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Exclusive: Courier Led U.S. to al Qaeda Internet Conference

The Daily Beast, Aug 20, 2013 1:25 PM EDT

U.S. officials followed the Internet trail of an al Qaeda courier to learn the details of an electronic conference between more than 20 of the organization’s top officials.

Prior to the worldwide security alert that temporarily shuttered U.S. embassies throughout the Middle East earlier this month, authorities captured an al Qaeda courier who had in his possession a recording of a seven-hour Internet-hosted meeting between more than 20 senior al Qaeda leaders from around the globe, U.S. intelligence officials said.

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Earlier this summer, the al Qaeda courier began uploading messages to a series of encrypted accounts containing minutes of what appeared to have been an important meeting. A U.S. intelligence agency was able to exploit a flaw in the courier’s operational security, intercepting the digital packets and locating the courier, according to two U.S. intelligence officials and one U.S. official who reviewed the intelligence. All three officials spoke on condition of anonymity.

Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Seven Hour Al Qaeda Conference Call — NSA Missed It”

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Stephen E. Arnold: Major Trends in Discovery Analytics

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Major Trends in Discovery Analytics

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:28 PM PDT

Analytics is the newest buzzword in the enterprise. Analytics indicates that that solution is intelligent and agile, and the industry is paying attention. Information Management gives the latest news in the article, “3 Major Trends in New Discovery Analytics.”

After a discussion of visual discovery’s role in data discovery, the author moves on to the second trend:

“The second trend is renewed focus on information discovery (i.e., search) . . . IBM acquired Vivisimo and has incorporated the technology into its PureSystems and big data platform. Microsoft recently previewed its big data information discovery tool, Data Explorer. Oracle acquired Endeca and has made it a key component of its big data strategy. SAP added search to its latest Lumira platform. LucidWorks, an independent information discovery vendor that provides enterprise support for open source Lucene/Solr, adds search as an API and has received significant adoption. There are different levels of search, from documents to social media data to machine data.”

LucidWorks is clearly holding their own among the major players, even huge proprietary companies like IBM and Oracle. And these longstanding commercial solutions are taking note of the real estate that the open source solutions, like LucidWorks, are carving out of their traditional territory. Users are pleased by the low price point, the efficient functionality, and the excellent customer support of LucidWorks and others like it.

Emily Rae Aldridge, August 22, 2013

Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search

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Stephen E. Arnold: Infographics Take on New Analytic Importance

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Infographics Take on New Analytic Importance

We are increasingly living in a big data and analytic society. But when discussing all this information, it’s hard to put a visual with it. Humans are, after all, very sight-oriented. However, that problem is quickly looking like a thing of the past after discovering a recent Make Use Of article, “Create Your Own Infographic about Your Facebook, Twitter and Youtube Use.”

According to the story:

What About Me is a free to use web service that lets you easily analyze how you have been using your Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube accounts. You start by granting the site access to your accounts. Your usage is analyzed and the infographic is generated while you play with some distractingly interactive circles that are displayed.

The infographic that is finally generated shows your interests in terms of percentages, how you react with friends, plus a number of other interesting things about your social networking usage.

This really is the next logical step in infographics. We’ve been lured, as Wired astutely pointed out, by infographics as “link bait” for a long time. It’s time we turned that gaze inward to see what our social habits say about us. This will take off, we predict.

Patrick Roland, August 21, 2013

Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search

2013/08/22

John Maguire: Dr. Edmund Storms on Cold Fusion, Nuclear Active Environments, and New Energy

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Dr. Edmund Storms: Cold Fusion, Nuclear Active Environments, and New Energy

Edmund Storms is a nuclear scientist with over two decades of experimental research in Cold Fusion. He is retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and is the founder of Kiva Labs. He is the author of The Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction, a comprehensive survey of the field published in 2007. He has also developed the theory of the Nuclear Active Environment as an explanatory mechanism for Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.

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Lee Camp: Instruction Manual for Pillaging the World

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This Is The Instruction Manual To Pillaging The World

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Rickard Falkvinge: The French government is dumber than a squirrel with broccoli in its socks…

Government, Idiocy, Law Enforcement

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…when it comes to anti-terror laws. I am currently in Paris, and I have seen really stupid things around the world, but this takes the cake.

I’m sitting in a Starbucks and logging on to their wi-fi, and I’m greeted with this login screen, where I must fill in my name and address before going online. This is to make sure that terrorists can be tracked. About this point, the French parliament must have run out of oxygen.

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