Articles in this issue:
1. The Fanciful World of Cyber Warfare
2. Electronic Warfare: The Cat-And-Mouse Game Continues
3. Mysterious Actions of Chinese Satellites Have Experts Guessing
4. Want to See China's Latest Top-Secret Military Site? Just Google It
5. Redhack Announces Election Software as Its Next Target
6. Can the U.S. and China Get Along in Outer Space?
7. Meet Hidden Lynx: The Most Elite Hacker Crew You've Never Heard Of
8. Hacking U.S. Secrets, China Pushes for Drones
9. Metadata May Not Catch Many Terrorists, but It's Great at Busting Journalists' Sources
10. Fooled by Certainty
11. One of the Few: The Cultural Support Team
12. Voice of Russia Is a Great Contributor to Freedom Of Expression – British MP
13. US and Turkey to Create Fund to Stem Extremism
Note: Phi Beta Iota is fed up with Google's mismanagement of YouTube. Effective immediately we are radically reducing posted links to YouTube. John Maguire's stuff will be a signal exception.
“Device fingerprinting, also known as browser fingerprinting, is the practice of collecting properties of PCs, smartphones, and tablets to identify and track users. For the vast majority of browsers, the combination of these properties is unique, and thus functions as a “fingerprint” that can be used to track users without relying on cookies. Researchers have discovered that 145 of the Internet’s 10,000 top Web sites use device fingerprinting to track users without their knowledge or consent. A new study by KU Leuven-iMinds researchers has uncovered that 145 of the Internet’s 10,000 top Web sites track users without their knowledge or consent. The Web sites use hidden scripts to extract a device fingerprint from users’ browsers. Device fingerprinting circumvents legal restrictions imposed on the use of cookies and ignores the Do Not Track HTTP header. The findings suggest that secret tracking is more widespread than previously thought… To detect Web sites using device fingerprinting technologies, the researchers developed a tool called FPDetective. The tool crawls and analyses Web sites for suspicious scripts. This tool will be freely available at FPDetective Web site for other researchers to use and build upon.”
WASHINGTON: What are the terms of engagement for talks that chief spokesman and information minister Pervez Rashid says have already begun between the Taliban and the Nawaz Sharif government. Apparently the TTP is jacking up its negotiating position and military muscle is being demonstrated to get a better start. Bombs all over the country are exploding while any contact with the official middlemen is being denied. Demands have been raised to a total denial of existence of the Pakistani State and its constitution and geographic boundaries. Allegience to Mulla Omar has been reaffirmed and the larger alliance with Al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban has been underlined.
Serving as an officer at several branches in the Royal Netherlands Army, Rob Sentse worked amongst others, as a coach, as an intelligence analyst, as a project officer implementing Field Human Intelligence in the RNLA and as a trainer in Leadership and Didactic skills. After a 38 year career he retired in September 2011. Right now he runs his own company in executive, personal and team coaching and as a trainer incommunicative, social, leadership and didactic skills.(www.robsentse.nl)
In 2001 he worked in BiH (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska, RS) where he implemented a Bosnia wide project to bring into contact the several veteran unions with the local care attribution.
He built a social network consisting of the Minister of Health RS, mayors, psychiatrics, psychologists and Croat/Serb/Bosniac veterans’unions.
The Project had attention at BiH National television and other national media.
In 2006 Rob Sentse was deployed to the Canadian lead Regional Command HQ in Kandahar as J2PLANS.
In 2008 he served as G2X for Taskforce Urzugan in Tarin Kowt.
In 2010 Rob worked as a Military Observer for UNMIS in Sudan.
In 1997 he earned his Bachelor degree of Social Works at the Eindhoven University of Applied Sciences. Rob graduated with his project about prevention programs against bullying, (sexual) intimidation, blackmail and other types of violence, for Dutch scholars aging 12-18. The project had attention in national newspapers and on national television and was implemented at several Dutch schools.
Rob is a Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) participant. Website: www.nisa-intelligence.nl
As an author of several articles about leadership and didactic skills, terrorism, political and economical relations, his articles were published in several (military) magazines and newspapers. http://www.slideshare.net/RobSentseBc
Selected Publications:
AF bandwidth dead right now. Three items to be posted soon.
Many people think the TC, created in 1973 by David Rockefeller, is a relic of an older time.
Think again.
Patrick Wood, author of Trilaterals Over Washington, points out there are only 87 members of the Trilateral Commission who live in America. Obama appointed eleven of them to posts in his administration.
Keep in mind that the original stated goal of the TC was to create “a new international economic order.” Knowing that you have to break eggs to make an omelette, consider how the following TC members, in key Obama posts, can help engender further national chaos; erase our sovereign national borders; and install binding international agreements that will envelop our economy and money in a deeper global collective: a new world order:
“Google Inc. is now aligned with the notorious ALEC. Quietly, Google has joined ALEC — the American Legislative Exchange Council — the shadowy corporate alliance that pushes odious laws through state legislatures. In the process, Google has signed onto an organization that promotes such regressive measures as tax cuts for tobacco companies, school privatization to help for-profit education firms, repeal of state taxes for the wealthy and opposition to renewable energy disliked by oil companies. ALEC's reactionary efforts — thoroughly documented by the Center for Media and Democracy — are shameful assaults on democratic principles. And Google is now among the hundreds of companies in ALEC. Many people who've admired Google are now wondering: How could this be? Well, in his recent book Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy, Robert W. McChesney provides vital context. “It is true that with the advent of the Internet many of the successful giants — Apple and Google come to mind — were begun by idealists who may have been uncertain whether they really wanted to be old-fashioned capitalists,” he writes. “The system in short order has whipped them into shape.”
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