The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The News According to Clay Shirky Changes in the news industry are making headlines and according to New York University professor and author Clay Shirky, it might be time to stop the presses. “The newspaper model is going away, and there is no obvious single replacement for it,” says Shirky. When it comes to what’s in …
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Exclusive: Courier Led U.S. to al Qaeda Internet Conference by Eli Lake, Josh Rogin 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 …
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Locate That Pesky Web Server Posted: 09 Aug 2013 08:06 PM PDT Where are Web sites hosted? The average user has no idea how to harness the right tools to locate where a server is located, but there might be a common solution. Makeuseof.com, gotta love that Web site, wrote the article, “Find Out Where …
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Wolfram Alpha Is The Superman Of Databases Posted: 09 Aug 2013 08:04 PM PDT Before the better Internet we have today, school children used to have rely on poor search and hacked together Web sites to cheat on their homework. The Wolfram Alpha database did not exist and it made school children rely on their …
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How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut This story appears in the September 2, 2013 issue of Forbes. EXTRACT Palantir lives the realities of its customers: the NSA, the FBI and the CIA–an early investor through its In-Q-Tel venture fund–along with an alphabet soup of other U.S. counterterrorism and military agencies. In …
Dafna Aizenberg’s Atlas of the World Wide Web visualizes data taken from the internet. Image: Dafna Aizenberg A traditional atlas can tell you a lot about a place—its population, its religious affiliations, its geographical quirks—but it tends to ignore a major aspect of daily life in 2013: the internet. For the past 30 years, the our digital …
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How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally received queries from strangers. She replied to this one and sent her public …
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