The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Trusted Computing Must Repudiate The NSA – Forbes Trust is fragile and the decade long effort on the part of the NSA to compromise all security models has destroyed trust. From its inception the coalition of industry giants who have backed the concept of hardware-based security, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), have been at odds …
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2014 Cyber-Security Predictions [8 certain mistakes] FBI’s Threat Statement to Congress Phi Beta Iota: Nothing on financial crime (Wall Street), crimes against humanity (pedophilia), or traitors among us. FBI continues to serve as the protective agency for those committing high crimes and misdemeanors against the public interest. GAO: TSA Program Not Effective HAMR: Increasing Disk …
Google Bans Israeli Babylon Internet giant Yahoo! announced on November 10, 2013, that it won’t end its revenue sharing contract with Israeli Babylon, despite Google terminating its similar contract on November 30. Google provided above 40% of Babylon’s revenues during the second quarter of 2013; Yahoo! provided over 30%, which amounts to almost $20 million. …
CAPTCHA kaput? Software cracks “are you human” test An artificial intelligence company says their algorithm can solve CAPTCHAs — those distorted jumble of letters used to prove you’re not a bot — with 90 percent accuracy. By Janet Fang Massive underwater tunnel now links Europe and Asia by rail A new transit system in Turkey …
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Hothouse innovation redux: The world “upside down” Recently The Economist released a feature report on how innovation in emerging markets may be eclipsing innovation in North America. The report, The world turned upside down (click “Buy PDF” for a complimentary copy courtesy of BASF) reinforces the fact that globalization and disruptive innovation is no longer …
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Forking Google: The Future of Fone Flaps I read “Samsung Is Pulling Another Amazon on Android, But This Is Even Bigger.” I liked the write up. It acknowledges in a semi-nice way that Google is either smarter than everyone else or Google is less smart than everyone thinks. The idea is that open source Android …
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I loathe Wikipedia. I fought for months through their arcane rules to have a mass of misinformation about myself and my work deleted. And many of my friends and colleagues tell similar stories. Nothing that has anything to do consciousness research can trusted to be accurate on Wikipedia. In fact there is a group called …
