Berto Jongman: Russian Nonlinear War (“Gerasimov Doctrine”) — While US in Stuck in One Size Fits All Big War

Grading Gerasimov: Evaluating Russian Nonlinear War Through Modern Chinese Doctrine Victor R. Morris in Small Wars Journal, 17 September 2015 Unrestricted war is a war that surpasses all boundaries and restrictions. It takes nonmilitary forms and military forms and creates a war on many fronts. It is the war of the future. -Colonel Qiao Liang …

Event: 13-14 Nov NYC New School Platform Cooperativism – A Coming-Out Party for the Cooperative Internet

The internet is slipping away into commercial control. Here is an event to explore what are the alternatives for a people-owned internet … Platform Cooperativism A coming-out party for the cooperative Internet On November 13 and 14, the New School in New York City will host a coming-out party for the cooperative Internet, built of …

Antechinus: US Intelligence Chief a Cartoon Fantasy?

US intelligence based on a cartoon fantasy? Is this their answer to being called old porn queens by VICE? Spy Chief James Clapper Compares U.S. ‘Intelligence Community’ To Spider-Man “Spider-Man is known for his precognitive ‘Spidey Sense.’ Many of our customers expect us to be clairvoyant when it comes to world events,” Clapper said. RELATED: …

Berto Jongman: End-to-End Encryption and the Internet of Things

End-to-end encryption is key for securing the Internet of Things Securing the IoT begins with understanding why it requires a fundamentally different set of strategies and tools than those currently used in IT, telecom and other domains   . . .   SSL/TLS is not sufficient for small devices with the need to protect the data in …

Arno Reuser: OSINT Training in October

OSINT Pathfinder X Training Programme 6th – 8th October 2015, Novotel Hotel City Center, The Hague, The Netherlands Full three day OSINT training programme teaching participants professional Internet search techniques following the RIS OSINT Methodology: structured, planned and systematic research in Internet, Open Sources, using freely available tools and advanced search techniques. Building intelligent queries, …

Jean Lievens: OpenMinTeD Cross-Science Text and Data Mining

The next step in Open Science? Text and Data Mining! The new H2020 European project “OpenMinTeD” will be the first to build an infrastructure that makes it much easier to mine, by making existing text mining tools discoverable, interoperable and usable. The infrastructure brings together text and data registries/databases and will develop a standard layer, …