Anon is having a brainstorming session on 14th April, all day, to discuss “a parallel internet”. You can find their IRC room at: irc.anonops.net #anonsec
Tip of the Hat to Om Goeckerman at Google Group Distributed Decentralized Internet.
Global Conversation on Internet Freedom
Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligencebuilding-a-distributed-decentralized-internet@googlegroups.com
YAY Bucky Fuller!
Strangely enough, with all the nightmare scenario's currently playing out, their corollary, our best dreams are also playing out.
The stuff about being targeted and persecuted, shut-down etc. becomes irrelevant in the face of a few billion users who are able to leapfrog the existing infrastructure and communicate directly with one another. Meanwhile the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) would probably be happy to extend their wing for us to gather under.
The prolific depth of mobile phone access around the world, along with the radical decrease in cost of web capable devices, paints a picture of a planetary population about to demand an alternative method of communicating besides paying a monthly fee to some telco.
Cheap hardware plus electricity should equal communicative ability!
If we don't do it, some kid in Kinshasa will – well, she will, whether we do it or not.. maybe she already has.
There are also other discussions happening and the most relevant I see is this one:
Anon is having a brainstorming session on 14th April, all day, to discuss “a parallel internet”. You can find their IRC room at: irc.anonops.net #anonsec
In terms of sheer numbers of users and real world trial and error/lessons learned recently with the efforts to support Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, China using a variety of ‘darknet' and packet management techniques; there is a very compelling case for us all to attend.
This is a user community that would gravitate toward anything that worked ‘better' and are very capable of driving a meme into production.
In the end, everyone will gravitate to whatever works better. Slow and free with a prospect of getting much, much, faster is also qualified as being ‘better' by a growing population. Slow, free and available in the bush is also ‘better' for about four Billion people. Enough to start things off anyway. By the time it gets fast enough, Western consumers will gladly jump onboard.
Tip of the Hat to Om Goeckerman at Google Group Distributed Decentralized Internet.
Phi Beta Iota: Infinite free energy is close and will not be “locked up.” That will enable local to global clouds. Open Farm approach applied to Open Communications is going to take us the rest of the way, starting with OpenBTS (Range Networks).
Seth Godin: Wasting the Digital Dividend
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Wasting the digital dividend
The internet means that many time-consuming forms of white-collar drudgery have disappeared, or at least been offloaded to cheaper people who aren't you, permitting you to spend more time on things that are actually productive and highly leveraged.
No more standing in line at the copier, trudging to the Fedex box, waiting two weeks for a letter to be returned, leaving voice mails, searching for the right person to contact, waiting months to learn a skill or a fact, discovering that a project is hopelessly broken, and on and on.
It's a little like the bump we got after the Cold War ended. The peace dividend was there, just waiting for us to repurpose our military, our military budget and our military research. We didn't. We squandered the window, wasted the money and didn't rush to fill it with the sort of top-down industrial projects (like high speed rail and efficient new forms of energy) that could have changed everything.
So, what are you going to do with the digital dividend? Cruise Facebook?
Phi Beta Iota: The blatant dishonesty of the US Government is breath-taking in that it fails to inspire a public backlash. Instead of spending $12 billion a year on Internet freedom, it spends it on corporate vapor-ware ostensibly to achieve cyber-security. NEWS FLASH: The current grid is impossible to defend and not worth defending; what we can steal is not worth the cost or time. For the public to not realize that one third of the federal budget, over one trillion a year is borrowed, and to allow the “debate” to be about less than $100 million, suggests that the US public has the government it deserves: the stupid “led” by the unethical.
Search: intelligence outreach
SearchesSearch <intelligence outreach> .. Search <outreach>. This entire website is about intelligence outreach. Thank you for this incentive to outline a summary of core contributions here on this topic.
Intelligence outreach today is virtually non-existent for several reasons:
1, Secret world refuses to mature and serve all stakeholders for decision-support.
2. Secret world refuses to take Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) seriously.
3. Secret world refuses to recognize the eight tribes of intelligence as vital partners.
4. Secret world is stove-piped and incapable of integrating already fragmented knowledge.
5. Secret world is not held accountable for not knowing what can be known.
6. Congress has abdicated its Article 1 responsibilities and is a two-party crime family.
7. White House has sold out to Wall Street and been irresponsible about leadership.
Three things are required to excel at intelligence outreach:
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SSL Has Sucking Chest Wounds–Time to Die…
UncategorizedHow is SSL hopelessly broken? Let us count the ways
Blunders expose huge cracks in net's trust foundation
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author
Posted in Security, 11th April 2011 03:00 GMT
Phi Beta Iota: Instead of spending $12 billion on cyber-attack and trying to defend 1970's technology created by 1950's mind-sets, Cyber-Command should be focusing on actually creating deep embedded code-level and data-level security. The continued lack of intelligence and integrity in US cyber is troubling.
Tip of the Hat to Lynn Wheeler at LinkedIn.
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