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Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 63, June 2013

IO Newsletter Free Software, Software
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman

Free Software Supporter

Issue 63, June 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Free Software Foundation statement on PRISM revelations
  • A second FSF-certified device from ThinkPenguin: long-range USB Wifi adapter with Atheros chip
  • April's English translation team is recruiting volunteers
  • MediaGoblin 0.4.0: Hall of the Archivist
  • Announcing the newest fully free GNU/Linux distribution: LibreWRT
  • FSF polo shirts have arrived at the shop!
  • As Microsoft repeal some Xbox restrictions, more apply to other products
  • Fight PRISM through the Free Software Directory
  • LibrePlanet featured resource: Group:PRISM
  • GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 22 new GNU releases!
  • GNU Toolchain Update
  • Richard Stallman's speaking schedule
  • Other FSF and free software events
  • Thank GNUs!
  • Take action with the FSF!

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Owl: Syrian Rebels Behead Two Christians, One a Priest

08 Wild Cards, IO Deeds of War
Who? Who?
Who? Who?

Obama is Sending Arms to These Utterly Vicious Thugs and Murderers: Your Tax Dollars at Work

“Two Christians, one of them a priest, have been beheaded by militants because they were suspected of cooperating with the Syrian military, according to an Al-Alam report. A video uploaded to the internet yesterday shows two men with their hands bound, surrounded by dozens of people, many of them armed and cheering in celebration. The two are brutally executed – beheaded with a small combat knife. Echoing previous beheading recorded by insurgents, the head is held up to the cheers of onlookers and then placed on the body.”

I forced myself to watch the video of this atrocity done by these cruel bastards. In the second instance, the killer had to be handed a second knife to finish the job. These idiots appear unable to keep the knives sharp, much prolonging the pain and misery of their victims.

Article and Link to Video of Beheadings – CAUTION – Very Disturbing Imagery:

Syrians Behead two Christians

 

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Information Operations (IO) Newsletter vol 13, no 08

IO Newsletter

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Articles in this issue:

1.      Clearing the Air on Cyber, Electronic Warfare
2.      American Gets Targeted by Digital Spy Tool Sold to Foreign Governments
3.      US Army Maps Future of the Electronic Battlefield
4.      Silent War
5.      US Disrupts Al-Qaeda's Online Magazine
6.      Marines Focused At the Tactical Edge of Cyber, Says Commander
7.      With Troops and Techies, US Prepares For Cyber Warfare
8.      Inside the NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group
9.      Internet Gurus Fear Iranian Assassins
10.     NSA's Keith Alexander Seeks Cyber Shield For Companies
11.     Killing with Kindness: How Foreign Aid Backfires
12.     Cyber Careers New Center, School to Bring Signals, Cyber, EW Together
13.     “Electronic Warfare is Becoming More Important and More Complex”
14.     Tweeting for the Caliphate: Twitter as the New Frontier for Jihadist Propaganda
15.     Facebook Being Used To Recruit Indonesians For Terrorist Attacks
16.     With Social Media, Middle Classes in Brazil, Turkey Grow Stronger, Angrier
17.     Big Pic: How Turkish Protesters Use Google Maps To Track Police

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SchwartzReport: Costs of (Allegedly) Hunting Terrorists versus (Alleged) Benefits of a Police State

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War

schwartz reportIf you read my essay, A Sense of Proportion. (See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephan-a-schwartz/surveillance-national-security_b_3436083.html) you know that I think this is the important unasked question. The answer though, as I have already published on this site, is that the terrorism argument is a cover for a deeper purpose, controlling society in the face of breakdown resulting from climate chan! ge. Here is a take from Germany, and you can see that other countries take considerable umbrage at the U.S.'s hubris. And have begun, as this report spells-out, to ask the right question.

‘Do Costs of Hunting Terrorists Exceed Benefits?'
Der Spiegel (Germany)

Phi Beta Iota:

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See Also:

2013 Public Governance in the 21st Century: New Rules, Hybrid Forms, One Constant – The Public [Work in Progress]

2012 PREPRINT Foreword to NATO Book on Public Intelligence for Public Health

2010 The Ultimate Hack Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth (Chapter for Counter-Terrorism Book Out of Denmark)

2010: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Updated

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Rickard Falgvinge: USA / NSA Raiding Emails of European Parliament

Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military

Rickard Falkvinge
Rickard Falkvinge

The United States Seized Confidential Mail Records Of European Parliament

Smári McCarthy

Privacy – Christian Engström:  I can’t say I’m surprised – but we’ve got the United States and its security bureaucrats digging through our e-mail in the European Parliament. Mashable reveals that the United States has demanded information from Google about the communications of two Wikileaks activists. One of them is the Icelander Smári McCarthy (pictured).

These events catch our interest here in Brussels, here at the Pirate Party office in the European Parliament. We know Smári, and we have contacted him as a consultant to produce a report on Iceland as an “information paradise” and a conceivable centre for cloud computing (www.islandsofresilience.eu).

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Berto Jongman: How geospatial analytics is helping hunt the LRA and al-Shabaab

Advanced Cyber/IO
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

How geospatial analytics is helping hunt the LRA and al-Shabaab

Liat Clark

Wired UK, 24 June 2013

In May 2012 Caesar Acellam, a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and military strategist for the extremist group's leader Joseph Kony, was captured by the Ugandan army. The act appeared to be a coup for local forces that had for nearly three decades — along with multiple regional governments and the 100 US special forces soldiers sent in 2012 — failed to thwart the militant group's leader, a man wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity including the abduction of tens of thousands of children.

The capture of one of his top-ranking commanders was made possible, in part, because local forces suddenly knew where to look. Kony's men could not hide from a constellation of five ever-watchful satellites put into orbit by  satellite imagery and geospatial analytics firm  DigitalGlobe.

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Jean Lievins: Laying the Foundation for the Internet of Things

Advanced Cyber/IO
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Laying the Foundation for the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is coming, but so far it's a fragmented mess. In order for it to work the way it's envisioned, some coopetition may be in order. The business models that reward innovation, that are open, and that are fully interoperable at all levels are the ones that will be successful. The Internet of Things will come into being only when the interoperability challenges are conquered.

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