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...and will also offer opportunities for tracking smuggled oil.

Not all of the publicly known avenues of Iranian money laundering will be fully covered in the following."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "These would include Halkbank, Reza Zarrab, money laundering through Turkey or Azerbaijan, evasion of oil sanctions via oil smuggling, more laundering through gold, Hawala transfers such as Altaf Khanani’s, any cryptocurrency and of course ostensibly charitable organizations."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Presumably front businesses now trading under relaxed sanctions are also an issue.

Yes, the opium trade and any other drugs are a given, but that is already baked into what we are addressing here."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "While counterfeiting has been less prominent lately, I am assuming that is still in the mix either for the Pasdaran or for terrorist organizations directly supported them."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "If Trump Tower Baku plays into their operations, we should consider money laundering through real estate as well. And if the Kremlin can use pensions to launder cash, it is a given others can also."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Assuredly any financing of Hizballah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, and the Taliban would also be relevant."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "It's not exactly public, but any crossover in the files seized from Osama bin Laden, especially given the common interest in the Taliban, will likely prove useful as well, in particular the donor list and everything that flows from it."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Whatever offshore entities and bank accounts Zarrab used are undoubtedly well accounted for if he is cooperating."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Finally, illicit cyber operations will have to be sifted as well, though they may yield more information on China and especially Russia, particularly given the tools I can offer on that front."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Diamonds will have to be addressed as well, but shutting down counterfeiting and the illegal diamond and gemstone trade - blood diamonds, money laundering, theft – are discussed below along with credit-card theft and identity fraud via card readers."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Further, if any of the laundering or other major crimes discussed below falls under RICO, then apparently the statute of limitations does not start until the last act taken in furtherance of the conspiracy."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Given what falls under RICO statutes, such as “extortion, interstate theft, narcotics violations, mail fraud, securities fraud, currency reporting violations, certain immigration offenses, and terrorism related offenses” (per the Criminal RICO manual for federal prosecutors)..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...we have to assume this covers anyone trafficking drugs, supporting terrorism or engaged in "currency reporting violations" potentially including those associated with dodging sanctions."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "First, the basic method for gathering this data I originally shared with the company Maritime Watch approximately 15 years ago."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "I do not know that I ever formally transferred ownership of the invention, it was never patented (and probably was not even provisionally patented) and in any event the company has been defunct for roughly a decade-plus."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Briefly, you can distribute sensors for security, environmental/water/food testing, medical diagnostics, cargo screening and so forth, starting with larger systems but eventually expanding to smartphones and other mobile devices."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "While you will create systems very effective at their dedicated tasks, you will also provide users with a free, opt-in option to send data streams back for real-time analysis."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "In exchange, users get an insight into any notable or unusual threats and a glimpse of any declassified graphic summary of environmental risks, outbreak tracking, and so forth."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Simply employing a vast number of collecting sensors which can be legally used to detect threats in America and her allies is useful in itself."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "But generative adversarial networks (GANs) can analyze this deluge of data in very useful ways, as demonstrated by seemingly unrelated work already done in the field."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "The remainder of this message is dedicated to the sensors which we can use, sometimes augmented with compressed sensing, and how GANs can make use of that data in order to detect, geolocate and track potential threats in an efficient way."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Some ways of avoiding “spoofing” and disaggregating data sources which different parts of the government can legally access – law enforcement versus defense and intelligence – will also be covered, though I will likely expand on this overall design in the future."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Key to this mass distribution of cheap, high-powered sensors is employing ones which already exist as integral elements of our digital infrastructure or which are well-suited to creation or deposition via photolithography..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...thereby deploying miniaturized sensors directly onto microchips. Not all useful sensors will be this small, but enough are to serve admirably in mobile devices."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "The first step is to create set of security, medical and environmental safety apps for both larger equipment – such as embedded scanners in ionizers, air purifiers and ordinary air conditioners – but also smartphones..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...as well as the sensors with which we will augment these devices, even if they are not specifically designed to incorporate them."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Sensors include the existing cameras and microphones in standard smartphones, whispering-gallery mode sensors, solid state radiation detection via a square centimeter of silicon, laser spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, cloud chambers..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...optical scanning of morphological features in pathogens, light and infrared scattering, refraction and absorption, and so forth. Some separate sensors will be aimed primarily at vehicles, particularly cargo and undersea vessels."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Others will simply incorporate existing real-time notifications of online intrusions and malware, but merged into other databases and assessed in novel ways."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "These datapoints are effectively time stamped and geolocated with the specific chemical signature, radiation levels, DNA tags, etc. Simply being able to triangulate on a nearby, obvious, anomalous source of radiation and thereby track it has benefits in itself..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...but we are aiming for something far more thorough, which is easily augmented as more advanced technologies emerge."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Incorporating sensors into existing devices would normally take considerable time, even if industries adopted them rapidly, as modifying every piece of equipment by hand would be a massive task, many – such as iPhones – are not designed to be opened and altered anyway..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...and new models would mostly be taken up as older products aged out and were naturally replaced."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "A simple solution would be to incorporate sensors into an easily attached accessory commonly used already which could be plugged into the largest category of equipment, the smartphone."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "A protective case could incorporate all of the miniaturized, smartphone-scale detectors and plug directly into any outlet already capable of serving as both a datalink and charger –"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...an option unfortunately already demonstrated by public chargers modified to inflict malware on or steal data from smartphones plugged into them."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "These protective sleeves with embedded sensors would have to have their own plug sized to their prospective smartphone, or have a few interchangeable plugs, while also allowing the case to be plugged into a power source in turn."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "This would give the sensors access to the smartphone’s processors and transmitter without appreciably interrupting its ability to recharge or exchange data through that port."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Part 2 of 9 - Radiation and Sonics
"Let us begin, however, with one significant if specialized sensor which can be used with any existing, unmodified smartphone."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "This technique is specialized, as it would only be of use in tracking nuclear or radiological weapons outputting a sufficient number of high-energy particles."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "But because this method is something that can be used with the smartphones in circulation now and an excellent example of the core concept, we will start with the experiment it springs from."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "This is the heart of the Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO), using the covered cameras of smartphones to detect high-energy particle impacts and their approximate direction as a crowdsourced global sensor array."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“The way the application works” from the Credo.Science site.
credo.science/credodetector/…
"“In very simplified terms:"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“The phone's job is to take pictures all the time (for the results to be correct the camera must be covered, and the whole phone should be away from heat or light). When the camera is covered, the most often the resulting image is black (no event) and is immediately rejected,"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff ""but if a particle with adequate (high) energy (such as cosmic rays) passes through the material covering the camera, it is seen by the camera as a bright point that is counted as detection."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“The detection results are sent to the server (api.credo.science) where the detection preview is available."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“Of course, you can also find on the server, exceptions that are artifacts - something that is not of great importance for science, but it is of great importance in improving the filters we work on.”“

