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2016/03/302016/03/28

Stephen E. Arnold: Dark Web Gets Reputable — ProPublica Shifts to DarkWeb to Avoid Censorship and Monitoring

Reputable News Site Now on the Dark Web

Does the presence of a major news site lend an air of legitimacy to the Dark Web? Wired announces, “ProPublica Launches the Dark Web’s First Major News Site.” Reporter Andy Greenberg tells us that ProPublica recently introduced a version of their site running on the Tor network. To understand why anyone would need such a high level of privacy just to read the news, imagine living under a censorship-happy government; ProPublica was inspired to launch the site while working on a report about Chinese online censorship. Why not just navigate to ProPublica’s site through Tor? Greenberg explains the danger of malicious exit nodes:

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2016/03/262016/03/24

Berto Jongman: Björn Fägersten on European Intelligence Options for the Future

For EU Eyes Only? Intelligence and European Security

EXTRACT

For starters, the EU’s intelligence system – and its future development – should not be bench-marked against a national intelligence system. The EU is a non-typical intelligence actor which has needs of its own and supports member states’ efforts in the security realm. In this it differs quite substantially from national intelligence systems. For example, the need for genuinely common analysis far outweighs the need for sharing highly sensitive information in the context of EU foreign policy. A common information basis allows for collective policymaking or, at least, increases the political price of resisting it.

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2016/03/252016/03/23

John Pilger: Obama Has Set Stage for World War with China and Russia (and Iran)

02 China, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, IO Deeds of War

A World War has Begun: Break the Silence

How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile. In 2009, President Obama stood before an adoring crowd in the centre of Prague, in the heart of Europe. He pledged himself to make “the world free from nuclear weapons”. People cheered and some cried. A torrent of platitudes flowed from the media. Obama was subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was all fake. He was lying.

2016/03/252016/03/23

Stephen E. Arnold: Survey of the Cloud — Amazon Winning with Fencing?

Advanced Cyber/IO

Amazon Web Services: Crushing the Competition?

I read “Attack! Run. WTF? A Decade of Enterprise Class Fear and Uncertainty with AWS.” I am not sure if Amazon’s Web Services’ business is being praised or criticized. Nevertheless, the write up has some interesting factoids. I highlighted these statements: read full post

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2016/03/222016/03/22

Stephen E. Arnold: Interview in Singularity Weblog with Nikola Danaylov

IO Impotency

Interview with Stephen E Arnold, Reveals Insights about Content Processing

Nikola Danaylov of the Singularity Weblog interviewed technology and financial analyst Stephen E. Arnold on the latest episode of his podcast, Singularity 1 on 1. The interview, Stephen E. Arnold on Search Engines and Intelligence Gathering, offers thought-provoking ideas on important topics related to sectors — such as intelligence, enterprise search, and financial — which use indexing and content processing methods Arnold has worked with for over 50 years.

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2016/03/192016/03/19

2016 Robert Steele: OMB Source Code Comment – Do the Right Thing (An Open Source (Technologies) Agency)

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency

OMB Source Code Comment: Do the Right Thing – An Open Source (Technologies) Agency

As submitted in response to OMB's Request for Comment (RFC).

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2016/03/192016/03/21

Sepp Hasslberger: MaidSafe – the New Internet

Advanced Cyber/IO

MaidSafe – Their aim is to make the internet a more secure place and to store data permanently on users' computers…

Meet the men who have rewritten the internet

The autonomous network they created – called SAFE – has just, after 10 years development, been released as a minimum viable product consisting of a launcher, a test application and an API. The firm promises that applications will follow over the coming months.

SAFE will operate on a cryptocurrency called Safecoin. It is not based on a blockchain like Bitcoin. Instead “farmers” (a similar concept to Bitcoin's miners) earn Safecoin every time a chunk of encrypted data hosted randomly on their machine is retrieved. The more reliable a node proves itself the more Safecoin it will earn. Explore.

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