SmartPlanet: Goodbye ‘information economy’; hello ‘hacker economy’

Goodbye ‘information economy’; hello ‘hacker economy’ By Joe McKendrick | February 3, 2013, 9:09 AM PST By now, the term “information economy” has been beaten to death. Now, we may be moving into a new realm one observer calls the “hacker economy.” That’s the word from Greg Satell, who suggests that we’re evolving beyond the …

Secrecy News: Army Manual on Inform & Influence — Still Retarded, But Small Signs of Progress

ARMY MANUAL HIGHLIGHTS ROLE OF “INFORM AND INFLUENCE ACTIVITIES” The use of information-related tools to support military operations and to help shape their outcome is discussed in a newly updated Army manual on what are now called “Inform and Influence Activities.” Inform and influence activities (or IIA) refers to “the integration of designated information-related capabilities …

Rob Dover: Intelligence Failures in Syria & Algeria — Is Open Source Everything an Alternative? Steele Comments

Syria, Mali, Algerian gas-works and ‘Open Source Everything’ Read any government security document, any of the national security strategies produced by a now large number of states and you will get a feel for the proliferation in the number of threats they feel they face. The preamble will normally contain a paragraph explaining that after …

2013 Robert Steele on Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency — and Integrity; Dicho Sobre la Curacion de las Américas con una Agencia de Todo Abierto – y la Integridad 1.7

BRIEFING (PPT) with Words in Notes Format:  Steele Healing Americas 1.7 URL corto para esta entrada:  http://tinyurl.com/IADB-Abierto Short URL for this post:  http://tinyurl.com/IADB-Open Watch Advance Informal Version of Briefing (Open Slides in Another Window First)   Vea tambien: 2011: Inteligencia Empresarial y Estrategia Competitiva en Mercados Internacional – Contexto y Desafio [Commercial Intelligence and Competitive …

Search: bibliography for osint (new master list of archive link tables and directory entry points)

OSS.Net Library Sortable Table of Contents 1.2 Sorted by Focus Author Year 1988-2009 OSINT-M4IS2 TECHINT Chronology Academic Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006) Analysis Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006) Budget Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006) Commerce Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006) Golden Candle & Platinum Lifetime Awards (1992-2006) Geospatial Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006) Government Archive …

John Steiner: Idle No More — Indigenous Uprising Sweeping Across North America?

Idle No More: Indigenous Uprising Sweeps North America Idle No More has organized the largest mass mobilizations of indigenous people in recent history. What sparked it off and what’s coming next? It took weeks of protests, flash mobs, letters, rallies, and thousands of righteous tweets, but Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally caved. He agreed …