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“We assume that everything flies practically at the speed of light, so we know the approximate speed of the particles."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“If the smartphone has a digital compass (not everyone has) then the direction is to be estimated. Data from a single detection contain a value from the compass and accelerometer at the time of recording the hit."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff ""But the accuracy of the digital compass leaves a lot to be desired, its accuracy is +/- 15 ° as long as it is not disturbed by anything that generates a magnetic field."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“In addition, when we examine the direction, we must also take into account the return."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff ""It is possible in the case of dots / dashes, compass, dash length and matrix thickness, we could estimate the direction, or in the lines maybe there would be a chance to say whether it flies from the bottom..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff ""or from the signal distribution along the track, eg assuming that earlier = stronger signal.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "The basic application for tracing any dangerous radiation sources emitting high-energy particles becomes obvious. We can collect these datapoints much as we would take an extended exposure of a darkened subject at night."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Not to reduce the image to blinding, undifferentiated whiteness, but to reveal features otherwise lost to us."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Combined with an approximate direction provided by most smartphones we could not only notice any such anomalous source, but quickly determine where the estimated paths of the particles converged on a rough origin point."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Further, we would not just be collecting this data three dimensionally, but over time, not only permitting “long exposures” but also giving us the means to see if a source were moving, and where."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "If we combine this with known transportation routes and vehicles with known locations, we could see if a radiation source were on a train, on a ship that we knew about, on a vessel we did not know about..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...or simply following a highway or back roads at a speed indicating a car or truck."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "While the above technique could be helpful, there are more powerful and sophisticated options for both those smartphones and for dedicated sensor arrays."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Solid-state radiation detection via one-square-centimeter silicon wafers can detect less-powerful gamma photons but when more-powerful gamma photons it is possible to detect the energy difference. In other words, other, more potent detectors could be used."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Extensive air shower (EAS) arrays can use water or ice as a medium within which they can detect Cherenkov radiation generated by high-energy collisions..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...(potentially useful in situations where we are leveraging surrounding seawater or Arctic ice as an element in a distributed detector), but plastic scintillators are evidently state of the art for that."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Cloud chambers could easily be reduced to a small scanner which could fit in your hand – too large for smartphones, but viable for larger equipment such as ventilation systems also sifting for contaminants, civic water filtration..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "... and other devices where environmental safety is a valuable consideration. Cloud chambers are another simple method of detecting the direction of ionizing radiation."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Further, the simple plan of tracking the aggregate number of sensory “pings” and possibly their direction is not the only one available."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "It has its strengths – much like a “heat map” of actual heat or other geolocated datapoints. Even a photographic plate draws us a picture by essentially the same means."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "But for radiation and other energy sources, we have better options.

"Consider the work which has already been done with light-ray tracing – classically handled by tracing the paths of millions of light rays - and convolutional neural networks, particular using sparsity."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "If these systems can be calculated in milliseconds through an analysis of only a tiny fraction of the data and the light rays in evidence, as described below."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Real-Time Global Illumination With Radiance Probes

"The paper featured is "Real-time Global Illumination by Precomputed Local Reconstruction
from Sparse Radiance Probes.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Light patterns and silhouettes can be traced back to converge to a single or primary radiant source as their shadows help indicate a direction, in a reversal of neural network ray tracing."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Further, even faint traces, on land, at sea or in the air, tell a great deal when superimposed over probable sources such as vehicles or buildings."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "We do not need an aesthetically pleasing image, merely a point or points of origin for high-intensity ionizing radiation which should not be present. GANs can be trained to differentiate similar sources, especially through selective sampling of the sensors."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "By taking a very large set of sensors and randomly using collected data from different sub-sets and by shrinking and expanding the field sampled, a single incident can train multiple networks or the same network multiple times."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "More limited samplings can also be combined with compressed sensing, which relies on the sparsity of data inputs in its calculations. Breaking up the initial GANs or CNNs to analyze their particular class of threats is a natural approach."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "One, the data can go into as many convolutional neural networks as necessary. Two, you actually want to cover the other basic functions of the sensor array – environmental contaminants, disease outbreaks and vectors, etc."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Thus disaggregated, budgets and responsibilities for key areas can be shared.

