Information Operations (IO) – Page 704 – Public Intelligence Blog

Potential to be very dangerous, although they are requesting permission and suggest there are problems associated with the removal of the malware, it represents another government intrusion under the guise of protecting the public…….requires serious consideration and oversight, both of which are lacking in government….

FBI May Hunt Down and Destroy Botnets in Zombie PCs

FBI May Hunt Down and Destroy Botnets in Zombie PCs

By Erika Morphy

TechNewsWorld

04/27/11 3:26 PM PT

The FBI isn't satisfied with having beheaded the Coreflood botnet. Now it wants to go after all the zombie PCs hosting the malware, uninstall it, and thus prevent the monster from springing back to life. Individuals would be notified and their authorization secured before any action would be taken, a complicated and daunting process. Security experts are hailing the ambitious government plan as nothing short of amazing.

Read rest of story….

Phi Beta Iota: Evidently the FBI a) has done some very decent work in this area; b) Cyber-Command is not defending the USA against this threat that originates in China and Russia among other places; and c) there is still no emphasis on creating hardware and software with integrity such as Apple creates–this is a Microsoft “shitty software” problem, and the taxpayer is paying for it.

See Also:

2010: OPINION–America’s Cyber Scam

1994 Sounding the Alarm on Cyber-Security

2011/04/27

Autonomous Internet Maxim: NEA

Autonomous Internet

NEA, in the context of the Internet and computing, is an acronym which stands for the maxim:

No one owns it.

Everyone can use it.

Anyone can improve it.

The maxim originated with the authors Doc Searls and David Weinberger in an essay of 2003 entitled World of Ends. What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else

Source

See Also:

World of Ends. What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else Doc Searls and David Weinberger – 3 October 2003
Ten Ideas about Ideas Linux Journal Doc Searls blog on Sat, 2006-11-04

2011/04/262011/04/26

An API for Sharing & MindMap for Next Net

Advanced Cyber/IO, Citizen-Centered, ICT-IT, Innovation

here's a use case for interoperability ;)

Three years ago, when our team at Kassi began sketching our idea of an online service for sharing goods and skills, we were not aware that others were doing the same thing. Since then, we have found that the idea is definitely not new. This catalogue alone lists more than a hundred services that allow people to lend, borrow, swap and recycle goods, and it probably includes only a fraction of them all.

Definition: Free Network

Autonomous Internet, Definitions

ideas to think about, make better, hack on, from venessa miemis:

– access to a global communication infrastructure should be a human right

– i should be able to exchange value directly with a peer without third party involvement

– i should have control over the data that i generate

– it is my right to know how third parties are using my personal data

– i should have the capacity to allow or deny access to aspects of my data

FreeNet Source

Tip of the Hat to Isaac Wilder at Google Group Next Net.

2011/04/262011/04/26

Simultaneous Policy: Two Interviews

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Augmented Reality, Collective Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Earth Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), Key Players, Methods & Process, Open Government, Policies, Real Time, Reform, Serious Games, Strategy, Threats, Tools

1. Simpol – John Bunzl – Interview Part One (April 15, 2009)

See Simpol's Founder, John Bunzl, explain Simpol on Youtube, Part 1. (about 5 minutes)

2. Simpol – John Bunzl – Interview Part Two (April 15, 2009)

See Simpol's Founder, John Bunzl, explain Simpol on Youtube, Part 2. (about 5 minutes)

2011/04/262011/04/26

De-Programming the “American Hologram”

07 Other Atrocities, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), IO Impotency, Policies, Reform

It is not about politics. It is about the “American Hologram”, as Joe Bageant calls it:

“All Americans, regardless of caste, live in a culture woven of self-referential illusions. Like a holographic simulation, each part refers exclusively back to the whole, and the whole refers exclusively back to the parts. All else is excluded by this simulated reality.”

The Great American Media Mind Warp: A Feast of Bullshit and Spectacle

Of course Joe, who died recently, is pretty far out there. But his notion of the Hologram, which has become almost sacred in some parts of our culture, is pretty accurate. Compare and contrast, for example, main stream media with Rachel Maddow. She reports, I am told, on the negative receptions GOP members get at their so called town hall meetings. But the MSM? Or look at Wikileaks on Gitmo vs the MSM on Gitmo. Or look at the failure of the MSM to link the decline of the dollar to the price of gasoline.

So what we need is a counter-narrative that strips the current hologram of its power to delude and anesthetize. IE, until we see through the hologram and realize it is naked, as it were, we are not going to get much meaningful change. Change is not what the powers that be want, which of course is why they promote consumption, celebrity and entertainment over all. A nation of zombies, who don't even know they are being duped, is what they want.

This is not rocket science and is well known, but so far no one has been able to articulate a sufficiently compelling alternative narrative.

See Also:

Massimo Pigliucci on Ignorance Today

AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? Ignorance and courage in the age of Lady Gaga

Journal: USA Theater of Politics Adds a Side Show

Review: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

2008 ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig

2011/04/252011/04/25

Reference (2003): Augmented Social Network

Advanced Cyber/IO, Augmented Reality, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), IO Mapping, Methods & Process, Policies, Reform, Serious Games, Standards, Threats, White Papers

NEW: Archived & Expanded at P2P Foundation/ASN

this paper covers a lot of the ground we've been discussing here [at Google Group Next Net] about what kind of intentions a ‘next net' would facilitate. worth a read.

Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next-General Internet by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, Steven Foster

as presented at the Planetwork conference on “Networking a Sustainable Future” in San Francisco on June 6, 2003

as published First Monday, Volume 8, Number 8 – 4 August 2003

Phi Beta Iota: The current approaches to “identity” are vestiges of the industrial-era commoditization of humans and the fragmentation of the commons. In the 1990's the Hackers Conference (Silicon Valley) discussed trust and identity authentication in combination with anonymnity (or better, invisibility).

Category: Information Operations (IO)

FBI Wages Its Own Cyberwar on Zombie PCs

Autonomous Internet Maxim: NEA

An API for Sharing & MindMap for Next Net

Definition: Free Network

Simultaneous Policy: Two Interviews

De-Programming the “American Hologram”

Reference (2003): Augmented Social Network