The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CIA’s Gus Hunt On Big Data: We ‘Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Forever’ NEW YORK — The CIA’s chief technology officer outlined the agency’s endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday. VIDEO 28:30 Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO …
Have no idea what this means: The CIA Is About To Sign A Game-Changing $600 Million Deal With Amazon The CIA is on the verge of signing a cloud computing contract with Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years, reports Frank Konkel at Federal Computer Week. If the details about this deal are true, it …
Movement of the Day: Internet Defense League Franco Iacomella, 26th June 2012 “Alexis Ohanian, the 29-year old founder of social news site Reddit, has partnered with the online advocacy group Fight for the Future to create what they’re calling the “Internet Defense League.” Ohanian describes the project, which they plan to officially launch next month, …
Concerns, have we. Google Glass: The opposition grows “Stop The Cyborgs” is a new site that attempts to bring a balanced trepidation to the unbalanced idea that we’ll all be walking round with Google’s outer brain strapped to our faces. The opposition will congregate in dark corners. They will whisper with their mouths, while their …
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Goodbye ‘information economy’; hello ‘hacker economy’ By Joe McKendrick | February 3, 2013, 9:09 AM PST By now, the term “information economy” has been beaten to death. Now, we may be moving into a new realm one observer calls the “hacker economy.” That’s the word from Greg Satell, who suggests that we’re evolving beyond the …
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Free Software Supporter Issue 58, January 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS RIP Aaron Swartz Interview with Matthieu Aubry of Piwik Popular self-publishing and book printing company, Lulu, drops DRM What can we ask of the USPTO? Where in the world is RMS? community contest GNU Press releases new edition of the Emacs manual! Don’t miss our …
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Cloud Computing as Enclosure 15th January 2013 Republished from David Bollier: “As more and more computing moves off our PCs and into “the Cloud,” Internet users are gaining access to a wealth of new software-based services that can exploit vast computing capacity and memory storage. That’s wonderful. But what about our freedom to create and …
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