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2013/09/27

John Robb: Open Source Conflicts Rule — NOW Do You Get It?

What has dominated human conflict since the turn of the Millennium? Posted: 26 Sep 2013 03:21 PM PDT Here’s an important question. What do the following have in common? 9/11 and Al Qaeda’s subsequent attacks The Iraq War (the guerrilla war) The Nigerian Conflict (MEND vs. Shell Oil – 2007 — cause of the oil …

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2013/09/142013/09/14

Berto Jongman: Google Evil – Exploits All Wi-Fi Passwords

Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world By Michael Horowitz Computer World, September 12, 2013 If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password. Considering how many Android devices there are, it is likely that Google can access most Wi-Fi …

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2013/09/04

Bruce Schneier: How Advanced Is the NSA’s Cryptanalysis — And Can We Resist It?

How Advanced Is the NSA’s Cryptanalysis — And Can We Resist It? Bruce Schneier WIRED Magazine, 09.04.13 The latest Snowden document is the US intelligence “black budget.” There’s a lot of information in the few pages the Washington Post decided to publish, including an introduction by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. In it, he …

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2013/09/02

Owl: Google as Empire, Google as Front for Empire, the Nuances of Evil

“How the World Really Works” Key takeaway from this item by Julian Assange, which came out in Australia August 24, 2013 (my emphasis): “Back in 2011 I had a meeting with Eric Schmidt, the then Chairman of Google, who came out to see me with three other people while I was under house arrest. You …

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2013/08/14

Mini-Me: Reliable Teleportation at Quantum Level

Huh? Teleportation: Behind the Science of Quantum Computing Researchers were able to reliably teleport information between quantum bits. Melody Kramer National Geographic, August 14, 2013 It might seem like something straight from the Star Trek universe, but two new research experiments—one involving a photon and the other involving a super-conducting circuit—have successfully demonstrated the teleportation …

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2013/08/132013/08/13

Jean Lievens: Open source has won, let’s look to the future

Open source has won, let’s look to the future Mark Hinkle My nearly 11 minute keynote at OSCON 2013 this year, felt long enough when I gave it, but in terms of what I have to say about the future of open source, it wasn’t even close. Here I expand on the lessons I’ve learned …

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