Frode Weierud
@frode-weierud.bsky.social
Retired CERN engineer seriously interested in cryptology and its history. Enjoys ham radio, code breaking, programming, reading, walking and good coffee. AKA LA2RL.
Who wrote the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States of America? AI, a nine-year-old child or the Kremlin?
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Who wrote the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States of America? AI, a nine-year-old child or the Kremlin?
Science collaboration during the Cold War, which now seems like a utopian idea.
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Competing for Collaboration on Particle Accelerators in the Multipolar Cold War World - Physics in Perspective
This article explores the entanglement of scientific collaboration and Cold War geopolitics through the lens of four major particle accelerator complexes: CERN (Europe), JINR/Dubna and IHEP/Serpukhov ...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Science collaboration during the Cold War, which now seems like a utopian idea.
doi.org/10.1007/s000...
doi.org/10.1007/s000...
The replacement for Enigma that came too late,
Schlüsselgerät 41. Open Access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Schlüsselgerät 41. Open Access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Revealing secrets from WWII: the original German instructions of Schlüsselgerät 41
Schlüsselgerät 41 (cipher device 41) is a rare but very advanced mechanical cipher machine from World War II. It was developed by Fritz Menzer in 1941, and used by the German Abwehr at the end of t...
www.tandfonline.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The replacement for Enigma that came too late,
Schlüsselgerät 41. Open Access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Schlüsselgerät 41. Open Access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The risk of device penetration is increasing for high-level targets.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cisa-w...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cisa-w...
CISA Warns Threat Actors Are Using Commercial Spyware To Target Signal, Telegram & WhatsApp Users
The U.S.
www.linkedin.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The risk of device penetration is increasing for high-level targets.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cisa-w...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cisa-w...
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Do me a favor and forward this post.This needs to get out to everyone. We need to be unified.
Congress, pay attention. We the People decide where our money goes — not the President. And we are demanding full support for Ukraine, with everything they need to win. Trump does not hold the power of the purse. The American people do. Act accordingly.
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Do me a favor and forward this post.This needs to get out to everyone. We need to be unified.
Donald Trump and his administration's new definition of Thanksgiving.
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www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. pushing Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thanksgiving or lose support
The U.S. is now sending “signals” that everything could be off the table if Kyiv does not quickly sign a proposal, which was drawn up by special envoy Witkoff.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Donald Trump and his administration's new definition of Thanksgiving.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
OpenAI is showing its teeth, not a friendly smile but an ugly grin.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The New Brutality of OpenAI
The company is pursuing aggressive legal tactics against its opponents.
www.theatlantic.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
OpenAI is showing its teeth, not a friendly smile but an ugly grin.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
An increasingly rotten Apple that risks ending up in the trash bin.
forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/vent-about...
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Vent About Apple's Cruddy Recent Treatment of Developers
Warning: this post may (will) contain whinging. I am genuinely seething right now over the way Apple treats developers who spend hours and hours of their time conscientiously reporting bugs. Wheneve...
forum.literatureandlatte.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM
An increasingly rotten Apple that risks ending up in the trash bin.
forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/vent-about...
forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/vent-about...
I have never understood why so many black people, especially black men, voted for Trump, the biggest bigot in US history. However, the results of their vote are now available for all to see.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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U.S. WWII cemetery in the Netherlands removes displays about Black troops
The Netherlands American Cemetery previously had two displays honoring Black American soldiers’ experiences in World War II.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I have never understood why so many black people, especially black men, voted for Trump, the biggest bigot in US history. However, the results of their vote are now available for all to see.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
The lust for knowledge is a positive thing as long as it is based on facts and embedded in truth. Through scrolls, texts, books, and encyclopedias, we have quenched our thirst for knowledge. For better or worse, we then got Wikipedia and now the horror — Nazipedia.
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
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Elon Musk’s AI Grokipedia takes on ‘Wokipedia’
The billionaire’s online encyclopaedia vows to counter Wikipedia’s ‘bias’, but includes entries on far-right figures with selective omissions
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The lust for knowledge is a positive thing as long as it is based on facts and embedded in truth. Through scrolls, texts, books, and encyclopedias, we have quenched our thirst for knowledge. For better or worse, we then got Wikipedia and now the horror — Nazipedia.
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
Russian propaganda, infiltration and Quislings in the High North.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/apparen...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/apparen...
'Apparently, God himself commanded the Russian Orthodox bishop to build a chapel right under NATO radars'
Russian security forces are strengthening their influence in northern Norway — and sowing division within the country.
www.thebarentsobserver.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Russian propaganda, infiltration and Quislings in the High North.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/apparen...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/apparen...
My FOIA request regarding the Combined Cipher Machine (CCM) has resulted in the release of 5 documents related to wheel-motion studies on this machine. Britain and the USA used the CCM during the Second World War, and NATO used it in the 1950s. Continued...
Crypto Cellar Research | Combined Cipher Machine
Enigma History contains historical documents about the cipher machine Enigma, its origin, development and production.
cryptocellar.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My FOIA request regarding the Combined Cipher Machine (CCM) has resulted in the release of 5 documents related to wheel-motion studies on this machine. Britain and the USA used the CCM during the Second World War, and NATO used it in the 1950s. Continued...
Meet Mark Gubrud, the man who coined the term Artificial General Intelligence.
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The Man Who Invented AGI
Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat.
www.wired.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Meet Mark Gubrud, the man who coined the term Artificial General Intelligence.
www.wired.com/story/the-ma...
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