The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I am constantly amazed at the growing corruption of the American government. It is unlike anything I have seen in my lifetime. We have 17 millions children who go to bed hungry; we have elders who have lost even the one meal a day they could rely upon; we have 47 million people without health …
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As Balko demonstrates in a long excerpt from his book, Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, published in Salon, the incident described below, plus innumerable incidents of police extreme, overwhelming and excessive violence, are not rising due to a few bad apples and rogue cops, but rather to a much …
Mobile security startup Bluebox Security has unearthed a vulnerability in Android’s security model which it says means that the nearly 900 million Android phones released in the past four years could be exploited, or some 99% of Android devices. The vulnerability has apparently been around since Android v1.6 (Donut), and was disclosed by the firm to …
Robert Garigue (RIP) remains one of the giants of 21st Century cyber-security. He was 20 years ahead of his time, and most have still not caught up with him. Below is his cloud list, but we have also selected a few items to showcase. Trust on the edges, not centralized butts in seats, is the …
Rethinking Security for the Internet of Things by Chris Clearfield Harvard Business Review, June 26, 2013 Cyber attacks, once primarily directed against networks to steal confidential information and wreak virtual havoc, have begun to expand and are now directly affecting the physical world. For example, the recent hacking of the Associated Press’s Twitter account by …
Here’s How Edward Snowden Got ‘Top Secret’ Clearance By DAVID FRANCIS, The Fiscal Times June 21, 2013 A Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee met Thursday afternoon to examine the government’s process for granting security clearance. The purpose of the meeting was to figure out how someone like Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, could get access to …
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Former CIA Head Warns David Gregory: We’ll Have To Be ‘Less Effective To Be A Little More Transparent’ Former CIA Director Michael Hayden told Meet the Press’ David Gregory on Sunday morning that security and transparency were a zero-sum game. “For part of my life, when I was running the NSA program, I thought lawful, …
