The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Most do not understand that the EU's new regulations are not really about privacy and copyright, they are about killing #GoogleGestapo and particularly Google, Instagram, and YouTube. Any image, any video, that displays any brand leads to an “all stop” that requires checking and approval by the brand owner before publishing. This could be interpreted as the Deep State's very clever way of shutting down the Internet social media complex.
On the bright side…
China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls
Officials pledge support for European-led ‘Plan S’ to make research papers immediately free to read — but it’s unclear whether China will adopt all the plan’s policies.
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A useful compilation but still very passive — everything here can be done from a cubicle and can only be done via the Internet. The mention of Gray Literature is mis-guided since most gray literature is analog not digital.
Rethinking OSINT as an Intelligence Discipline
Defining Open Source and OSINT
OSINT Subtypes
…News Media Content
…Gray Literature.
…Long-Form Social Media Content
…Short-Form Social Media Content
OSINT Methodology: The OSINT Operations Cycle
…Collection
…Processing
…Exploitation
…Production
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: RAND on OSINT — Without Integrity”
Court demands that search engines and internet service providers block Sci-Hub
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has won a lawsuit it filed in June against Sci-Hub, a website providing illicit free access to millions of paywalled scientific papers.
Extracts & Comment Below the Fold
Below the fold are thirteen links to the most important statements from Richard Stallman, father of GNU (GNU's Not Unix), and arguably the most important mind responsible for starting the Open Source Everything revolution. He prefers the term Free.
What if…public libraries could anchor a platform cooperative?
Supporting the disrupted going forward….
We recently published our submission to the Libraries Taskforce consultation about its draft strategy – Libraries Deliver: An Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016-21. Today, we want to say a bit more about our having called upon the Taskforce to explore the opportunities for public libraries that could flow from the growth of the ‘sharing economy’ and, in particular, moves to establish Platform Cooperatives.
