The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I am always amazed when people tell me IO doesn’t work and then I see things such as this….I guess what they are really saying is incompetence doesn’t work….. Kony 2012: The anatomy of a viral campaign Hayley Tsukayama Washington Post, 9 March 2012 A particularly savvy media campaign by a nonprofit group called Invisible …
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Australian spies buying computer bugs: sources Cynthia Karena Sydney Morning Herald, 8 March 2012 Cyber criminals are not the only ones buying software flaws, say sources. The Australian government is buying computer security weaknesses found by hackers before they are sold on the black market, as part of its defence strategy, claim those at the …
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Top LulzSec hacker was FBI informant Leader of Anonymous-linked group helped investigators to identify fellow hackers, as five others charged in New York. Read full story. Phi Beta Iota: The “estimates” of damages continue to be grotesquely inflated. The various governments continue to focus on enforcing archaic laws rather than demanding the upgrade of archaic …
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Trails of Trustworthiness in Real-Time Streams Real-time information channels like Twitter, Facebook and Google have created cascades of information that are becoming increasingly challenging to navigate. “Smart-filters” alone are not the solution since they won’t necessarily help us determine the quality and trustworthiness of the information we receive. I’ve been studying this challenge ever since the …
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The myths behind the spending — disavowed by true subject-matter experts, manipulated by the military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) to spend more on vaporware…. RSA Conference: On the Subject of Cyber War and Industrial Espionage Talk of an impending ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is not an uncommon image evoked during discussions of cyber threats to the critical infrastructure …
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Bruce Sterling talk at ATX Hackerspace I shot this video of Bruce at an EFF-Austin-sponsored event February 25 at ATX Hackespace. We were rallying the troops. “You will not have the Internet that you had 20 years ago, that’s not possible. But you don’t have to roll over at the site of bluster from the …
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ARSTRAT IO Newsletter v12 no 04 Table of Contents & Link to Other IO Newsletters Below the Line
