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Berto Jongman: Enemies of the Internet

Government, IO Impotency
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

A Short Guide to the Internet’s Biggest Enemies

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual “Enemies of the Internet” index this week—a ranking first launched in 2006 intended to track countries that repress online speech, intimidate and arrest bloggers, and conduct surveillance of their citizens.  Some countries have been mainstays on the annual index, while others have been able to work their way off the list.  Two countries particularly deserving of praise in this area are Tunisia and Myanmar (Burma), both of which have stopped censoring the Internet in recent years and are headed in the right direction toward Internet freedom.

In the former category are some of the world’s worst offenders: Cuba, North Korea, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Belarus, Bahrain, Turkmenistan, Syria.  Nearly every one of these countries has amped up their online repression in recent years, from implementing sophisticated surveillance (Syria) to utilizing targeted surveillance tools (Vietnam) to increasing crackdowns on online speech (Saudi Arabia).  These are countries where, despite advocacy efforts by local and international groups, no progress has been made.

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Owl: Malaysian Airlines Flight Hijacked via AWACS? Chinese Engineers Renditioned? Update 4 Diego Garcia Redux, Boeing Cyber Hijack

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military
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UPDATE 16 Mar 14: Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Redirected to Diego Garcia?

and also

Is missing Malaysian jet the world’s first CYBER HIJACK? Chilling new theory claims hackers could use a mobile phone to take over the controls

UPDATE 15 Mar 14: Malaysia Airline MH370: 9/11-style terror allegations resurface in case of lost plane

UPDATE 14 Mar 14:  CONFIRMED: Flight 370 Cyberjacked to secret base in Indian ocean – American or Chinese?

The story gets weirder and weirder as one looks at it. Goes beyond what is noted below in talking extensively about an AWACs jet hijack of 370, involvement of Israel and other things. Don't have the time to untangle this all, but the picture is becoming less cloudy and coming back full-circle in its reference to Israel and Iran in this AWACs-hijack context, and Israeli involvement was what I pointed out in my very first post on this subject.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/03/case-closed-hijacked-by-awacs-2916516.html

From http://www.jimstonefreelance.com [allegedly shut down]

Malaysian airlines flight 377 has been provably hijacked by an AWACS plane. This is outlined in the updates below.

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Owl: Was a Harry Potter-Like Electronic “Cloak of Invisibility” Used on Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 by Freescale Semiconductor Contractors?

Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Military
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Was a Harry Potter-Like Electronic “Cloak of Invisibility” Used on Flight 370 by Freescale Semiconductor Contractors?

This article comprehensively brings together virtually all the reported facts about Flight 370 of Malaysian Airlines and well worth reading entirely. However, the most interesting information from it, not shared in other sources, to my knowledge, except where they got it from, and I have been looking hard, is information on the very special background of 20 passengers on flight 370. Here's the extract on it:
“In a more radical theory, the possibility of electronic warfare has also been raised following confirmation that there were at least 20 passengers onboard from Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor. Each of these passengers had specialist knowledge of electronic technology for defence applications. This could include ‘cloaking’ technology that uses a hexagonal array of glasslike panels to bend light around an object, such as plane, according to a report in Beforeitsnews.com. Other techniques may have been used to jam signals, allowing the plane to vanish from radar detection without its security systems being activated.

It is conceivable that the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 plane is “cloaked,” hiding with hi-tech electronic warfare weaponry that exists and is used,’ Beforeitsnews.com wrote. ‘In fact, this type of technology is precisely the expertise of Freescale that has 20 employees on board the missing flight.’ ‘These were people with a lot of experience and technical background and they were very important people,’ Mr Mitch Haws, Global communications officer for the tech company, said. The company recently launched a major initiative dedicated to serving radio frequency power needs of U.S. aerospace and defence sector.”

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Howard Rheingold: Streamtools – a Graphical Tool for Working with Streams of Data

IO Tools
Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold

Introducing Streamtools: A Graphical Tool for Working with Streams of Data

New and open source from the New York Times R&D Lab

We see a moment coming when the collection of endless streams of data is commonplace. As this transition accelerates it is becoming increasingly apparent that our existing toolset for dealing with streams of data is lacking. Over the last 20 years we have invested heavily in tools that deal with tabulated data, from Excel, MySQL, and MATLAB to Hadoop, R, and Python+Numpy. These tools, when faced with a stream of never-ending data, fall short and diminish our creative potential.

In response to this shortfall we have created streamtools—a new, open source project by the New York Times R&D Lab which provides a general purpose, graphical tool for dealing with streams of data. It offers a vocabulary of operations that can be connected together to create live data processing systems without the need for programming or complicated infrastructure. These systems are assembled using a visual interface that affords both immediate understanding and live manipulation of the system.

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Berto Jongman: Tim Berners-Lee Calls for Online Magna Carta – a Global Constitution and Universal Bill of Digital Rights

Advanced Cyber/IO
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Web Inventor's Bold Call: Time for ‘Online Magna Carta'

Tim Berners-Lee issues call for “a global constitution – a bill of rights” to defend digital rights

– Andrea Germanos, staff writer
TIm Berners-Lee

As the World Wide Web celebrates its 25th anniversary Wednesday, Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the system, is calling for an online ‘Magna Carta' to protect users in the face of growing surveillance and attacks on an open internet.

Twenty-five years on, Berners-Lee said, “we need to make sure we establish the principles that the Web's been based on — principles of openness, principles of privacy, principles of not being censored.”

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Owl: Did an Electro-Magnetic Pulse Bomb Take Down the Malaysian Airlines Flight to China?

IO Deeds of War
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Did a Non-Nuclear Electro Magnetic Pulse Weapon Take Down Flight 370?

This article poses the theory that Flight 370 was taken down by a non-nuclear portable EMP device to work as a dry run for more future and large coordinated attacks against cities. This type of attack in essence fries the electronics of jets and virtually all unprotected electronics. Such a device would not have been detected by monitoring systems already in place to detect nuclear EMP events:

“The other possibility is one that is often not discussed, yet has emerged as a highly effective military system in recent years. This involves the use of a non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapon. Weapons designers specializing in high-energy physics can now create electromagnetic pulses without going into outer space. One approach involves harnessing the force of a conventional explosion. Others are simply just modifications of radar, which bounces pulses of energy off aircraft in flight, vehicles on the ground, and other objects. Crank up the power and you have an EMP weapon, ready to point at the computers of your favorite enemy. This knowledge has set off a new arms race. Whether fitted into cruise missiles or parked at the side of the road in a van, non-nuclear EMP weapons have the potential to devastate the electronic systems of areas as large as a city or as small as a selected building, all without being seen, heard, or felt by a single soul. It is a dream come true for any and all terrorists.

Sound far-fetched? It did not in 1993 to the owners of automobiles parked about 300 meters from a U.S. Defense Contractor’s EMP generator test site at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Their alternators and electronic engine controls were accidentally fried by a pulse during classified field trials.”

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