"Particle scattering, absorption and refraction can be used over time to detect heavily shielded objects and areas potentially designed to block other forms of passive sensing or even active scans."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Tomography using variations of seismic refraction and reflection seismology to detect suspiciously high densities in cargo vessels and other vehicles, such as lead shielding."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Training sets can include scanning our own vessels, including the nuclear-armed and powered ones, in port and at sea, using their own and tidal vibrations to analyze their normal structure and density with or without various cargos."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Laser microphones can target pre-established points on the vessel to create this vibrational passive scan of the vehicle. SONAR can also be used for analysis, particularly when merging that data with the laser-microphone sonic profile."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "China is reputedly using convolutional neural networks to enhance their capacity to track naval vessels."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "There is a logic to enhancing our ability to track submarines, including listening for the sound of submarine propellers, the displacement and waves of undersea vessels, etc."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Offshore intrusions presumably have fewer protections against search and seizure, so we would be relying less on crowdsourced sensors there – where the US population is unavailable, but where the government can focus more resources directly on the problem."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "A simple version of this would be acoustic and pressure sensors dropped along coastlines, detecting vibration from engines and displacement from ship and submarine wakes, communicating back using fiber optic lines invisible in the sand..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...(or via quantum entanglement, in the near future) and powered by renewable energy or current transmitted alongside their communication lines."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "GANs run to detect known and unknown transiting ships and patrolling submarines could enhance their capacity to identify these vehicles with minimal data."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Immediate coastal waters, being shallower, may be an easier place to trace ripples and vibrations than in surface waves or the vast depths of the ocean beyond our continental shelf."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Part 3 of 9 - De-Noising Sonics and Radiant Energy"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "We could “de-noise” the noise collected by undersea sensors while merging and radically enhancing it, in much the same way I suggested merging, de-noising and enhancing multiple audio sources being tracked by FBI counterintelligence."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "To repeat that information, as both next-generation super resolution of images and dramatically enhanced audio each support aspects of this work, here is an excerpt from a message I sent the FBI on 11/3/19:"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“On 10/23/19, I sent the FBI some suggestions on how molested children in seized, illegal Darknet videos could be identified by an automated process combining more conventional generative adversarial networks with some additional, potentially dramatic improvements..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff ""...and on 10/29/19 I expanded on those improvements, and noted some additional applications for the radical enhancement of facial-recognition technology and how to implement them.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff <Redacted>

"“To quote from that 10/29/19 message, where I am in turn quoting from my 10/23/19 transmission:"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“““…the possible means to identify virtually all of the victims and perhaps even the perpetrators whose faces can be glimpsed in any of these materials, regardless of what age they are now, how bad the images are, features caught at odd angles and in fragmentary fashion..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "and so forth.

"“““Generative adversarial networks are a method of machine learning commonly applied to problems such as enhancing images and detecting deep fakes. Two neural networks challenge each other in a game, each trying to “outwit” the other."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "They are given a training set as an example, and subsequently learn to generate new data sets meeting the same statistical parameters as the training set.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff <Redacted>
"“““We can also undoubtedly stitch together accurate images of some faces based on different glimpses from different angles, given sufficient data."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Ironically, some deep fake work may help here, because of the efforts to fill in unseen parts of a face when a deep fake moves to reveal parts of a person never seen in the hijacked original clip.”"
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@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "““How can we expedite the training of GANs to do this?

"““Obviously, we could start with a database featuring a combination of video clips and photos of the same subjects."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff Just taking high-resolution video, selecting one frame out as an end goal, and then having the GAN practice with a lower-resolution and/or corrupted version of that video would suffice for the earliest stage of training."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Ideally, we would eventually be able to make substantial gains with even markedly substandard clips, potentially even surpassing the clarity of the original high-resolution frame."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "““We could eventually progress to combining multiple astronomical or surveillance photos to hone the basic technique further, though photos and video featuring identifiable faces would feature in our best training sets."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "““To provide a large number of potentially public domain clips for this work, video clips of public figures such as politicians or celebrities could be used not only to practice enhanced resolution, but to practice recognizing them in unrelated photos..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...potentially taken at different times, wearing different hairstyles, makeup, costumes and having their identities otherwise obscured. In later stages, pulling celebrities out of random crowds in Hollywood, LA, Nashville and New York could also refine this system."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "““A more advanced training set would be to take a database of photos of people with top-secret clearance and other individuals of interest..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...and run facial recognition on everyone a known, monitored operative makes contact with, using the same techniques to enhance image quality and to analyze databases."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "““Other training sets would include spotting and identifying a known figure out of crowds from different angles using different photos or videos clips."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Merely having known analysts and other government employees included in the project walking outside of buildings visible from multiple vantage points by multiple security cameras and other surveillance systems both at predictable times..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...(the beginning and end of a workday, lunch hour) and unanticipated ones allows you to train a system to track individuals of interest through security systems in sensitive areas."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "A critical benchmark would be the ability to acquire and track figures who are not the focus of a normal surveillance camera at a considerable distance, despite crowds, poor visibility and other issues. Once this is achieved, many possibilities open up for you."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "““Eventually, you could use this method as an additional means of continuously tracking hostile operatives, dangerous criminals and known terrorists – not only in real time, but tracing their paths and encounters everywhere and at any time in which you have such footage –"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...say, from DC government security cameras – eventually creating an extensive map of their activities which can be added to whatever other intelligence and evidence you may have on them."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "There would inevitably be legal limits to this, particularly with US citizens not under warrant, but those would be for the relevant law enforcement and counterintelligence agencies to consider."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "““Such a map could be merged with other temporal and/or geolocated data – bank transfers, texts, calls, cryptocurrency exchanges, other persons of interest in the vicinity – to further enrich this map. I can elaborate on this option at greater length in the future.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff <Redacted>
"“We can, however, further enhance our output by collecting video transmission from multiple sources and knitting them together, whenever we know there is a person of interest to be tracked."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“Multiple security cameras, cell-phone videos and even photos can be merged to this end. Bear in mind that many of the recordings are both timestamped and geolocated. Indeed, the area covered by many security cameras never really changes."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Which means that training GANs to merge and enhance images further based on multiple perspectives is a real option, as is using high-resolution photographs as a touchstone."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“Using multiple video sources can also enhance video quality, like binocular summation in humans and many animals, but in this case adding to the aggregate sharpening of the end product."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“But they can also provide multiple angles on a scene, critical if you need clear views of each of the participants in a conversation. GANs could easily be trained to merge images and videos in this way, and..."
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@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“Further, audio taken deliberately or incidentally may also prove useful. Aside from any recordings intentionally made at the time, such as from hacked mobile devices, nearby phone calls create a microphone on the scene."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Multiple calls, if they can be legally accessed, could be filtered for relevant output, merged and de-noised."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“Here is a description of a neural network which learned to view faces and isolate only the speech of selected figures in a video."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "While this shows promise given our desire to hear what surveilled figures may be saying, remember that GANs could easily be trained to pick out keywords and listen to conversations coming from the people saying them..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...or to track the voices of individuals otherwise noted as important.

"“This AI Learned to Isolate Speech Signals"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“Remember also that given the circumstances, we may again have people being recorded, but also more than one suspect being tracked and recorded on their calls under warrant, voicemails recording relevant, time-stamped audio..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...and unrelated individuals willing to share video clips, calls or voicemails they might have picking up relevant background “noise.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "“The other detail to remember is that lip reading is entirely possible from video, and GANs can be trained to do this as well.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "To rephrase the above points for what we are discussing now, you can use multiple sensors and/or sensors..." <Redacted> "...to smooth out noise, limited resolution and other flaws for not only visible light, radiation and anything else on the electromagnetic spectrum..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...but for vibrations such as sound, training systems to isolate the sounds you need as the AI did in the sample above."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "This could potentially offer dramatic improvements in basic SONAR, our ability to listen for propeller and engine noise, to detect the waves created by the displacement of ships and submarines, and for sonic scanning such as seismic refraction and reflection seismology."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Even without this enhancement, merely covering an entire region in a continuous “scan” and then transmitting to authorized vehicles in real time (via laser pulses or, again, near-future quantum entanglement)..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...would give a submarine or surface vessel a clear view of vast swaths of the ocean."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Part 4 of 9 - Simplifying Techniques, Light-Based Applications and Automated Response

"Simulating shading and object properties related to illumination normally consume a great deal of processing power."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Topological data about light sources can be reused. You can add a diffusion profile of optical properties and then mix it with an object."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "This fact is highly relevant to us because we may be able to use existing topological data about light sources when relevant but also for other wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Hence, modeling how radiation acts when tracking its sources may become considerably easier. Modeling light could prove relevant for some the following uses as well, from registering diamonds to detecting counterfeit currency to identifying pathogens."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "To be fair, however, many of these applications, such as permanently “marking” diamonds so their identity can never be masked, even if cut and recut, or reduced to anything less than chips or dust, should not require so much effort to employ."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Real-Time Shading with Area Light Sources.

"Real-Time Polygonal-Light Shading with Linearly Transformed Cosines"
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@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "Gradiants and solving Poisson’s Equation let us assess illumination by focusing on changes in intensity instead of wasting effort un changing “flat” areas where the level of illumination is constant, thus enabling meaningful analysis with fewer computational resources."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "To summarize a few other primarily light-based applications also enabled by these techniques, let us step away from drugs and weapons of mass destruction to consider other black markets."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "One example of existing and potential sensors available for automatically detecting and reporting another class of crimes is the array of optical scanners used to accept cash and checks at ATMs and cash in self-checkout lines and vending machines."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "The software of cooperating entities can be upgraded at will by the simple expedient of not modifying the scanning software – or doing so very rarely –"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "...but feeding the raw data to a separate verification program which can ping the bank merchant system when violations or red flags surface."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "By using a separate, modular program, it can be modified or swapped out at will. It is also possible to keep key analysis for this and all of our crowdsourced sensors with the government, and thus far more secure and harder to assess."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff "A key software modification would be to check serial numbers of high-denomination bills known to have been destroyed by the US Treasury or in the validated possession of anyone with a chain of custody (probably only the US Treasury, for our purposes)."
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@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Another would be to cross-check checks or uncancelled credit cards against owners known to be deceased with no other legal users, such as surviving spouses."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Credit and debit cards used or checks dated after their passing are an obvious concern, but other red flags might include checks being deposited a suspiciously long time after death."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "A hardware change might include modifying the wavelengths and intensities used in the optical scan, and the sensitivity and basic resolution of the sensors."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Because we are dealing with translucent, elaborately dyed and/or printed paper with most modern currency, a powerful optical scan at a relatively high intensity might find discrepancies in the internal structure of the bill –"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...missing threads, etc, show inks reflecting or absorbing certain wavelengths when should not, and refraction, reflection or absorption of any part of the bill where it should not exist."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Again, CNNs or GANs can be trained by analyzing legitimate and deceptive images, so running optical scans on a large number of counterfeit bills versus real ones has its advantages."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "We can start with small datasets – the largest bills in common circulation, presumably 100s, expenditures by dead people – and expand from there – 20s, other suspicious checks and financial red flags. Banks can use this cooperation to enhance their fraud detection."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Also remember this technique can be used by more than the US and her close allies."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Especially given that GANs can be focused on specific test cases and steadily enhanced through continued training and improved sensory input..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...we can start by examining currency exchanged for our own in the US, EU, Japan, Australia, Canada, etc, but share versions of this system with friendly, cooperating governments."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Because we do not have to share the full range of sensory acuity or CNN/GAN analysis available to us, we can eventually share earlier iterations of the technology without compromising the latest versions."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "This will allow cooperators to sift for and track counterfeiting and other common fraud in their domestic economies."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Another technique to employ is the tracking of the global diamond trade and other gemstones, whether for blood diamonds, money laundering or jewel thieves."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "The key here is to take a high-resolution 3D scan of all jewels mined, cut, traded, insured or publicly held to produce a database featuring their internal flaws and minute imperfections."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "They can be subsequently cut apart, but each piece – beyond chips and dust – will retain their part of the fingerprint."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "GANs can be trained to detect these imperfections by analyzing different scans including the same gems, including those cut, uncut and the process of being cut and divided."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "GANs can also be trained to detect efforts to falsify scans, though the simple expedient of making multiple fast, accurate scans when verifying – by verified organizations and systems – would help greatly..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...especially if end users were uncertain of exactly how precise the government’s information is, particularly given the capacity to enhance those images radically."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Of course, laws may need to be changed and/or partnerships built to fully utilize these techniques. But simply changing government rules internally regarding how certain resources are handled –"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...such as the sale, registration, insurance, documentation and tracking of diamonds and other jewels – will go a great way towards introducing these methods, promoting them and encouraging their large-scale adoption, even before they are mandated by law."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Further, as most jewels are both transparent or translucent and meant for public display, effective 3D scanning could not only be added to smartphones via a distributed, free app, it could be designed to piggyback on existing camera functions..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...allowing gems to be scanned automatically when active. This would add to our distributed, crowdsourced, voluntary reporting of this issue."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "A similar app could be created for small merchants and hobbyists checking the authenticity of their cash or family heirlooms."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Other statistical analysis tools may help detect signs of money laundering, such as shares, real estate, goods or services being bought for an excessive price."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "GANs and other CNNs can be used to examine past incidents versus market norms and validated, accurate prices to sift for red flags or other extreme market anomalies. Explanations for non-verified spikes and troughs in prices do not have to be accepted at face value."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Evolutionary algorithms can be used to look for more effective ways to collect, sift and analyze this data.

