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2013/12/142013/12/14

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Takes Possession Of and Gets Ready to Charge for Images

Google and Images for Email: A Different View, Very Different I have watched the comments about Google’s decision to cache images. A notable “this is what those guys are doing” appears in “Gmail Blows Up E-Mail Marketing by Caching All Images on Google Servers.” The focus is on the tracking function that e-mail marketers and …

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2013/12/102013/12/10

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.1

Checkbook Journalism – Leaking to Highest Bidders (Sibel Edmonds) Contra-Cocaine Scandal – New Evidence (Robert Parry) Counterinsurgency by Interventionist States (Small Wars Journal) Cyber Attacks — Top Five in 2013 Dutch SIGINT Evaluation Report (mrkoot) European Global Strategy: Six Problems Future of Privacy Amidst Total Surveillance (Timothy Mack) Future of (Total) Surveillance (Dick Pelletier) Invisible …

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2013/12/062013/12/06

Patrick Meier: Humanitarian Response in 2025

Humanitarian Response in 2025 I’ve been invited to give a “very provocative talk” on what humanitarian response will look like in 2025 for the annual Global Policy Forum organized by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in New York. I first explored this question in early 2012 and my colleague Andrej Verity recently …

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2013/11/282013/11/28

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

CYBER: Angela McKay (Microsoft Advsior to Obama) on Cyber-Security in 2020 Phi Beta Iota: The idea of Microsoft advising anyone on cyber-security is beyond tragic comedy and borders on insane. These are the same people who opened up everything to NSA and created “trusted” hardware standards totally lacking in integrity at any level. CYBER: Bitcoin …

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2013/11/272013/11/27

Steve Aftergood: HPSCI Seeks Continuous Monitoring of Security-Cleared Employees [We Do NOT Make This Stuff Up!]

HPSCI Seeks “Continuous Evaluation” of Security-Cleared Employees Recent unauthorized disclosures of classified information might have been prevented if U.S. intelligence agencies “continuously evaluated the backgrounds of employees and contractors,” according to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). In its new report on the FY 2014 intelligence authorization bill, the Committee would require intelligence …

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2013/11/27

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

9 Challenges Facing Journalism 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel ACTIVISM: Anti-Drone Movement BIG IDEAS: Bitcoin Economy BIG IDEAS: Digital Privacy Resolution from United Nations BIG IDEAS: Earth Is A Machine BIG IDEAS: Learning Through Interesting Imagery BIG IDEAS: Post-Human Future? BIG IDEAS: Vaclav Smil on Reality (Bill Gate’s Favorite Author) CYBER: App Generation CYBER: …

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2013/11/252013/11/25

Patrick Meier: Combining Radio, SMS, and Advanced Computing for Disaster Response

Combining Radio, SMS and Advanced Computing for Disaster Response I’m headed to the Philippines this week to collaborate with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on humanitarian crowdsourcing and technology projects. I’ll be based in the OCHA Offices in Manila, working directly with colleagues Andrej Verity and Luis Hernando to support their …

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