Stuart Herrington: Snowden Unlikely to Wow Chinese — PBI Comment: A Self-Dangle? Or a Chinese IO Coup Recruited in Hawaii to Castrate Obama for Xi Meeting?

Why I don’t think Snowden is, or will become, a Chinese intelligence asset By Stuart Herrington Foreign Policy, 11 June 2013 Unless he was an asset of the Chinese or some other foreign intelligence service prior to “coming out” as he did, I don’t think it’s likely any foreign intel service is going to latch …

Berto Jongman: Overview of How NSA Can Socially Graph Anyone Into Virtual Nakedness — Always

How to Build a Secret Facebook By Alex Pasternack Motherboard, 10 June 2013 Since retiring from a three-decade career at the NSA in 2001, a mathematician named William Binney has been telling anyone who will listen about a vast data-gathering operation being conducted by his former employers. “Here’s the grand design,” he told filmmaker Laura Poitras last year. “You …

Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 62 May 2013

Free Software Supporter Issue 62, May 2013 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 68,736 other activists. That’s 268 more than last month! El Supporter en español se esta traduciendo. En los próximos dias estará disponible en: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2013/free-software-supporter-numero-62-mayo-2013 Para cambiar …

Berto Jongman: DARPA Weaponizes (Sort Of) the Internet — Has the Time Come to Close DARPA?

The article is long and certainly worth reading, with many links.  Below are two comments that capture the hacker view of this initiative. This Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar as Easy as Angry Birds By Noah Shachtman WIRED Magazine, 28 May 2014 Read full article. EXTRACT (Comments): BillStewart2012 ErikasBulbasaur • 3 days ago Yes, it’s the …

Information Operations Newsletter Vol. 13 No. 07

PDF: ARSTRAT_IO_Newsletter_v13_no_07 Articles in this issue are: 1. Social Banditry and the Public Persona of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán 2. India Sets Up Social Media Monitoring Lab 3. Hacking the News: Information Warfare in the Age of Twitter 4. Information Operations Is Just another Media Format Vying For the Eyes of the Audience 5. China’s …