Category: Information Operations (IO)

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Stephen E. Arnold: Germany Passes Law — All Digital Data Open to Spies and Cops Without Anyone’s “Knowledge”

Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement
Stephen E. Arnold

Germany Is Getting Serious about Content

If accurate, Germany is moving ahead of the Five Eyes’ group in terms of access to online data. “New German Law Would Force ISPs to Allow Secret Service to Install Trojans on User Devices” reports:

A new law being proposed in Germany would see all 19 federal state intelligence agencies in Germany granted the power to spy on German citizens through the use of Trojans. The new law would force internet service providers (ISPs) to install government hardware at their data centers which would reroute data to law enforcement, and then on to its intended destination so the target is blissfully unaware that their communications and even software updates are being proxied.

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Stephen E. Arnold: “Internet” Satellites Also Surveillance Satellites — one photo a day of every spot on the earth . . .

Advanced Cyber/IO
Stephen E. Arnold

Do Those Commercial Satellites Just Provide Internet? Maybe Not

Much has changed since the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, not the least of which is the state of observation technology. We learn from Bloomberg that “Satellites Are Capturing the Protests, and Just About Everything Else on Earth.”

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Gary North: Was the American Revolution a Mistake or Based on Lies? Robert Steele: Or A Freemason Coup?

11 Society, History, IO Deeds of War

Was the American Revolution a Mistake?

The Colonists had a sweet deal in 1775. Great Britain was the second-freest nation on Earth. Switzerland was probably the most free nation, but I would be hard-pressed to identify any other nation in 1775 that was ahead of Great Britain. And in Great Britain’s Empire, the Colonists were by far the freest.

I will say it, loud and clear: The freest society on Earth in 1775 was British North America, with the obvious exception of the slave system. Anyone who was not a slave had incomparable freedom.

The proponents of independence invoked British tyranny in North America. But there was no British tyranny in North America.

Continue reading “Gary North: Was the American Revolution a Mistake or Based on Lies? Robert Steele: Or A Freemason Coup?”

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Stephen E. Arnold: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning Spectacularly Stupid? Or Criminally Mis-Directed?

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Oh, Oh, Somebody Has Blown the Whistle on the Machine Learning Fouls

Wonder why smart software is often and quite spectacularly stupid? You can get a partial answer in “On Moving from Statistics to Machine Learning, the Final Stage of Grief.” There’s some mathiness in the write up. However, the author who tries to stand up to heteroskedastic errors, offers some useful explanations and good descriptions of the short cuts some of the zippy machine learning systems take.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Cost Control Insights

Advanced Cyber/IO
Stephen E. Arnold

Amazon Cost Control Insights

Amazon’s AWS is a fascinating business case. On one hand, AWS reduces some of the hurdles to modern solution development. On the other hand, it is easy — even for an experienced Certified AWS expert — to forget what’s running, whether a particular service is unnecessary, or what processes are tucked into the corner of Jeff Bezos’ profit making machine. “Our AWS Bill is ~ 2% of revenue. Here’s How We Did It” provides a run down of the money gobblers and provides some helpful guidance. There are screenshots in the Gulf racing colors of orange and blue. There are explanations. Plus, there are useful insights; for example: