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UPDATE 5: Note from Winn with Link to Pilot Brief on Avionics Insecurity

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I am saying something very simple: I don't know, and I don't know anyone else who really does know, for absolutely sure, how secure the various networks and systems on airplanes are. I do know that when an IT person says they are secure because they use a firewall, I am skeptical. I am not a fan of security by obscurity, often favoring open source reporting by an independent security review on a periodic basis. I also know that physically isolated networks are sure a whole lot more secure than two network segments that are electronically isolated. Lastly, I know, for absolutely sure, I would be a boatload more comfortable really knowing that airplanes, of all things, maintain the highest level of security possible.

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2015/05/172015/05/17

Chuck Spinney: Trevor Timm on Media, Hersh, & Bin Laden PLUS Phi Beta Iota: Did Patsy — and SEALS — Die to Re-Elect Obama?

Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Media

Madison's Farce In Action: The media’s disgraceful reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden Report

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In an ideal world, Hersh’s report would trigger more investigative journalism. Yet despite its obvious importance, as Trevor Timm explains below in the Columbia Journalism Review, the mainstream media’s reaction to the Hersh report has not been to dig deeper, but to shoot the messenger.

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2015/05/172015/05/17

Berto Jongman: 50% Medical Literature False

IO Impotency

Editor In Chief Of World’s Best Known Medical Journal: Half Of All The Literature Is False

Dr. Horton recently published a statement declaring that a lot of published research is in fact unreliable at best, if not completely false.

“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.” (source)

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2015/05/172015/05/17

Stephen E. Arnold: Image Search Fact-Checking

IO Impotency

Image Search: Getting Better and Better [Not Really]

Image search means having software which can figure out from a digital photo that a cow is a cow. In more complex photos, the software identifies what it can. I recall one demonstration which recognized me as a 20 year old criminal. Close but no cigar.

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2015/05/152015/05/14

Stephen E. Arnold: Eight Myths About Big Data — With Comment

IO Impotency

In The Globe and Mail

Unearthing big myths about big data

Myth 01: Big data is big
Myth 02: Big data needs to be applied right away
Myth 03: The more granular the data, the better

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2015/05/102015/05/10

Stephen E. Arnold: Collaborative Economy Lacks Information Access Solutions — Will Dark Web Dark Innovation Eclipse Payment Industry & “Open” Governments?

Advanced Cyber/IO

Search Left Out of the Collaborative Economy Honeycomb

… I saw a post which pointed me to the Chief Digital Officer Summit and that pointed me to this page with the amazing honeycomb shown below. The title is “Collaborative Economy Honeycomb 2: Watch It Grow” … But what caused me to perk up and pay attention was one factoid:There were zero search, content processing, or next generation information access companies in the list.

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2015/05/092015/05/09

Robin Good: Tool to Import, Filter, Visualize, & Publish Any Spreadsheet Online – Silk

IO Tools

Import, Filter, Visualise And Publish Any Spreadsheet Online: Silk

Silk is a web tool to publish online spreadsheet-based data on a specific topic. The service, which just released a new version of its offering, allows to easily convert any existing data-set into professional-looking data displays, charts, grids, and lists that can be embedded on any site and which can be viewed in multiple ways. The value of Silk is specifically in making it easy and immediate for anyone to elegantly display and publish data sets in one of several alternative formats which include:

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