"Another option is a “Sentinel” program to provide location and streaming video in the event of danger."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "This would include autorecognition of gunshots with directed assessment and geolocation combined with audio/video tracking of suspects caught in the act. Drone aerial surveillance could pursue from a safe distance in civilian contexts."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "More violent situations such as abductions or situations involving SWAT, the National Guard or the military could use small armed drones using, say, non-lethal ammunition to disrupt activities..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...or multiply the force which can be safely brought to bear, or to mobilize disaster management systems remotely.

"I covered this in another article about one aspect of an invention which has since lapsed into public domain."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Automating Everything - Disaster Management and Medical Intervention
futureimperative.blogspot.com/2016/06/automa…
"“This oversight method of managing multiple robots can be applied to other services as well."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Faced with a major fire1, robotically flown helicopters or planes2 could transport water to be dumped on a blaze3, with the human pilots handling takeoffs4, landings5, choosing the drop locations6 and any in-flight pickups of water scooped off nearby bodies of water7."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "The time-delay would have to be non-existent, of course, but a whole series of automated planes could go back and forth to take on a rampant wildfire."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Similarly on the ground, humanoid robots1 with programming in basic tasks could be insulated against extreme heat2 and set to certain roles (clearing brush3, raking4, holding and pointing hoses5) under the direction of very few overseers6..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...who would mostly take care of deploying them to an area and task, and changing their orders and intervening in novel situations as necessary."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Squads of these robots could be packed into a cargo helicopter7 and deployed rapidly wherever they were needed to supplement existing firefighting teams8."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury “Other disasters requiring very large numbers of “boots on the ground” could also benefit from having squads or even battalions of these machines available for basic tasks."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Remote oversight could be further supplemented by giving key on-site personnel the ability to issue verbal commands."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Voice recognition9 or other identifying characteristics (including carrying wireless devices identifying those in authority10) could be used to limit who is able to make commands, and basic programming would limit exactly what orders could be understood and obeyed."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Medical services in remote locations could also be provided by this combination of software and remote human oversight."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "For example, robots might be able to handle the application of sensors, localized sterilization or anaesthetization and certain other aspects of pre-surgical preparation, while still enabling remote surgeons and nurses to handle more subtle aspects of the work."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "The chief difference in design from external mechanical or electronic repairs would be a sterile environment with tracks laid down for robotic assistants and locations for humanoid robots to lock themselves in position –"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...a steadying element for any machine holding surgical tools, in addition to the human-supplied direction of their actions."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "A patient would be guided by either human or robotic assistance1 to a motorized bed capable of guiding and moving itself to surgery2 or a scanner3 (a variant of the basic delivery cart, in the form of a hospital bed)."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "The bed would, if needed, take the patient to the location of the procedure. At that location, robots on tracks4 would move into position (or remain in position), locking themselves into position by dropping short shafts5 into holes6 cut in the floor for added stability."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "These robots would handle the functions entrusted to them and humans and/or remotely overseen humanoid robots7 would handle the rest.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "An Amber Alert scan could be made of crowds or individual children by concerned private citizens, initially comparing against recent Amber Alerts and similar notifications, but eventually being compared to larger databases if someone is making a report to authorities."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Eventually enabling autoscanning of minors in public for any reported missing. This system could eventually have an opt-in function, allowing it to run whenever the camera is in use."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Most Wanted scans would work on similar principles as above, but for Most Wanted criminals and then for everyone the public has been notified is being sought for arrest.

"Part 5 of 9 - Further Light-Based Applications for Pathogens, Contaminants and Nanophages"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "There are further applications using light, among other tools, for detecting pathogens, which also employs refractive indices, light absorption and scattering and morphological features, as well as identifying the relevance of those features, especially in combination..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...as seen in the following discussion of detecting cancer using deep learning with a “95% success rate with a throughput of millions of cells per second.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Deep Learning and Cancer Research"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Deep Learning in Label-free Cell Classification"
nature.com/articles/srep2…

