Strike, lightning did….
Four Lightning Strikes in Belgium Erase Google Customer Data
Yoda: Google Going Up In Flames
IO Impotency, IO TechnologiesMongoose: Serval Open Source Mesh for Android
Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency
“Communications should not just be for the geographically, financially or otherwise fortunate — for it is the unfortunate who need it most.”
Serval is a telecommunications system comprised of at least two mobile phones that are able to work outside of regular mobile phone tower range due thanks to the Serval App and Serval Mesh. Some of the most exciting benefits of this are: communicate anytime, communicate anywhere, communicate privately.
Serval is also pioneering an Open-Source Collapsable Communications Tower.
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Jean Lievens: Rob Kitchin on Data-Driven Urbanism — Not So Smart, Serving Special Interests
Cloud, Data, IO Impotency
Abstract:
For as long as data have been generated about cities various kinds of data-informed urbanism have been occurring. In this paper, I argue that a new era is presently unfolding wherein data-informed urbanism is increasingly being complemented and replaced by data-driven, networked urbanism. . . . HOWEVER, whilst data-driven, networked urbanism provides a set of solutions for urban problems, it does so within limitations and in the service of particular interests.
Berto Jongman: USG Kill Switch for Cellular Confirmed
07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement, Military
Two weeks later, we may have finally gotten an answer to that question…at least if we look in between the lines. Standard Operating Procedure 303 (SOP303) is the federal government's ‘kill switch policy'. Once called ‘conspiracy theory' by government trolls and the uninformed, the government kill switch program is very real…conspiracy theory no longer, and it's now going before the US Supreme Court.
Map of Outages Below the Fold
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Stephen E. Arnold: Oracle’s Seriously Stupid Security “Chief”
IO Impotency, IO Technologies
I read “Oracle’s Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson Just Made as Rookie Mistake.” No, it has nothing to do with trying to breathe life into Oracle Secure Enterprise Search or increasing the content processing speed of Endeca. Those might be really difficult tasks.
Read full post with copy of seriously stupid post by Oracle security “chief.”
Berto Jongman: 6 Corporations Control Science
Access, IO ImpotencyNearly All Scientific Papers Controlled By Same Six Corporations
Researchers looked at scientific literature published between 1973 – 2013 and found that companies ACS, Reed Elsevier, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell controlled nearly every single one.
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Stephen E. Arnold: Hack Your Death — Digital Disappearance
Advanced Cyber/IO, IO ImpotencyMisinformation 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.
