The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dedicated to the dissemination of public documents relating notably France and Europe.
Frenchleaks.fr (in English using Google translate)
Don't be surprised to find the site down. Thanks to Telecomix Twitter feed.
Phi Beta Iota: This is going to be happening for every government, every corporation, every non-governmental (e.g. BloodLeaks for the Red Cross). The Power of the Powerless is ON.
2010-12-04 How WikiLeaks builds a global open source insurgency
2010-11-21 Global Guerrillas (John Robb) on Open Source Jihad
2010-03-12 JOURNAL: OSW Standing Orders (11 of them)
2010-02-16 dkgreenroots: oil addiction, open source insurgency & black swans: Part II
2009-11-17 Open Source Insurgency through Software Tools
2009-09-14 An Early Plan for Open Source Peaceful Evolution
LEAKS A “SERIOUS PROBLEM” FOR DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE
Unauthorized disclosures of classified information are among “the major challenges” facing defense intelligence, Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers told Congress last month. Mr. Vickers is awaiting Senate confirmation to be the new USD(I), a post that was last held by James R. Clapper, who is now the Director of National Intelligence. The Under Secretary is “dual-hatted” as Director of Defense Intelligence.
Continue reading “Secrecy News: Mike Vickers on Leaks as “Serious””
Google Voice discovered allowing pure VoIP calls
Google Voice users learned late Monday that the service now has a way of making purely Internet-based phone calls. Making a SIP call with a “sip:” prefix, the Google Voice phone number and @sip.voice.google.com skips the conventional phone network entirely, saving users cellphone minutes. Disruptive Telephony tested it and found that a call worked “great.”
Phi Beta Iota: This is in our view NSA's wet dream (they're tight with Google, which started with CIA funding, taking over Alta Vista when HP lost its mind, and stealing Yahoo's search engine). We're moving toward everyone having an IP address instead of a telephone number, and absent the Freedom Box and other non-Google options Google is well on its way to owning the 10% of the data and voice that uses the cloud. This is also a play for the three billion poor. When combined with Google's sponsorship of the O3b satellite system, one can assume they have a cell phone in the works that is simple, cheap, and can be given away in return for “owning” your voice the way the US Post Office “owns” your name. The Google Trilogy remains the best open record of all that Google seeks to conceal.
GOOD NEWS from Ivan Popovski in Hungary. It looks like they force to be @sip.voice.google.com. The idea is that every person could easily install their own SIP proxy and media server, so in that case you don't need to be ‘@sip.voice.google.com‘ user, but you could register on ‘@yourdomain.com‘. Of course, you could call people on any
domain/IP. By the way, a few months ago I bought sipware.org/sipware.net, so I could develop method to rapidly install SIP proxy/media server on any computer. Hope to get live cd or something like that soon. Not sure how many of you are interested in this? That media server will be conferencing and will use open source codecs (speex/theora) + instant messaging (conferences also) and presence. Am in development phase. Anyway, when you have something like that, it is not hard to connect it with VoIP, and people already talked about OpenBTS and stuff like that.
Addendum: This is a Google “probe;” as one member of the Autonomous Internet discussion pointed out, it is only being done in the USA. To understand Google's larger strategy there is not finer reference than The Google Trilogy by Stephen E. Arnold. Another member of the group has pointed out that Google is in the business of earning profit for its shareholders, to which we respond with two observations: 1) they are still spending more in shareholder fantasy cash than they are actually earning; and 2) cyber-space is a commons–we cannot turn it over to corporations any more than we can turn over public services to corporations. Autonomous Internet–the Open Source Tri-Fecta–is a long-needed correction to what Winn Schaurtau called Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway.
The Pitch: Own Your Cloud
1. Search Personal Cloud Data
2. Unify Your Email
3. Single Sign-On
4. Manage Online Documents
5. Backup Your Cloud Data
6. Manage Your Photos
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Phi Beta Iota: A member of our collective saw this at DEMO Spring 2011. What impressed us most was not the product but the fact that it was being led by the guy who created Gold Mine, in its time one of the best Contact Management offerings. This offering still appears to be in gestation, but what captured our attention was its potential as a foundation for autonomous communities of interest that could control their own data. It is offered FREE. Worth a look!
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Phi Beta Iota: A member of our collective saw this at DEMO Spring 2011. It felt right and the people around it felt right also. Strong “worth a look.”
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Testimonial (one of many): “Gordon Cook is fiber in a world of dial-up. He asks timely and provocative questions, invites leading practitioners and experts on all sides to debate them online for several weeks, cuts to the heart of the debates, and publishes the results in language that serious lay readers can understand. No other online journal matches the Cook Report's combination of richness of content and accessibility.”
Phi Beta Iota: A member of our collective met for four hours with Gordon Cook, and came away deeply impressed. He is a very difficult man to interview, with so much knowledge of the Internet across the spectrum from governance to corruption, from technical to standards, from abuse to world-saving potential, that focusing in on any particulars is a time-consuming task. Having said that, when he does produce a product, it is brilliant, replete with detail not to be found anywhere else, and for those who care about an Autonomous Internet, priceless. We strongly recommend his private list which is by subscription (link immediately above).
