Search Results for “Privacy” – Page 49

2013/12/312013/12/31

Julian Assange at Chaos Computing Conference — Calls on “Hacker Class” to Unite

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Calls on Computer Hackers to Unite Against NSA Surveillance WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed a major gathering of computer experts Monday at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, calling on them to join forces in resisting government intrusions on Internet freedom and privacy. We play highlights from Assange’s speech, as well …

Continue reading “Julian Assange at Chaos Computing Conference — Calls on “Hacker Class” to Unite”

2013/12/282013/12/28

Glenn Greenwald: Keynote at Chaos Communications (58:57) with Detailed Notes

6,000 watching in main room Notes below the line.

2013/12/272013/12/27

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Book: The Social Media Wars: Sunni and Shi’a Identity Conflicts in the Age of Web 2.0 and the Arab Spring Calamity Calling (Video on Climate Change) Cost of US Nuclear Program $35B/Year Facebook reveals human migration: London, Lagos and Istanbul are among the top places to relocate Metaphone — Why NSA does not need to …

Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff”

2013/12/26

Stephen E. Arnold: In the Cloud Big Data Meta Data Hack

Finally Some Cloudy News on Metadata For Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, his team broke down data silos and moved all the data to a cloud repository. The team built Narwhal, a shared data store interface for all of the campaigns’ application. Narwhal was dubbed “Obama’s White Whale,” because it is almost a mythical technology that …

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: In the Cloud Big Data Meta Data Hack”

2013/12/242013/12/24

Marcus Aurelius: Snowden Says “Mission Accomplished”

IMHO, Snowden needs to experience being the object of an “extraordinary rendition” and then be warehoused incommunicado at either GTMO or one of the Supermax facilities. Too bad that appears tactically infeasible at the moment. Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished By Barton Gellman Washington Post, December 23, 2013 Phi Beta …

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Snowden Says “Mission Accomplished””

2013/12/222013/12/22

OSINT Literature Review, Name Association, Lessons Learned

Tough love, this is. Lessons Learned from a 22 Year Fight: 01 Steele’s biggest mistake was in not ensuring OSS conference presentations were indexed in Conference Proceedings. Core value of presentation at International Studies Association (Intelligence) is that papers presented there are indexed and visible. 02 International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, American Intelligence Review, …

Continue reading “OSINT Literature Review, Name Association, Lessons Learned”

2013/12/19

Patrick Meier: Best 15 Blogs of the Year from iRevolution [Big Data, Crisis Mapping, Disaster Response, Truth, Trust, Twitter]

The Best of iRevolution in 2013 iRevolution crossed the 1 million hits mark in 2013, so big thanks to iRevolution readers for spending time here during the past 12 months. This year also saw close to 150 new blog posts published on iRevolution. Here is a short selection of the Top 15 iRevolution posts of 2013: