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2014/05/302014/05/30

Mongoose: Snowden on US IC Security – Non-Existent – NSA Has No Idea What I Took and Zero Control Over Its Files

NBC News Exclusive with Brian Williams: Inside the Mind of Edward Snowden

In a wide-ranging and revealing interview, Brian Williams talks with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the global impact and debate sparked by his revelations.

EXTRACT:

“I will say the 1.7 million documents figure that the intelligence community has been bandying—about—the director of N.S.A. himself, Keith Alexander said just a week ago in the Australian Financial Times, or Australian Financial Review I believe—that they have no idea what documents were taken at all. Their auditing was so poor, so negligent, that any private contractor, not even — an employee of the government, could walk into the N.S.A. building, take whatever they wanted, and walk out with it and they would never know. Now, I think that’s a problem. And I think that’s something that needs to be resolved, and people need to be held to account for, has it happened before? Could it happen again?”

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2014/05/292014/05/28

Yoda: Mary Meeker’s Internet Report 2014 — Explosion in Hand-Helds and Data — Less Than 1% of Data Analyzed

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Tools good, analysis not.

Mary Meeker’s 2014 internet trends report: all the slides plus highlights

PDF (164 Pages): Internet Trends Report 2014 (Mary Meeker)

Five slides below the fold.

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2014/05/292014/05/29

CRS Reference: Cybersecurity Authoritative Reports and Resources by Topic

Congressional Research Service

Cybersecurity: Authoritative Reports and Resources, by Topic

Rita Tehan, Information Research Specialist

Congressional Research Service, May 22, 2014

This report provides references to analytical reports on cybersecurity from CRS, other government agencies, trade associations, and interest groups. The reports and related websites are grouped under the following cybersecurity topics:

• policy overview
• National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)
• cloud computing and FedRAMP
• critical infrastructure
• cybercrime, data breaches, and data security
• national security, cyber espionage, and cyberwar (including Stuxnet)
• international efforts
• education/training/workforce
• research and development (R&D)

In addition, the report lists selected cybersecurity-related websites for congressional and
government agencies, news, international organizations, and organizations or institutions.

PDF (101 Pages): CRS Cybersecurity Resources 20140522

See Also:

Congressional Research Service — Index 28 MAY 2014 – Cyber & Internet Including FOI, Privacy, NSA, Etcetera

PDF (24 Pages): Self-Development for Cyber Warriors (SWJ ACC 2011)

2014/05/292014/05/28

Berto Jongman: Big Data – 20 Tutorials

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20 short tutorials all data scientists should read (and practice)

Vincent Granville

DataScienceCentral, 15 February 2014

We are now at 20, up from 17. I hope I find the time to write a one-page survival guide for UNIX, Python and Perl. Here's one for R. The links to core data science concepts are below – I need to add links to web crawling, attribution modeling and API design. Relevancy engines are discussed in some of the tutorials listed below. And that will complete my 10-page cheat sheet for data science.

Here's the list:

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2014/05/282014/05/28

Yoda: Wikipedia Generally Wrong on Medical Issues – 9 out of 10 Health Entries in Error

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Again, we say.

Using Wikipedia To Look Up Your Illness Is A Bad Idea, Scientists Confirm

Researching symptoms and health concerns on Wikipedia will lead you to false information most of the time, scientists in the U.S. say.

Scientists compared health information from the online encyclopedia with peer-reviewed medical research. They concluded that 90 percent of the site's health entries they studied contained false information on diseases including diabetes, lung cancer, heart disease and depression, the BBC reported.

Researchers said their findings, recently published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, should encourage people to seek professional medical help instead of relying on the Internet.

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2014/05/282014/05/28

Berto Jongman: Threat Intelligence Is Like Teen-Age Sex

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Why Threat Intelligence Is Like Teenage Sex

Nick Selby

DarkReading, 7 May 2014

Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, and most of the few people who are actually doing it aren't doing it all that well.

Whatever the official theme of the 2014 RSA Conference was, any one attendee will tell you the unofficial theme — the message on every banner in the place, it seemed — was “Threat Intelligence.” But threat intelligence, as it was put to me by Eric Olson of Cyveillance, is a lot like teenage sex: Everyone is talking about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, and most of the few people who are actually doing it aren't doing it all that well.

There are lots of fashionable things to say about intelligence, and everyone gets all… cool when they discuss it, as if they have some dark, national secret that you don't have. Balderdash!

Let's cut through the mystery in two important ways:

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2014/05/272014/05/27

Howard Rheingold: Hacking RSS to Reduce Information Overload with Filtering Tools

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Since Google ditched Google Reader, RSS has receded from many people's awareness. Yet RSS and versatile RSS readers such as NetVibes continue to exist, and if you want to learn information skills to support attention skills, you can do no better than Dawn Foster, who can tell you simply and step-by-step how to arrange for the information you want to come to you, and to filter out the information you don't want.

How to Hack RSS to Reduce Information Overload

Dawn Foster

GIGAOM, 25 March 2011

Summary: The key to cutting information overload is to more efficiently find the data that you want among the data that you don’t care about. I wanted to share some of the techniques that I use to hack and filter my RSS feed to prioritize relevant information.

Last week, I held a session at SXSW Interactive titled Hacking RSS: Filtering & Processing Obscene Amounts of Information, where I talked about creative ways to use RSS to manage information overload without using any programming skills.

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