Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back British Foreign Fighters in Syria Democratization of Big Data Ethical Farming Ill-Equipped IT Managers Infrastructure Vulnerabilities Iraq Death Toll Based on Intelligence Lie(s) Modern Honey Traps: BBC Documentary Turkey blows Israel’s cover for Iranian spy ring

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.1

Al Qaeda Strategy in Syria Chile and UFOs CIA Staffing Levels — More People Doing Less Good Coalition to Safeguard Privacy (Canada) Computer Security Practices 101 Consumption the Ultimate Bubble Criminalizing Dissent (Globally)

Event: InfoWarCon 2014

Winn Schwartau Brings Back InfowarCon By: Anthony Kimery Homeland Security Today, 09/25/2013 A highly anticipated annual event for many years in the Washington, DC area, the InfowarCon conference is being resurrected by its founder, long-time cybersecurity authority, Winn Schwartau, who launched the event in 1994. Having recently re-acquired the successful conference after being encouraged to “notch …

Rickard Falkvinge: SWARM – Chapter 9 in The Tactical Manual to CHanging the World

Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Nine. Posted: 01 Oct 2013 04:37 AM PDT Swarm Management:  As much as people would like to disrupt the world by going their own way entirely, you cannot change an existing system without also becoming a little part of it in order to change it …

John Steiner: From Sanity Central on NSA and the Surveillance State

“The potential of the surveillance  state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell’s 1984, (said Guardian Editor) Alan Rusbridger . ‘Orwell could never have imagined this concept of scooping up everything all the time’. The NSA stories were ‘clearly’ not about totalitarianism, but an infrastructure had been created that could be dangerous if it fell …

Marcus Aurelius: N.S.A. Gathers Data On Social Connections Of U.S. Citizens

New York Times September 29, 2013 Pg. 1 N.S.A. Gathers Data On Social Connections Of U.S. Citizens By James Risen and Laura Poitras WASHINGTON — Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations …