An Embarrassment of Riches
What?! Even you! I was eleven years old, just starting secondary school, when I first noticed a special type of behavior that I didn’t, and still don’t, like. At my old school, there were certain...
View ArticleSnowden Interview Part 2
Video recorded June 6th 2013. Snowden understood how apologists for the NSA and its collaborators would try to defend themselves: they would yell “traitor”, “extremist” while downplaying the truly...
View ArticleThe Fabulous Marconi
Snicker, snicker. Edward seems to be settling into Russian life, so it’s time for the Free World to roll up its sleeves and improve itself. I’ve stated before that the most important of Snowden’s...
View ArticleAbsolutions
I found this pair hiding under my bed. If you read this blog regularly, you’ll know I have an unorthodox take on the Snowden affair. In a nutshell, I believe the following: Snowden drew attention to...
View ArticleAbsolutions II
It was bad touch, your honor. This morning I saw that The Guardian has jumped on Jacob Appelbaum’s bandwagon with an editorial by Dan Gillmor titled: Google, Yahoo et al have the power (and money) to...
View ArticleIndexing Panopticon
Always with you, always watching. Thanks, Troglopundit. If you had 100 years worth of data on everybody, you’d have a problem because it’s difficult to make sense of all that info. You’d need some sort...
View ArticleSoft News Stories
Feel your IQ dropping? ZunZuneo, the Cuban ‘Twitter’, was one of many network-based tools which the US government used in hopes of destabilizing Havana. Some are still ticking over, like Martinoticias,...
View ArticleDeconfliction
The first time I heard the phrase ‘deconfliction team‘ was when it came out that the NSA was using online gaming forums, like those of the World of Warcraft (WoW), to identify people who hold...
View ArticleEleanor and ISIS
A lady of exploitable insecurities. A few days ago I read an article in Haaretz about young French girls being brainwashed into 1) joining jihad in Syria or 2) working for IS/ISIS/’Islamic State’....
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