Category: Information Operations (IO)

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Yoda: The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

Corruption, Government, IO Impotency

Ahhhh, soooo.

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

Nested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community. Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships.

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Stephen E. Arnold: #GoogleGestapo (Google) Sells Access to All Your Emails

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Google: Privacy May Be a Relative Concept

Google is concerned about its users privacy. It has options for users to turn off data sharing to protect their privacy. Google says it has these options…supposedly. Fortune shares how Google is breaking its privacy promises in the article, “Google Admits That It Lets Outside Services Share Your Gmail Data.” Google said last year that it would stop scanning users’ emails for keywords to use for targeted ads, but they lied.

When confronted with the deception, Google admitted to the subterfuge and also that they allow third parties to share user information with other third parties.

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See Also:

#GoogleGestapo @ Phi Beta Iota

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Douglas Gabriel and Michael McKibben: #GoogleGestapo Poised to Grab It All — Social Scores, Digital Prison, Election Manipulation and More

Commerce, Corruption, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency

Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman

High points:

‘social score’ based on your profile that can be explored for economic, political and cultural purposes; use of data for warfare; emerging digital prison; Acxiom IPG AMS; election manipulation

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Berto Jongman: New Zealand Enact Digital Strip Search Act — Provide Your Passwords at the Border or Else…

08 Wild Cards, Government, Idiocy, IO Impotency
Berto Jongman

New Zealand’s ‘digital strip searches’: Give border agents your passwords or risk a $5,000 fine

In addition to a fine, those who refuse to submit to a digital search could see their devices seized and subjected to a full examination, meaning “the device or data may be copied, reviewed, or evaluated (including by means of previewing, cloning, or other forensic methods.”

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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Policeware vs. IBM Watson?

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Has Amazon Kicked IBM Watson into Action?

IBM seems to have noticed what Amazon has been doing for the last four or five years. With a bit of a late start, IBM is, it appears, emulating the Bezos buzz saw. Some information about the more pragmatic approach to rule based smart software is revealed in “IBM Launches Pretrained Watson Packs for Industries.”

Just think. Amazon is selling to a large covert government agency its smart software. IBM is working on similar initiatives but it has the farm thing nailed. Can IBM fix John Deere tractors? Will IBM Watson beat Amazon Sagemaker? I am not sure the two are in the same game.

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