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Blake Percival, IC Security Clearance Whistleblower, Wins One on the Margins

The whistleblower who exposed U.S.’s flawed security clearance system finally gets his reward By Christian Davenport, The Washington Post, 18 December 2015 “I hate that we dump,” one of them confided. “What do you mean?” Blake Percival asked. The answer — that the company was cutting corners performing the federal background checks used in granting …

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EVENT: 20 Jan 2016 London Call for Papers Decentralizing the Commons and the Internet

Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons These centralized choke-points can be used by governments to increase surveillance (as disclosed by the Snowden revelations), to blackout the Internet (e.g. Egypt, Syria, or San Francisco’s BART), or to restrict the activities of activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). It has now become clear that it is not enough to develop free/libre/open …

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DefDog: John Hamre Gets It Wrong — and Politico Lets Him Slide — “Electronic Pearl Harbor” is Original to Winn Schwartau

The ‘electronic Pearl Harbor’ Eighteen years ago I was the first to use that term publicly. It was the wrong analogy then. Not anymore. The phrase became a touchstone in the long national argument over cybersecurity, for better or worse. I was not the author of the phrase. That honor goes to a dear friend of …

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Yoda: Matt McAlister on Need for $1B Journalism Fund

Google and Facebook as the dark force… Silicon Valley should follow Google and create a $1bn journalism fund Matt McAlister of Publish.org The Guardian EXTRACT Europe has assumed the role of digital media regulator in the apparent absence of a moral compass within these platforms that exert increasing influence over our lives.

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Robert Steele: Eric Schmidt is a Moron [Under His Rules, This Post Would Be Censored]

Google’s Eric Schmidt calls for ‘spell-checkers for hate and harassment’ Google’s Eric Schmidt has called on the technology industry to put its collective intelligence behind tackling terrorism on the internet, by building “spell-checkers, but for hate and harassment”. NOTE: It is very likely The Guardian will delete the below comments as made publicly there. This …

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Daniel Araya: Interview with Robert Steele on the Open Source Revolution

Interview: Former CIA Officer Robert Steele Discusses Why We Need an Open Source Revolution 全文下面的折疊對於那些使用谷歌翻譯。 Полный текст ниже раза для тех, кто использует Google Translate.  النص الكامل بالأسفل أضعاف عن تلك التي تستخدم مترجم جوجل. Textul complet partea inferioară a paginii pentru cei care folosesc Google Translate.