The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How ‘rebel’ phone network evaded shutdown Telecoms engineers in eastern Libya have managed to outwit government moves to sever the region’s communications. Al Jazeera, Evan Hill, 23 April 2011 Tip of the Hat to Colin Hawkett at Google Group Next Net. Phi Beta Iota: Riveting story with key lessons learned for all other future rebel …
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Introducing MondoNet: The censor-proof, unsurveillable network Aram Sinnreich A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at TEDxUSC, in which I laid out the basic argument for MondoNet, a new project I’m working on with a few of my grad students at Rutgers. My basic point is that, despite the many amazing cultural, economic and political uses …
Phi Beta Iota: An interested group of funders who approached Earth Intelligence Network asked the obvious question: why isn’t the US Government doing this? Where is public diplomacy, covert action, soft war, and so on? Our answer was straight forward: the US Government does not want to liberate peoples, it chooses instead to spend borrowed …
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Ayn Rand is back. Between my persistent search for a home for the Open Source Agency and the related Multinational Decision-Support Centre and World Brain Institute (with Global Game), I read and visit with smart people. As most know, the global fight that I have led since 1988 for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) has evolved …
Houston grandmother Leticia Aguirre began hosting what’s believed to be the nation’s first residential “Super Wi-Fi” hot spot this month. Super Wi-Fi, a long-range, wall-piercing version of Wi-Fi that is broadcast on unused TV channels, could be a boon for both rural and urban residents who lack broadband access. Credit: Jade Boyd/Rice University When the …
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Preliminary List of Stakeholders Appropedia Brave New Software Creative Commons Electronic Frontier Foundation Free Network Movement Free Software Foundation FreedomBox Future Forward Institute New America Foundation Open Source Ecology P2P Foundation Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium Tor Project Anonymnity Online Unhosted–Open Web Standard for Decentralizing World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Phi Beta Iota: We disagree on …
How is SSL hopelessly broken? Let us count the ways Blunders expose huge cracks in net’s trust foundation By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author Posted in Security, 11th April 2011 03:00 GMT Phi Beta Iota: Instead of spending $12 billion on cyber-attack and trying to defend 1970’s technology created by …
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