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AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #30-10 dated 10 August 2010

Section I – INTELLIGENCE HIGHLIGHTS Witness Says WikiLeaks Investigators Sought to Limit Disclosure Two Arrested After Explosives Sent to British Spy HQ Czech Military Intelligence Uncovered its Own Spies Iran ‘Spying Trial’ Opens in Kuwait Father of Internet Imam Plans to Sue CIA The Slow Revelation of Poland’s “CIA Detention Facilities” Senate Approves Honor for …

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Smartphone Money (AT&T,Verizon) & Global Currency (IMF) Weak Signals

AT&T, Verizon to Target Visa, MasterCard With Smartphones By Peter Eichenbaum and Margaret Collins – Mon Aug 02, 2010 AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile carriers, are planning a venture to displace credit and debit cards with smartphones, posing a new threat to Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., three people with direct …

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Twitter & SMS Used to Help Election in Kenya

How Twitter saved Kenya’s election Thu Aug 5, 2010 New York – Once again, social media has played a central role in a national election. During Kenya’s recent ballot initiative to adopt a new constitution, citizens used Twitter, along with Facebook and a new breed of monitoring technology, to help eliminate the voter intimidation, bombings, and deadly …

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Event: 3-5 Nov 2010, Barcelona Spain, Drumbeat Festival 2010: Learning, freedom and the web

The web is changing how we learn. It surrounds us with a massive and remixable tapestry of perspectives, facts and data. It gives us the freedom to learn whatever we want at our own speed and in our own way. It lets us become our own teachers. Fundamentally: the free and open nature of the …

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The 19 most influential cybersecurity organizations in the world (GAO)

The Government Accountability Office identified 19 global organizations “whose international activities significantly influence the security and governance of cyberspace.” The organizations range from information-sharing forums that are non-decision-making gatherings of experts to private organizations to treaty-based, decision-making bodies founded by countries. The groups address a variety of topics from incident response,  the development of technical …

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Review: Green Gone Wrong–How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution

Combines Holistic Thinking with Drill-Down Detail August 1, 2010 Heather Rogers This is a solid five in my view because the author goes beyond weaving a story about green gone wrong in three main areas (food, shelter, transportation), providing what almost all other books miss: the systems of systems “its all connected” and “what’s good …

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