Yoda: Google Going Up In Flames
Strike, lightning did…. Four Lightning Strikes in Belgium Erase Google Customer Data
Berto Jongman: Social Media OSINT Largely Worthless — Russian Trolls Confuse US Butts in Seats w/o a Clue
Russia’s Troll Army Is Making Life Harder for US Spies US Spies Find Open Source Investigations Worthless, Blame ‘Russian Trolls’
Berto Jongman: 6 Corporations Control Science
Nearly All Scientific Papers Controlled By Same Six Corporations Researchers looked at scientific literature published between 1973 – 2013 and found that companies ACS, Reed Elsevier, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell controlled nearly every single one.
Steven Aftergood : JASON on Open Sources — 25 Years Late
CROWD-SOURCING THE TREATY VERIFICATION PROBLEM “Never before has so much information and analysis been so widely and openly available. The opportunities for addressing future [treaty] monitoring challenges include the ability to track activity, materials and components in far more detail than previously, both for purposes of treaty verification and to counter WMD proliferation,” according to …
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Berto Jongman: IDA on Global Coverage — Without Reference to Prior Art or the Real World
Without reference to Boyd Sutton or anyone else of note. Rethinking the Concept of Global Coverage in the U.S. Intelligence Community Institute for Defense Analysis, May 2015
Robert Steele: Visa & MasterCard Begin Moral Policing — Time to Shut Them Down
From PayPal to Amazon to Visa & MasterCard, we now know that it is time to end our reliance on intermediaries. This moral policing by Visa and MasterCard is horribly ignorant, wrong, and should be a basis for public boycott of both of these card services — what’s next: not letting you use payment cards …
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Robert Steele: Elsevier Reeling on Sharing
Elsevier is feeling the strong pressure from a world-wide movement to force them into sensibility about sharing. Universities around the world, including MIT, and many other parties, have signed a strong denouncement here. Buried within the comments, where Elsevier’s Alicia Wise is participating, is this statement that I have accepted in agreeing to do an …
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