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Mexican Government Releases Proof of E.T.’s and Ancient Space Travel

In what will soon be considered as the Holy Grail of extraterrestrial research, the Mexican government has released ancient documents proving the existence of E.T.’s once and for all.

[1] The two circles near the center of the artifact appear to be earth. [2] This appears to be a spacecraft of some type. [3] This appears to be a massive comet or asteroid headed toward earth. [4] Appears to be a specially designed spacecraft capable of deflecting a large comet or meteor, such as NASA “Deep Impact”. [5] Appears to be an astronaut in control of a craft. [6] What appears to be an intelligently controlled spacecraft.

 

CALAKMUL, MEXICO (INTELLIHUB) — Newly released Mayan documents, i.e. artifacts, dating back at least 1300-years reveal that the human race is not alone and highly advanced technologies including space travel have likely existed for quite some time.

Not only does this documentation released by the Mexican government show the existence of an explorer race, it may also reveal the roots of mankind.

Some consider the government’s presentation of the information to be a major step forward for humanity as the truth is finally being slowly let out. Hopefully this will prompt other governments around the world to be more forthcoming with such information, turning the tide in the UFO and extraterrestrial research community for good.

Sundance winner Juan Carlos Rulfo’s Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond also touches on such technology. “Producer Raul Julia-Levy said the documentary-makers were working in cooperation with the Mexican government for what he said was “the good of mankind”. He said the order to collaborate had come directly from the country’s president, Álvaro Colom Caballeros.

“Mexico will release codices, artefacts and significant documents with evidence of Mayan and extraterrestrial contact, and all of their information will be corroborated by archaeologists,” he said. “The Mexican government is not making this statement on their own – everything we say, we’re going to back it up.”

Caballeros himself was conspicuous by his absence from the statement released by Julia-Levy. So far, the minister of tourism for the Mexican state of Campeche, Luis Augusto García Rosado, appears to be the highest-ranking government official to go on record confirming the discovery of extraterrestrial life, but he’s not holding back.

In a statement, Rosado spoke of contact “between the Mayans and extraterrestrials, supported by translations of certain codices, which the government has kept secure in underground vaults for some time”. In a telephone conversation with the Wrap, he also spoke of “landing pads in the jungle that are 3,000 years old”._[2] 

These secrets have been said to be “protected” by the mexican government for as long as 80-years.

Source: Intellihub

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Junk Food Linked To Memory Loss

Australia’s ABC News 24 reports that fast food is trying to kill your brain:

A team of researchers from the University of New South Wales has uncovered a link between junk food and memory loss. The team placed rats on a diet high in sugar and fat and compared their performance with rodents on a healthy diet.

Lead researcher Margaret Morris says the rats on the poor diet developed an impaired memory after just six days. “Poor diet was associated with a cognitive decline that happened very quickly,” she told AM.

Professor Morris says the memory issues became apparent well before the animals showed any physical symptoms. “The animals of course weren’t obese after just six days on the diet. So the changes in cognition, the loss of memory, happened well before there was any weight change,” she said.

Researchers show MacBook webcams can be hijacked without turning on indicator light

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Researchers have demonstrated the ability to remotely hack into a MacBook webcam without triggering the indicator light, a capability which the FBI has reportedly had for several years.

In August, it was revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) calls on its employees to physically remove the built-in webcam from Apple laptops for security reasons.

The findings of the researchers, first reported on by The Washington Post, are especially interesting because Apple laptops have the indicator LED hardwired to the camera.

This hardwiring is designed to activate the light whenever the camera is activated, a feature that should prevent the remote activation of the webcam without the user’s knowledge.

The researchers looked at 2008 MacBooks and MacBook Pros, so it is unclear if the results also apply to today’s Apple laptops.

The researchers from Johns Hopkins University told the Post that “similar techniques could work on more recent computers from a wide variety of vendors.”

“In other words, if a laptop has a built-in camera, it’s possible someone — whether the federal government or a malicious 19 year old — could access it to spy on the user at any time,” the Post reports.

Stephen Checkoway, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins who co-authored the study, found a way to remotely reprogram the iSight camera’s micro-controller chip that is supposed to establish a hardware-level interlock between the camera and the indicator light, according to The Verge.

The researchers provided the Post with a copy of their proof-of-concept software, demonstrating how the camera can be remotely activated without turning on the indicator light.

“People are starting to think about what happens when you can reprogram each of those,” said Charlie Miller, a security expert working for Twitter, referring to micro-controllers like the one attached to the iSight camera.

Miller cited an attack that could rapidly discharge Apple batteries via the micro-controller, which could potentially lead to a fire or even an explosion.

Using a similar method, another researcher demonstrated how the built-in Apple keyboard could be turned into spyware.

While the paper only cites the earlier generation of Apple products, Miller contends that similar attacks could apply to new Apple systems.

“There’s no reason you can’t do it — it’s just a lot of work and resources but it depends on how well [Apple] secured the hardware,” Miller said to the Post.

Apple did not reply to the Post’s requests for comment, but what is more troubling is the response the researchers received from company representatives.

“Apple employees followed up several times but did not inform us of any possible mitigation plans,” the researchers wrote in the study.

While Apple supposedly has the indicator light hardwired to the camera, many others do not offer such a feature.

“Logitech cameras, for example, have a software-controlled LED,” Ars Technica reports. However, this is designed to work with a software feature that allows them to be used as motion-activated security cameras.

“Whether this design makes sense for most users, given the apparent abundance of surreptitious webcam-based spying, is less clear,” notes Peter Bright for Ars Technica.

On a positive note, secure designs for the indicator light are indeed possible but software-mediated hardware interlocks for indicator lights remain vulnerable.

Ars sums it up quite rightly in saying, “When it comes to protecting against webcam spying, you should ignore the technology and simply tape over the camera.”

Source: End the Lie

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