The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Cyber Deterrence against China? The only route left is an Open Source Approach Is there a way to deter cyber attacks? Yes. Two ways. One takes a moral high ground. I won’t waste any time discussing that option. Why? After flame/stuxnet, and the unilateral escalation of the cyberweapons arms race by the US, that option …
Life in a Networked Age Posted: 18 Feb 2013 12:11 PM PST Here’s some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter. To access it, let’s make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate. A technological substrate is the family of related …
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What Democracy Lost in 2012 No matter the outcome, big money and voter suppression crippled the election. This is no way to run the world’s oldest democracy. Bob Moser American Prospert, January 28, 2013 Last November 7, a syndicated cartoon made the rounds in progressive circles. Drawn by Signe Wilkinson, it showed a battered, bruised, …
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Recommended reading. An anthropologist explains how hackers are changing the definition of freedom David Hutchinson Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, by E. Gabriella Coleman, dives into the ocean of software hacking: its culture, personalities, and craft. But it’s also a legal history of hacking (modifying code) and cracking (illegally modifying code). Working …
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Fact-Checking the CIA’s Fact-Check on ‘Zero Dark Thirty By J.K. Trotter | The Atlantic Wire – Fri, Dec 28, 2012 “The CIA is a lot different than Hollywood portrays it to be,” reads an official explainer issued today by the Central Intelligence Agency — a thinly veiled attempt to continue debunking Zero Dark Thirty, the controversial Oscar favorite that …
ARSTRAT_IO_Newsletter_v13_no_03 Table of Contents: 1. Why Your Intuition about Cyber Warfare is Probably Wrong 2. Pentagon Drops ‘Strategic Communication’ 3. European Renewable Power Grid Rocked By Cyber-Attack 4. China’s Growing Military Might Obscures the Real Threat of Cyberwar 5. US Official: North Korea Likely Deceived US, Allies Before Launching Rocket 6. Cyber’s Next Chapter: Penetrating …
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