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Aging porn stars….too funny.

Spy Agencies Are Like Old-School Porn — But That's Changing

EXTRACT

The traditional intelligence agencies are a lot like the old-school porn industry: they're still trying to make and sell porn like it's 1979, even though a lot of what they're selling is just hanging out online, free for anyone to download at their leisure. To stay relevant, they need to stop wasting money on producing material they or their customers can get for free and develop new ways to find, collect, and curate that sexy, sexy free intelligence information.

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Robert Steele's complete answers (13 pages) below the fold.

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2015/08/252015/08/23

Sepp Hasslberger: Backfeed, Blockchain, Distributed Everything

03 Economy, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Economics/True Cost

The vision is one where we can do, with direct collaboration, much of what corporations and governments do today, and we can do it better.

Backfeed wants to decentralize the Internet and help you earn what you deserve

The blockchain makes the local to global egalitarian economy possible.

2015/08/252015/08/25

Stephen E. Arnold: Sharepoint and Elasticsearch + Sharepoint Dedicated Feed from Arnold IT

Advanced Cyber/IO

The Integration of Elasticsearch and Sharepoint Adds Capabilities

By enabling Elastic’s powerful real-time search and analytics capabilities in SharePoint, enterprises will be able to optimize how they use data within their applications and portals.” “Combining Elasticsearch and SharePoint opens up a world of exciting applications for our customers, ranging from geosearch and pattern search through search on machine data, data visualization, and low-latency search,” said Jeff Fried, CTO of BA Insight.”

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Sharepoint Dedicated Feed @ Arnold IT

2015/08/232015/08/23

Mongoose: Rocky Anderson Sues USG & NASA — PBI on 3 Revolutions Emergent

Advanced Cyber/IO

The perfect storm is brewing.

Former Salt Lake City mayor sues Bush administration, NSA for spying

The former mayor of Salt Lake City is suing former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and the National Security Agency for spying on the city during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

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2015/08/172015/08/16

Berto Jongman: FireChat Breaks All The Rules

Advanced Cyber/IO

This app lets you text without Wi-Fi or a data plan anywhere in the world — even on a plane

Forget exorbitant roaming charges, overpriced international data packages, or spotty internet coverage. FireChat is the perfect travel app, allowing users to send and receive text messages entirely without data or internet thanks to something called mesh networking.

2015/08/132015/08/11

Steven Aftergood: Librarian of Congress Opportunity

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, Government

A New Direction for the Library of Congress?

With the impending retirement of the longtime Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, there is an opportunity for a fundamental reconsideration of the function and operation of the Library of Congress. In particular, the time may be ripe for a massive expansion of the Library’s digitized holdings, enabling universal public access to its historic and cultural riches.

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2015/08/112015/08/10

Stephen E. Arnold: Hack Your Death — Digital Disappearance

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency

Misinformation How To: You Can Build a False Identity

The Def Con hit talk is summarized in “Rush to Put Death Records Online Lets Anyone Be Killed.” The main idea is that one can fill out forms (inject) containing misinformation. Various “services” suck in the info and then make “smart” decisions about that information. Plug in the right combination of fake and shaped data, and a living human being can be declared “officially” dead. There are quite a few implications of this method which is capturing the imaginations of real and would be bad actors. Why swizzle through the so called Dark Web when you can do it yourself. The question is, “How do search engines identify and filter this type of information?” Oh, right. The search engines do not. Quality and perceived accuracy are defined within the context of advertising and government grants.