The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Saving The tide has clearly turned against the techno-financial paradigm that disregards natural capital costs and exploits the 99% in favor of the 1%. Even a few billionaires have figured this out. Time, however, is not on our side, nor is truth easy to find in today’s severely corrupt information environment where all …
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The ‘electronic Pearl Harbor’ Eighteen years ago I was the first to use that term publicly. It was the wrong analogy then. Not anymore. The phrase became a touchstone in the long national argument over cybersecurity, for better or worse. I was not the author of the phrase. That honor goes to a dear friend of …
Reflecting on Eric Schmidt’s idiocy of yesterday, and the failure of Google to render useful tools enhancing public understanding and power, I asked a few folks what business Google was in, and how we should interpret their introducing of Google Fiber to major cities. The answer is: Google is in the business of mass surveillance, …
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Understanding Trolls, Spam, and Nasty Content “From terrorist propaganda distributed by organizations such as ISIS, to political activism, diverse voices now use social media as their major public platform. Organizations deploy bots — virtual, automated posters — as well as enormous paid “armies” of human posters or trolls, and hacking schemes to overwhelmingly infiltrate the …
Interview: Former CIA Officer Robert Steele Discusses Why We Need an Open Source Revolution 全文下面的折疊對於那些使用谷歌翻譯。 Полный текст ниже раза для тех, кто использует Google Translate. النص الكامل بالأسفل أضعاف عن تلك التي تستخدم مترجم جوجل. Textul complet partea inferioară a paginii pentru cei care folosesc Google Translate.
ROBERT STEELE: There are iron curtains between the tribes; wooden walls between industries and organizations, and plastic sheets between individuals in the same organization. Micah Sifry’s book, The Big Disconnect, and Stephen E. Arnold’s book CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access, capture my concerns perfectly. The IT industry has been corrupt (selling out to NSA), criminal …
Entity Extraction: Human Intermediation Still Necessary I read “Facebook Should Be Able to Handle names like Isis and Phuc Dat Bich.” The article underscores the challenges smart software faces in a world believing that algorithms deliver the bacon. Entity extraction methods requiring human subject matter experts and dictionary editors are expensive and slow. Algorithms are …