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Label-free cell analysis is essential to personalized genomics, cancer diagnostics, and drug development as it avoids adverse effects of staining reagents on cellular viability and cell signaling.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""However, currently available label-free cell assays mostly rely only on a single feature and lack sufficient differentiation. Also, the sample size analyzed by these assays is limited due to their low throughput.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""Here, we integrate feature extraction and deep learning with high-throughput quantitative imaging enabled by photonic time stretch, achieving record high accuracy in label-free cell classification.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""Our system captures quantitative optical phase and intensity images and extracts multiple biophysical features of individual cells. These biophysical measurements form a hyperdimensional feature space in which supervised learning is performed for cell classification.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""We compare various learning algorithms including artificial neural network, support vector machine, logistic regression, and a novel deep learning pipeline, which adopts global optimization of receiver operating characteristics.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""As a validation of the enhanced sensitivity and specificity of our system, we show classification of white blood T-cells against colon cancer cells, as well as lipid accumulating algal strains for biofuel production.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""This system opens up a new path to data-driven phenotypic diagnosis and better understanding of the heterogeneous gene expressions in cells.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "The above would be only an aspect of detecting and analyzing weapons of mass destruction (alongside the detection of illegal drugs) from trace elements in the air, water and occasional medical samples, sewage and so forth."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "To begin, let us consider a simple means for filtering harmful nano-aerosols from air samples, electrostatic filtration, as exemplified below, though we would likely be using our own variant on the technique."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "PolyU develops electrostatically charged nanofiber for airborne filtration"
phys.org/news/2019-03-p…

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Nano-aerosols of 100 nm and below in diameter exist everywhere in urban environments, and by virtue of their small sizes, can be easily inhaled into human bodies."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Most airborne viruses, from influenza to epidemic viruses like Swine Flu or SARS, are also in the size range of 100 nm."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury <More on using electrostatics to collect small particulates, as seen on spiderwebs, redacted for brevity>

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Part 6 of 9 - Whispering-Gallery Mode Biosensors"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Again, we will be particularly interested in the creation or deposition of advanced sensory devices during photolithography, thus producing miniaturized sensors integrated into microchips – the most efficient means of mass production we have."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "For example, depositing a layer of nanoshell microspheres on the surface of a chip (or part of a chip) and simply removing the deposited layer not including live contacts between usable microspheres and the chip."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Gold nano-receptors could be added earlier, deposited onto charged spheres. By using careful masking (or an array of individual, tiny chips), you can create different sections hosting different sensors, but differentiate what can be detected by upgrading the controlling software

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Whispering gallery-mode sensors transmit tunable laser light down a fiber-optic cable where the intensity is measured at the far end. Lasers have been created at the sub-micron scale silicon chips since the early 1990s."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Silicon wafers could be connected to such fiber-optic lines or at least provide them with the requisite laser light for a miniaturized system, such as one integrated into a smartphone or an electronically active smartphone protective sleeve (as mentioned earlier)."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Let us consider these sensors briefly:

"Whispering gallery-mode biosensors are worth shouting about"
phys.org/news/2016-09-g…

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Instead, the researchers were able to detect the smallest RNA virus particle MS2, with a mass of only 6 attograms, by amplifying the sensitivity of a biosensor.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""Within it, light from a tunable laser was guided down a fiber optic cable, where its intensity was measured by a detector on the far end. A small glass sphere was brought into contact with the fiber, diverting the light's path and causing it to orbit within the sphere.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""This change was recorded as a resonant dip in the transmission through the fiber. When a viral particle made contact with the sphere, it changed the sphere's properties, resulting in a detectable shift in resonance frequency.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“The smaller the particle, the harder it had been to record changes in the frequency. Fairly large viruses such as influenza had been successfully detected with similar sensors in the past.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""But many smaller viruses, such as polio, and antibody proteins required increased sensitivity.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Arnold and his co-researchers achieved this by attaching gold nano-receptors to the resonant microsphere. These receptors were plasmonic and thus enhanced the electric field nearby, making small disturbances easier to detect.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""Each gold "hot spot" was treated with specific molecules, which attract and bind to proteins or viruses.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Just months after setting that record, Arnold and his team announced a new breakthrough:"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""They used a nano-enhanced version of their patented microcavity biosensor to detect a single cancer marker protein, which is one-sixth the size of the smallest virus, and even smaller molecules below the mass of all known markers.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""This achievement shattered the previous record, setting a new benchmark for the most sensitive limit of detection.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""Unlike previous technology, which attached a fluorescent molecule, or label, to the antigen to allow it to be seen, Arnold's new process detected the antigen without an interfering label.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Among other advances, Arnold and his colleagues note that the ability to follow a signal in real time—to actually witness the detection of a single disease marker protein and track its movement—is yielding new understanding of how proteins attach to antibodies.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Devoted to biosensing at the very smallest extremes, the event drew members of the global scientific community who use the patented Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators for molecular diagnostics, single-molecule analysis, nanoparticle detection, and manipulation..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...as well as other forms of bio-sensing and various commercial and scientific applications. There was palpable excitement there at the possibility" ... "of detecting nano-scale antibodies—produced by the body in reaction to invading viruses—"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""...well before existing medical tests could detect the virus itself.”"

""Breakthrough in photonic biosensors could lead to super-accurate diagnostic and detectors""
phys.org/news/2018-03-b…

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ...

""Arnold and collaborators then devised a way to make these WGM biosensors sensitive enough to identify even the smallest individual bio-particles from the RNA virus MS2 to single molecules down to 6 zepto-grams (10?21 grams), below the mass of all known cancer markers.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Now, Arnold and his team at NYU Tandon's MicroParticle PhotoPhysics Laboratory for BioPhotonics (MP3L) are the first to find a way to determine the density of charges on an area of a WGM micro-bead's surface, as well as the charge of an ensnared nanoparticle or virus...""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""...by measuring how light frequency fluctuates as the tiny particle follows its wobbly course around the sphere. This discovery could allow researchers and manufacturers not just to identify nanoparticles, but to manipulate them.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“The WGM biosensor, which Arnold named for the famous Whispering Gallery in the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, is a device the size of a small smartphone comprising a tunable laser guided down a specially treated fiber optic filament with a detector at the far end...""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...of the filament measuring the light's intensity and resonance. A tiny silica bead next to the filament diverts a portion of the light beam, which begins to resonate within the bead the way sound resonates under the dome of the church gallery for which the phenomenon is named.

