Berto Jongman: Activity Based Intelligence — with NSA-NGA Merger Coming Along Nicely

Activity-Based Intelligence Uses Metadata to Map Adversary Networks Gabriel Miller Defense News, 8 July 2013 Few outside the intelligence community had heard of activity-based intelligence until December, when the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency awarded BAE Systems $60 million to develop products based on this newish methodology. But ABI, which focuses not on specific targets but …

John Robb: Open Source Protests Everywhere — All Seeking Government Legitimacy Instead of Government Corruption

Protests Everywhere (here’s why) We’re seeing protests everywhere.  From Brazil to Turkey to Egypt. What’s going on?  Here are some. Once ignited, open source protest is hard to stamp out.   Open source protest is usually focused on a single overarching goal.  In most recent cases, it’s a call for a government that isn’t corrupt. …

Berto Jongman: 20 Years Late, Council on Foreign Relations Has a Stab at Thinking About Cyber + Cyber Meta-RECAP

Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet Overview This CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force warns that “escalating attacks on countries, companies, and individuals, as well as pervasive criminal activity, threaten the security and safety of the Internet.” The number of “state-backed operations continues to rise, and future attacks will become more sophisticated and disruptive,” argues …

Robin Good: Google, Yahoo, Others Fear RSS, Locking It Down — We the People NEED an Autonomous Internet with Open Source Everything!

Marco Arment the creator of Instapaper, has an excellent and provocative piece on why Google is closing down all of its RSS appendages (they just closed also the RSS feeds in Google Alerts) and the logic behind this strategy. Lockdown He writes: “Officially, Google killed Reader because “over the years usage has declined”.1 I believe …

Stephen E. Arnold: DuckDuckGo Clobbering Google Goose – Robert Steele Comments

The Duck Is Gaining Over the Google Goose July 5, 2013 Remember the old child game “duck duck goose?” It is now time to play “duck duck Google” with the top search engine chasing DuckDuckGo around in a circle. The privacy-based search engine may still end up being in the metaphorical pot, but Search Engine …

Evo Morales: Indignation Over Impunity

O presidente boliviano Evo Morales em entrevista coletiva no aeroporto de Viena, na Áustria Bolivian President Evo Morales at a press conference at the airport in Vienna, Austria 25 verdades sobre o caso Evo Morales/Edward Snowden: Caso mostra que União Europeia é um engodo político e diplomático, sempre subserviente às exigências de Washington 25 truths …

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 …