The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phrase of the Day: Collateral Damage
The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal has rightly been scrutinized by everyone from individual users to entire government bodies. As could be expected when the players are this large, what people are finding links together unlikely suspects and victims in this data breach. One such surprise popped up this week when we read a Gizmodo report, “Facebook ‘Looking Into’ Palantir’s Access to User Data.”
IDEN A is not John McAfee but of equivalent substantive stature. This is the pre-Amazon calculation. The future of block chain will be known as BA and AA — before and after Amazon. It is not clear if PayPal, among others, sees the threat as well as the possibility of burying Amazon.
CYBER BLACK SWAN OVERVIEW
Memo and Excel file, below the fold.
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An Alert Reader offers the following thoughts.
Sitting at my desk all day doing interpreting, I watched all the videos of ITNJ and I learned a lot. Thanks to whoever posted them. Phenomenal work and very impressive members and witnesses.
I hit an enormous psychological roadblock on this following one, about organ transplants in China, for the many following reasons:
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Forbes Does a Semi Rah Rah for Amazon Rekognition
…based on conversations with those in my lectures, two categories of comments and questions capture the reaction to the US government documents I reviewed.
First, Europeans do not think about Amazon as anything other than a vendor of products and a service which allows relatively low cost backend services like storage.
Second, the idea that a generalist online eCommerce site and a consumerized cloud service could provide industrial strength tools to investigators, security, and intelligence professionals was a idea not previously considered.
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The End of Transparency – and Democracy
Amy Baker Benjamin
William & Mary Policy Review, 8.2, 2017
Hating Russia Is a Full-Time Job.“Who is Driving the Hostility towards Russia?”
Neocons resurrect tribal memories to fan the flames
Alarms about the alleged Russian threat only re-emerged in the neocon dominated media and think tanks when old fashioned nationalist Vladimir Putin took office and made it a principal goal of his government to turn off the money tap.
For those unfamiliar with the practice of “doxxing,” Stuff has shared a clear introduction on the topic peppered with links to more information—“What is Doxxing, and Why Is It So Scary?” Reporter Jasmine McNealy describes the technique of discovering personal information available online and using it against one’s target. She also emphasizes how dangerous these attacks can be. McNealy writes:
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