The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
We do not make this stuff up. Tip of the Hat to Abel Danger.
Birth to Total Information Awareness (Privatizing What Was Previously Government Information)
Phi Beta Iota: Covers loss of data integrity and protection, idiocy of changing gender on original birth certificates (with life long data implications), Real ID denying domestic travel absent the ID, and social credit control.
PBI: Post title by PBI editor. Worth a full read:
Google Search Index: Losing Relevance
Google and Right to Be Forgotten: Selective Indexing Gets a Green Light
Civil resistance is interesting. Civil idiocy less so. This is a minor league equivalency to #GoogleGestapo claiming it has the right to deplatform anyone it does not agree with.
The Great Open Source Divide: ICE, Hippocratic License and the Controversy
Google: Managing Staff a Challenge
DarkCyber is not sure about the accuracy of “Exclusive: Google Insider Turns Over 950 Pages Of Docs And Laptop To DOJ.”
What struck DarkCyber as interesting is that the cache of documents has not made much of a splash in the last few weeks.
Lloyds of London will not insure against 5G
See Also: 5G @ Phi Beta Iota
Commercial threat intelligence has become a key Army tool
What we find is, we go out and we buy commercial threat intel,” Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, the head of Army Cyber Command, said Sept. 16 at an event hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army.
In addition, the recently retired head of Special Operations Command, Gen. Raymond “Tony” Thomas has described how intelligence will begin with open source and then officials will fill in the gaps with information from classified channels. The proliferation of technology and information sharing capability is “forcing us to reconsider the art and science of intelligence,” he said in August 2018.
Now that AI has gotten reasonably good at generating fake news, we have a study that emphasizes how dangerous such false articles can be. The Association for Psychological Science reports, “Fake News Can Lead to False Memories.” While the study, from the University College Cork, was performed on Irish citizens ahead of a vote on an abortion referendum, its results can easily apply to voters in any emotional or partisan contest. Like, say, next year’s U.S. presidential election.
