The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Here is a presentation by David Eaves (from three years ago), on the importance of collaboration, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills for successful free and open source software and content projects (as well as the need for better on-line tools to support all that): “Community Management Presentation” His key point is that “facilitation” (enabling the …
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Operation Shady Rat. Sustained, silent, IP theft from 70 organizations across 14 countries. More. What we have witnessed over the past five to six years has been nothing short of a historically unprecedented transfer of wealth — closely guarded national secrets (including from classified government networks), source code, bug databases, email archives, negotiation plans and exploration details …
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Cofer Black Says Threat Posed by Hackers Same as Pre-9/11 Terrorism Public Intelligence Net, 4 August 2011 not to be confused with Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog Ex-CIA official sounds alarm about hackers’ next targets (CNN): The former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center raised concerns Wednesday about an impending “code war” in …
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This is interesting! The New Media Literacies EXTRACT (12 Literacies) 01 Play: the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving. Having a strong sense of play can be helpful when you pick up a new piece of technology that you’ve never used before, when you’re trying to write an essay and your …
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Is it possible the good guys are going to win the issue of over-classifcation? Can a real Open Source Agency (OSA) become the new face of strateic intelligence? Complaint Seeks Punishment for Classification of Documents By SCOTT SHANE New York Times, August 1, 2011 EXTRACT Under the executive order governing classification, the punishment could include …
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There are numerous misleading and misinformed assertions being made about the defense spending parts of the debt deal. The White House’s “fact sheet” asserts a $350 billion savings in the “base defense budget.” The $350 billion in defense savings that the White House declares apparently uses a different “baseline” (basis of comparison) and pretends that a …
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Sunday, 31 July 2011 JOURNAL: Rumored US DoD Cuts Here’s what is circulating (assuming this budget impasse can be resolved, it gets more severe if it isn’t): DoD to cut $800 billion over 4 years. $200 billion a year out of a $600 b budget. 3 government employees must retire/leave before any new hire is …
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