The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
ARSTRAT_IO_Newsletter_v13_no_08 Articles in this issue: 1. Clearing the Air on Cyber, Electronic Warfare 2. American Gets Targeted by Digital Spy Tool Sold to Foreign Governments 3. US Army Maps Future of the Electronic Battlefield 4. Silent War 5. US Disrupts Al-Qaeda’s Online Magazine 6. …
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Data, meet spies: The unfinished state of Web crypto Many large Web companies have failed to adopt a decades-old encryption technology to safeguard confidential user communications. Google is a rare exception, and Facebook is about to follow suit. Declan McCullagh June 26, 2013 Revelations about the National Security Agency’s surveillance abilities have highlighted shortcomings in …
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What is Big (Crisis) Data? What does Big Data mean in the context of disaster response? Big (Crisis) Data refers to the relatively large volume, velocity and variety of digital information that may improve sense making and situational awareness during disasters. This is often referred to the 3 V’s of Big Data. Volume refers to the amount of data (20 million tweets were posted …
Navigating a Web where “nothing to hide” doesn’t help you or democracy be safe Having nothing to hide is no guarantee of avoiding trouble due to NSA surveillance, which can create an environment of fear, a suppression of cultural creativity, and opportunities for politically targeted suppression, generally degrading democracy. The erosion of privacy can be …
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Anti-Drone Activists Stopped at U.S. Canadian Border due to “Orders of Protection” given by court to Commander of Drone Base By Charley Bowman In mid-June, 2013, Western New York Peace Center board member Valerie Niederhoffer was stopped and interrogated for several hours at the U.S.-Canadian border when returning to the US from an afternoon doing …
GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal Read full article.
Thomas Malone, director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, is one of the leading thinkers in the realm of anticipating how new technologies will transform the way work is done and leaders lead. His 2004 book, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your …