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“While the WGM biosensor's ability to identify individual nanoparticles led to highly sensitive measuring capabilities, Arnold's latest discovery could make possible biosensors tailored to very specific applications...""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""...from wearable sensors for soldiers and rescuers designed to detect extremely low concentrations of a suspected airborne nerve agent, to ways of increasing the efficiency of nanoparticle drug uptake and redistribution.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""“"Charge controls the ability to transport particles that are interacting with cells and other objects that possess electric fields," he said. "By determining the charge of a virus, for example, you can understand how it can be transported to the cell surface.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""You need to understand this mechanism in order to engineer a WGM micro-bead that has a specific antigen at a specific region of its surface so that the biosensor can attract specific pathogens or other biomolecules.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Arnold and the MP3L team were able to extract the electrostatic force between the orbiting nanoparticle and the surface of the glass bead through experiments based on the observation that the nano-orbital phenomenon requires a near balance between the electrostatic force...""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""...and the known optical tractor beam force, just as a weighing scale balances the force of a spring against your body's weight.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“"The difference in the strength of the force being measured is extraordinarily small," said Arnold, who explained that the measured electrostatic force involved in keeping a nanoparticle in orbit was only 0.00000000000003 (3x10-14) pounds."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury """With this force in hand both the charge on the nanoparticle and the microcavity charge density could be calculated through a series of experiments."""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""The team next plans to use the discovery to develop technology for "photonic printing," the ability to quickly create numerous task-specific WGM biosensors, with specific molecules attached to specific areas of the micro-bead.”""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Other whispering gallery-mode sensor options include testing all known atoms, molecules, pathogens, etc to create a database so that anomalous datapoints will stand out and, under the right circumstances, trigger a deeper analysis."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Low-powered scans include using the electromagnetic spectrum to see whether light, IR, UV, X-rays, etc are reflected, refracted or absorbed."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "This in particular for larger, discrete objects such as larger pathogens, unknown potential allergens or possible nanophages."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "As noted in the discussion of deep learning and cancer research, morphological features are meaningful on larger specimens potentially analyzed via automated visual scanning."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Laser spectroscopy, mass spectrometers, electron capture detectors and even force-electron microscopes could ultimately be embedded in these systems. Quantum wells can form surface-emitting lasers directly on the surface of a microchip."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Quantum wire lasers can also be integrated into these chips, and can apparently turn on and off at least 40-billion times a second."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Magnetoresistive materials made from quantum wells using layers of magnetic and nonmagnetic materials are approximately a million times as sensitive to magnetism as iron, offering a way to sense subtle or dramatic changes in electromagnetic fields."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "The key question to ask is if a tool is practical, easily manufactured on a very large scale and ideally trivial to miniaturize and incredibly cheap."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "But we do not need to include every possibility at once, even if reasonably practical and cost-effective. We will want to leverage existing sensors and then steadily upgrade to the most easily added and/or effective additional instruments."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Continuously adding to our sensory arsenal and CNN refinement will make evading these systems ever-more daunting."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Part 7 of 9 - Quantum Dots, Dropout and Other Unusual Resources

"There are various ways to induce a static charge on particles to help guide them to our microscale sensor arrays."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "One option would be to draw suspect samples into a zero viscosity superfluid of helium and to guide them to their destination by turning on and off attractive microcurrents as necessary."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Quantum dots of ten nanometers or smaller can produce significant quantum phenomena at room temperature. A dilution refrigerator can reduce temperatures below 1 Kelvin for larger quantum dots. Quantum dots could potentially form weak chemical bonds."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "If we can detect when we form these bonds and release them along with the voltage at will, they can form an excellent means of collecting atoms and molecules for testing or lining up GATCs in DNA/RNA pairings either for analysis or the rapid synthesis of vaccines or antigens."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Quantum dots in arrays could be activated to form the molecular receptors for viruses or to provide their side of DNA-RNA pairs for the rapid synthetization of vaccines, antigens and genetically or molecularly engineered substances."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Viruses and bacteria could be drawn into filters and other traps through electrostatics and then released by a cessation of power. Cutting the voltage for quantum-dot threads or films could also release the non-quantum-dot side of an RNA-DNA chain."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Three-dimensional structures can contain quantum dots forming a line, even if the contact points sometimes have to be edges or corners in order to fit in such small spaces. Ironically, even more complex spirals may be required to match some natural segments of RNA or DNA..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...but it could be done through the folding and twisting of these lines of quantum dots in three-dimensions. This may be a way to synthesize such molecules rapidly (also useful for other aspects of nanotechnology)."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "If they can still bond at extremely low temperatures (and if anything, that should be very helpful when using quantum dots), then superfluid helium may prove an excellent medium for microfluidics to convey these molecules through the manufacturing process..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...being inert as well having zero viscosity. Otherwise, ordinary microfluidic mediums will do."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Experts in convolutional neural networks will be able to advise you on a number of methods to avoid overfitting in you GAN training, creating a program that merely mirrors the original datasets rather than learning from them. Dropout is one such tool to avoid this issue."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Training Deep Neural Networks with Dropout"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting"
cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/…

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Deep neural nets with a large number of parameters are very powerful machine learningsystems. However, overfitting is a serious problem in such networks.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""Large networks are also slow to use, making it difficult to deal with overfitting by combining the predictions of manydifferent large neural nets at test time. Dropout is a technique for addressing this problem.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""The key idea is to randomly drop units (along with their connections) from the neuralnetwork during training. This prevents units from co-adapting too much. During training,dropout samples from an exponential number of different “thinned” networks.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""At test time,it is easy to approximate the effect of averaging the predictions of all these thinned networksby simply using a single unthinned network that has smaller weights. This significantlyreduces overfitting and gives major improvements over other regularization methods.

