The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
China’s New Cybersecurity Program: NO Place to Hide
The Chinese government has been working for several years on a comprehensive Internet security/surveillance program. This program is based on the Cybersecurity Law adopted on 2016. The plan is vast and includes a number of subsidiary laws and regulations. On December 1, 2018, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security announced it will finally roll-out the full plan.
“Smart Communities” Turn People’s Homes into Prisons
Residents are deprived of privacy and freedom, as the state watches their every move using big data, facial recognition, and invasive surveillance.
The Roots of Common Machine Learning Errors
It is a big problem when faulty data analysis underpins big decisions or public opinion, and it is happening more often in the age of big data. Data Science Central outlines several “Common Errors in Machine Learning Due to Poor Statistics Knowledge.” Easy to make mistakes? Yep. Easy to manipulate outputs? Yep. We believe the obvious fix is to make math point and click—let developers decide for a clueless person.
Blogger Vincent Granville describes what he sees as the biggest problem:
Phi Beta Iota editor created above title. Below is original title and an extract.
Talking Down: A Specialty of High-Tech?
What problems?
First, Microsoft has warned 800 million users to install a specific patch in order to avoid terminating with extreme prejudice one’s computer. You can get ore information from the capitalist tool here. Will I trust Microsoft after it killed my computer? Nope.
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Is It Time to Terminate Microsoft?”
Meet America’s newest military giant: Amazon
The Pentagon’s controversial $10bn JEDI cloud computing deal is one of the most lucrative defense contracts ever. Amazon’s in pole position to win—and its move into the military has been a long time coming.
Stephen E. Arnold, a specialist in intelligence and law enforcement software, has used a series of online videos to trace the evolution of Amazon from 2007, when it had “effectively zero” presence in government IT, to today, when it appears set to dominate. “Amazon wants to neutralize and then displace the traditional Department of Defense vendors and become the 21st-century IBM for the US government,” he says.
Unusual Source, Useful Information
I want to give a thumbs up to Cool Smart Phone and its write up “Lies Everywhere. The Truth Is Dead.” The article does a very good job of explaining the basic mechanism for planting misinformation in online channels. Plus the article contains a number of examples.
DarkCyber noted this statement in the write up:
Donald Trump: “We Ought To Start Our Own Network And Put Our Own News Out There”
Frustrated with news coverage, Trump suggests launching own network
Phi Beta Iota: Two years after Robert Steele first suggested this idea at
http://tinyurl.com/TrumpTriumph
Steele's new comments below.
Continue reading “Donald Trump: Thinking About My Own Network!”
