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2013/07/072013/07/07

Berto Jongman: 20 Years Late, Council on Foreign Relations Has a Stab at Thinking About Cyber + Cyber Meta-RECAP

Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet Overview This CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force warns that “escalating attacks on countries, companies, and individuals, as well as pervasive criminal activity, threaten the security and safety of the Internet.” The number of “state-backed operations continues to rise, and future attacks will become more sophisticated and disruptive,” argues …

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2013/07/05

Q&A: Juan Enriquez, futurist, on bio-economics — bio-strategy still silent…

Q&A: Juan Enriquez, futurist, on the intersection of science, business and society Christina Hernandez Sherwood | July 1, 2013 Growing up in Mexico, Juan Enriquez didn’t consider new discoveries and scientific innovations particularly important. But now, after a circuitous route from a student at Harvard University to a Mexican peace negotiator and back to Harvard as …

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2013/07/052013/07/05

Rickard Falkvinge: NSA is Stasi Scaled Global + Naked NSA RECAP

Stasi vs. The NSA Back To Back: Who’s Worse – A Visual Guide Privacy: If you were to compare the evil, reprehensible Stasi to the NSA side by side in a visual comparison, who’s the worse surveillance hawk? The people over at OpenDataCity have put together a nice visual guide with astonishing results. We tend …

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2013/06/272013/06/27

John Robb: The Produce It Yourself (PiY) Revolution – A World of Abundance

The PiY Revolution. A World of Abundance. Here’s some advice you don’t hear often: Use all the energy, water, and food you desire. No really. Do it. However, there is one catch. In order to follow this advice, you will need to Produce it Yourself (PiY). Produce it where you live. Grow the food. Generate …

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2013/06/222013/06/22

John Robb: Every Person Must be Considered a Potential Terrorist — Local to Global Education, News, and Social Media Must be Controlled (Satire)

Positive Control When something is very dangerous, like nuclear weapons, standard forms of protections and control methodologies aren’t sufficient. Something that potentially dangerous needs something more aggressive. In the military, that’s called positive control. Positive control is an active form of control where the dangerous item is under 24x7x365 monitoring, checking, patrolling, testing, etc. In …

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2013/06/222013/06/22

Tom Atlee: Nothing to Hide? NSA Can Still Strip Search You Electronically…

Navigating a Web where “nothing to hide” doesn’t help you or democracy be safe Having nothing to hide is no guarantee of avoiding trouble due to NSA surveillance, which can create an environment of fear, a suppression of cultural creativity, and opportunities for politically targeted suppression, generally degrading democracy. The erosion of privacy can be …

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