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""We show that dropout improves the performance of neural networks on supervised learningtasks in vision, speech recognition, document classification and computational biology, obtaining state-of-the-art results on many benchmark data sets.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "A key factor in creating GANs is employing relevant training sets."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "While we want to avoid overfitting, one method is to train on data gathered on existing cases, or which features known criminals, including foreign assets, operatives and moles, especially formidable and/or evasive ones."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Dropout is not the only method to avoid overfitting, and we are interested in more than just physical sensors. These drugs and weapons of mass destruction do not move themselves."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Another method is to train on different crimes and/or datasets regarding the same crimes, which also shed light on what is most effective and what critical mass of data is needed for narrower selections of data –"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "... just automated sifting of video, facial recognition of contacts and assessment of who those contacts were – as opposed to broader datasets –"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...financial/cryptocurrency transfers, relevant communications, tracking potential dead drops/brush pasts and other evidence used to enrich the above video surveillance and analysis."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Datasets used to track drugs and WMDs can be combined with other critical information, such as vehicle movements, video surveillance/analysis, known networks and criminals, financial/cryptocurrency transfers, etc… or not."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Training multiple GANs with different resources not only enhances their ability to fulfill their role (and may be necessary for techniques relying on data sparsity), but also keeps them relevant in activities that fall slightly outside it."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "For example, tracking drugs and WMDs alone, no matter how effectively, may prove useless if the systems declare an operation “clean” if it is verified to have no controlled substances but is instead engaged in extensive human trafficking."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Espionage would also typically escape such a narrowly defined mission. But the red flags will remain relevant, especially if automation allows us to build a database of useful information."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Furthermore, we should realize some data needs to be quarantined for other reasons, such as legal issues with warrants for specific investigations, sensitive intelligence, or simply limiting an assessment to a specific subset of crimes or a specific geographic area –"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...along with any relevant evidence outside those limits, of course – in order to avoid too many searches exceeding the limits of our readily available computational resources."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "We, again, may be able to mobilize computer clusters isolated from the larger Internet to address embarrassingly parallel problems separately and feed the answers back to the CNN or GAN, and eventually we should be able to incorporate quantum search into this work."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Another point to remember in keeping this modular and using multiple GANs and evidence sources is that every unanticipated and/or radically more powerful technology or dataset adds that much more to our capacity..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...and makes all of this crowdsourced and other sensory data that much harder to counter."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Hence, exascale and zetascale computation, quantum search, massively parallelized analysis of embarrassingly parallel problems, evolutionary algorithms and certain sensors and evidence sources discussed either here or elsewhere..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "...are all resources we will want to incorporate where possible.

"Part 8 of 9 - Cyberwarfare Data and Unusual Data Sources

"There will be a number of novel sources of relevant data, too many, in fact, to assess properly here."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "But here is a potential one from my roughly 9/30/18 message to the FBI (sent near midnight, apparently):"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“In roughly mid-September, 2017, I offered some suggestions to the FBI on how cryptocurrency, botnets and other online instruments of the Darknet and the criminal underworld could be used to track crime and espionage on an unprecedented scale."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“I am writing now because I have another powerful potential tool to offer law enforcement."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Incidents of hacking, including malware, have been increasingly used by transnational organized crime, terrorists and hostile nations to undermine the rule of law and democratic institutions."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury “Because of the complexities in tracking these activities and securing the necessary jurisdiction and authorization for warrants, intelligence intercepts, unmasking and so forth, this task becomes even more difficult for the individuals and institutions tasked with protecting us.

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""The public-domain nature of cryptocurrency was of course key to my original message in 2017."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“I have something similar, designed to ferret out even more data regarding hostile actors, and again making use of public-domain information likely requiring no warrants at all..."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""...but enabling a vast and incredibly thorough scan of most of the heavily trafficked regions of the Internet."

"“The use of malware on emails and websites is no secret, and allows botnets and hackers access to a host of computers.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury <Method for tracking most global malware, redacted>

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“We could cross reference this information with what is known about the ownership of those websites, known botnets or rampant malware which might have inserted itself into the systems, information held by the Mueller investigation and other immense sources of evidence."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“Examples include the de facto cryptocurrency map of criminal and espionage activities linked to easily traced cryptocurrency transfers, archived data and evidence from botnets and the offshore leaks database on money-laundering LLCs."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“The FBI would be in a position to relentlessly track and thwart malware, but you can do so much more.

"“You can traces sources, vectors, strategies, tactics, ongoing operations, participants and intentions.”"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "Part 9 of 9 - Further Cyberwarfare Data and Unusual Data Sources"

"Here is a follow up to the follow up to that message I sent to the FBI on 1/2/19:
"“To whom it may concern:"

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“On December 30th, I contacted the FBI with a way to potentially automate the tracking of most malware as a follow up to some earlier suggestions I put forward this September."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“I would like to expand on that subject, as I believe the method has applications to more crimes than just the use and distribution of malware and related hacking attempts."

<Second and probably far more powerful method of tracking most global malware, redacted>

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury <Method for mapping and eliminating illegal online-influence networks, redacted>

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury "“I am not providing full-scale quantum supercomputing with these suggestions, though a Hadoop cluster might serve as a cheap way to augment processor power for any basic task that can be broken down into embarrassingly parallel problems.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""More importantly, you could narrow your search to specific subsets of your DNS database involving suspect sites, computers or even botnets rather than trying a global search as the starting point of every investigation.""

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury ""Sifting data in manageable pieces may be one of your most useful tools.””

"Once again, thank you for all that you do."

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury So, the above thread represents the redacted version.

I apologize for having to redact the most-powerful elements, and for any imperfections.

I do all of this in a very thin sliver of spare time, with no resources.

The unredacted version is less than 12,000 words.

@ericgarland @FBI @DeptofDefense @DHSgov @NSAGov @DARPA @CDCgov @NIH @TheJusticeDept @RepAdamSchiff @USTreasury But it is one of four messages I sent to the @FBI in the first four days of this decade, alone.

I hope the above overview proves useful.

For those engaged in protecting us all, thank you for all that you do.