Anthony Judge: Circumventing Invasive Internet Surveillance with Carrier Pigeons

Circumventing Invasive Internet Surveillance with Carrier Pigeons Rewilding the endangered world wide web of avian migration pathways Introduction Recognized competence of carrier pigeons Demonstrated non-military messaging capacity of carrier pigeons Demonstrated non-messaging capacity of carrier pigeons Demonstrated military capacity of carrier pigeons Assessment of viability of data transfer by carrier pigeons Personal and social implications …

Patrick Meier: Automatically Identifying Fake Images Shared on Twitter During Disasters

Automatically Identifying Fake Images Shared on Twitter During Disasters Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to automatically predict the credibility of tweets generated during disasters. AI can also be used to automatically rank the credibility of tweets posted during major events. Aditi Gupta et al. applied these same information forensics techniques to automatically identify fake images posted on Twitter during Hurricane …

Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 63, June 2013

Free Software Supporter Issue 63, June 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Free Software Foundation statement on PRISM revelations A second FSF-certified device from ThinkPenguin: long-range USB Wifi adapter with Atheros chip April’s English translation team is recruiting volunteers MediaGoblin 0.4.0: Hall of the Archivist Announcing the newest fully free GNU/Linux distribution: LibreWRT FSF polo shirts have …

Stephen E. Arnold: Jaron Lanier – – Information Does NOT Want To Be Free — and the Internet Killed the Middle Class

The Dark Side of Information Posted: 27 Jun 2013 08:46 PM PDT Free information will be our doom, Quartz‘s Jaron Lanier asserts in, “Free Information, as Great as it Sounds, Will Enslave Us All.” From high-frequency trading to online marketing, insists Lanier, big data is being used by those with the resources to collect and …