Berto Jongman: Anonymous to Leak “Unprecedented Amounts of Data” — Project Mayhem

Anonymous to Leak “Unprecedented Amounts of Data” Starting with December 10 – Video Starting with December 10 and until December 21, Anonymous hacktivists plan on leaking “an unprecedented amount” of corporate, financial, military and state data as part of the campaign called Project Mayhem 2012. According to the hackers, the information has been secretly gathered …

Richard Stahlman: Free Software Supporter Issue 56

Free Software Supporter Issue 56, November 2012 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 64,307 other activists. That’s 1,124 more than last month! View this issue online here: http://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2012/free-software-supporter-issue-56-november-2012 Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience …

Practical Reflections on United Nations Intelligence + UN RECAP

Updated 21 Dec 2012 1800 Short Persistent URL for This Post: http://tinyurl.com/UN-21-Intel DOCUMENT:  2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012 I had occasion to look at the Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization, and thought this would be a good time to integrate some of what I have …

2012 Robert Steele: Addressing the Seven Sins of Foreign Policy — Why Defense, Not State, Is the Linch Pin for Global Engagement

Short Persistent URL: http://tinyurl.com/Kerry-Flournoy I wrote this with John Kerry and Michele Flourney in mind, but regardless of who is eventually made Secretary of Defense, the core concept remains: the center of gravity for massive change in the US Government and in the nature of how the US Government ineracts with the rest of the …

DefDog: Wired on NYPost Being Retarded – Homework in Class on Terrorism a Threat to National Security – Comment by Robert Steele

NY Post Pisses Its Pants Over Terrorism Homework; And You Should Too Ryan Singel WIRED, 29 October 2012 The New York Post is quivering in fear and outrage over a graduate level course for intelligence analysts that requires students to write a fake terrorism plot, complete with methods of execution, sources of funding, number of …

Patrick Meier: Social Media and Hurricane Sandy – Creative Mash-Ups, Twitter Peer-Review in Real Time to Sort Fake from Real

What Was Novel About Social Media Use During Hurricane Sandy? Posted on October 31, 2012 We saw the usual spikes in Twitter activity and the typical (reactive) launch of crowdsourced crisis maps. We also saw map mashups combining user-generated content with scientific weather data. Facebook was once again used to inform our social networks: “We are …