Stephen E. Arnold: Financial Warfare — China, Cyber, Russia, ATMs Down?

Financial Warfare: Another View of FinTech From an intelligence perspective, consider these questions: What’s the impact of the US printing dollars to cover Covid et al? What happens if China takes direct action to add Taiwan to its collection of entities? What happens if Russia annexes Ukraine? What happens if these events occur at the …

Stephen E. Arnold: Daily Mail, Google, Class, Power, and Incentives

The estimable Daily Mail is a newspaper. The owner of the Daily Mail is the Daily Mail and General Trust plc. The big dog at the outfit is The Fourth Viscount Rothermere. Titles are important in England. Crickets the game. “Plumby tones” was crafted to describe the accents some Americans long to have. Dim lights, …

Stephen E. Arnold: Update on Google banned words

Social media is combining algorithms that manipulate searches and polling results with Zionist-defined “hate speech” and related trolls attacking anyone daring to speak the truth about anything of substance; with dictionaries such as these that are nothing more or less that censorship guides — forbidden language, forbidden thought. See dictionary of words HERE

Stephen E. Arnold: Justice Thomas, Social Media, and Big Tech

Are social-media platforms more akin to telephone carriers or to conference halls? SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas likens them to the former, we learn from “Justice Thomas Argues for Making Facebook, Twitter and Google Utilities” at Protocol. On the other hand, TechDirt makes a solid, though snarky, argument that social-media companies are more like venues that …

Stephen E. Arnold: Facebook and Microsoft: Communing with the Spirit of Security

Two apparently unrelated actions by bad actors. Two paragons of user security. Two. Count ‘em. The first incident is summarized in “Huge Facebook Leak That Contains Information about 500 Million People Came from Abuse of Contacts Tool, Company Says.” The main point is that flawed software and bad actors were responsible. But 500 million. Where …

Stephen E. Arnold: The Google and Web Indexing: An Issue of Control or Good, Old Fear?

I read “Google’s Got A Secret.” No kidding, but Google has many, many secrets. Most of them are unknown to today’s Googlers. After 20 plus years, even Xooglers are blissfully unaware of the “big idea,” the logic of low profiling data slurping, how those with the ability to make “changes” to search from various offices …