Winslow Wheeler: Stop the Assassination of the A-10

Usually ignored by the press as insufficiently interesting to technology dazzled editors and reviled by the civilian and military leadership of the Air Force as not what they think they should spend money and careers on, the A-10 “Warthog” has broken through into Washington DC’s consciousness.  Interestingly, the attention was provoked by a heavy handed …

Event: 22-24 JAN 14 Nashville TN InfoWarCon 2014

Beyond Information Warfare “Mr. Schwartau, why would the bad guys ever want to use the internet…?” (Congressman Glickman during Congressional Testimony, June 1991) It was obvious. To some of us. Now, it is almost impossible to quantify how far behind we really are. Information Warfare (some relegated the term as politically incorrect) or CyberWar or …

Berto Jongman: Prison Letters — Pussy Riot and Slavoj Zizek

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot’s prison letters to Slavoj Žižek Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is currently in a prison hospital in Siberia; here she and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek meet in an extraordinary exchange of letters • Pussy Riot: composer Cecilie Ore’s choral tribute to the punk band Slavoj Žižek, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova The Guardian, Friday 15 …

Stephen E. Arnold: Social Media and News – Amazing Graphic + Comment on Amazon & Wikipedia

Social Media and News: Amazing Graphic “News Use across Social Media Platforms” confirms what I have suspected for a while. The mobile generation has some interesting behavior patterns with regard to news. Among the factoids that the Pew outfit has boiled down to numbers are: ITEM: YouTube viewers are not using the service to get …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Backdoors and Hardware Attacks Beyond GPS to IPS CYBERPOL Guantanamo – Media Missing the Point? Hackers in Demand — and Rehabilitated Human Security First Open Academy Snowden Method – How He Breached NSA Stuxnet in Space (from 2008 onwards) Swimming Drone Wall Street Rigged — Robo Details Weaponized Internet

Rickard Falkvinge: Free Does Not Mean Exempt from Criticism

“Free” Does Not Mean “Exempt From Criticism” Posted: 11 Nov 2013 12:56 PM PST Freedom of Speech – Zacqary Adam Green:  “What is everyone complaining about? This is a free service, and [large corporation] can do whatever they want with it!” That’s true. Also wrong. Please stop saying it. There’s always outrage whenever a popular …

Penguin: Our Veterans, Our Blood, Our Soul

This captures my continuing anguish. How American Troops in Afghanistan became Unreal (Jones) Ann Jones writes at Tomdispath.com Informed Comment Posted on 11/08/2013 by Juan Cole The last time I saw American soldiers in Afghanistan, they were silent. Knocked out by gunfire and explosions that left them grievously injured, as well as drugs administered by …