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2010/12/192010/12/19

Your Apps Are Watching You…AND Reporting Intimate Details Without Your Consent…

Your Apps Are Watching You A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users By SCOTT THURM and YUKARI IWATANI KANE Wall Street Journal, Sunday, December 18, 2010 Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the …

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2010/12/17

Journal: Weasal words more difficult to get away with

Weasel words are more difficult to get away with I got a note from someone who “helps lead the internet and Media efforts” at a fairly well known venture firm. A click over to their website indicates that he’s not a Managing Director or a Partner, not a Limited Senior Advisor, nor a Founding Strategic …

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2010/12/162010/12/16

Review: A Cross-Polity Survey (1963)

Arthur S. Banks (Author), Robert B. Textor (Author) Set a Standard, Modern Version Urgently Needed December 16, 2010 When I was a graduate student in the 1970’s, “Banks & Textor” was the bible, and I could not have done my first graduate thesis on revolution without its inspiration. This reference taught me how to “operationalize” …

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2010/12/142010/12/14

Secrecy News Extract: JASONS on Cyber-Security

JASON: SCIENCE OF CYBER SECURITY NEEDS MORE WORK “Cyber security is now critical to our survival but as a field of research [it] does not have a firm scientific basis,” according to the Department of Defense. “Our current security approaches have had limited success and have become an arms race with our adversaries. In order …

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2010/12/132010/12/13

Could Rovio or CCP kill Microsoft or Google?

When you think about who might topple a software giant like a Microsoft or a Google, you might be inclined to think of Goliaths like, well Google and Microsoft. The same is true of any industry, you probably think of a company of similar size or larger as being the type of company that would …

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2010/12/132010/12/13

Reference: Empire of Lies & Secrecy

Robert David Steele Comprehensive Architect, Prime Design Posted: December 11, 2010 09:11 PM Empire of Lies & Secrecy Ron Paul, in a short general speech before Congress, carried on C-SPAN and now on YouTube, defended the public service nature of the recent Wikileaks revelations, and asked nine questions. I thought to provide those questions here …

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2010/12/122011/02/13

Who’s Who in Cultural Intelligence: Jon Lebkowsky

Jon’s bio is under the photo. He is one of the originals, including a book co-edited with Mitch Ratcliffe (a co-founder of Earth Intelligence Network), Extreme Democracy (Lulu.com, 2004). Below is his latest update. Irons in the fire: Plutopia Productions projects are on fire… including the Plutopia 2011 event during SXSW and the Plutopia News …

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