Stephen Aftergood: White House Sets New Goals for Open Government

WHITE HOUSE SETS NEW GOALS FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT In a new Open Government National Action Plan that was released today, the White House affirmed its support for open government values, and set an agenda for the remainder of the current Administration. “The new plan includes a wide range of actions the Administration will take over …

Berto Jongman: Campaign to Legislate End of Water for NSA in Utah…Going National

Some NSA Opponents Want to ‘Nullify’ Surveillance With State Law Activists say legislation can cut water, kill snooping at Utah Data Center The National Security Agency has an Achilles heel, according to some anti-surveillance activists. The key vulnerability, according to members of the OffNow coalition of advocacy groups: The electronic spy agency’s reliance on local …

Chuck Spinney: The Intellectual and Political Foundations of 21st Century Jihad Sayyid Qutub’s Fundamentalism and Abu Bakr Naji’s Jihadism

My friend, Bill Polk, a distinguished historian specializing in the Middle East, is busily writing a series of extended essays aimed at increasing our understanding of the conflict in Syria and, by extension, our seemingly  perpetual war with the Islamic world.  I posted the first part of this series, collectively entitled Understanding Syria, on 8 …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

CYBER: Archiving Next Generation Social Media CYBER: China Claims Victory in Internet Scrub CYBER: Cyber-Intelligence Complex & Dirty Tricks CYBER: Internet Kill Switch Fact or Fiction? CYBER: NSA Has Landed Us All in a Mess (Guardian) CYBER: Tempest Security Intelligence (Company) Selected by The Economist ETHICS: Japan Secrecy Bill Diverges from Postwar Pacifism THREAT: 3 …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

CYBER: Botnets Elicit Mercenary Government Approach CYBER: Dutch Hack Internet Forums CYBER: Dutch Rules for Mass Interceptions CYBER: Encryption Arms Race (Techies vs. NSA) CYBER: Trojan-Banker.Win32/64.Neverquest CYBER: True Cost of Cybercrime EDUCATION: Virtual Reality to Reduce Racism? ETHICS: UK Destroyed Files on Its Colonial Atrocities THREAT: CAR Crisis – “Human Catastrophe of Epic Proportions” THREAT: …