William Binney: Big Data Analysis

Big Data Analysis As published in European Data Protection Law Review, Vol 3 (2017), pp. 13-15. My experience in working with Big Data over the last 40 plus years involves data produced by communications or transactions between people, not machines talking to other machines or themselves, or machines taking measurements.

Robert Steele: General Vincent Stewart Has Destroyed the National Intelligence University by Appointing Another Mediocrity — Dr. J. Scott Cameron — the “Fix” Was In…

I am dismayed by the cavalier “selection” of Dr. J. Scott Cameron to be the new president of the National Intelligence University. This is not an individual who knows anything about the craft of intelligence at all four levels of operations and analysis, nor is this an individual who has demonstrated integrity or innovation in …

The Trump “Intelligence” Briefing Has No Proof Russians Hacked (or Leaked) Anything: Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections UPDATE 8

Best line = ZERO proof: “Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact. Assessments are based on collected information, which is often incomplete or fragmentary, as well as logic, argumentation, and precedents.” We do not make this stuff up. The DNI just committed suicide. In three …

Jan Helge Kalvik: Managing the Boundary Zone – a Swedish Perspective on Intelligence in the Balkan Wars

Managing the Boundary Zone – a Swedish Perspective on Intelligence in the Balkan Wars Defence and Intelligence Norway The experiences we have described illustrate the role of social relations in the intelligence function. These are marked with trust, distrust or some mixture of both. However, in system terms, despite hostile relations between two or more …