Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda Jeff Jarvis: Washington shows the morals of a clumsy spammer Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain The Guardian, Thursday 17 March 2011 "The multiple persona contract is thought to have been awarded as part of a programme called Operation Earnest Voice (OEV), which was first developed in Iraq as a psychological warfare weapon against the online presence of al-Qaida supporters and others ranged against coalition forces. Since then, OEV is reported to have expanded into a $200m programme and is thought to have been used against jihadists across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East."
Petra Sorge, Cicero Weltbühne 15 Maj 2014: "Indeed, Edward Snowden would not have been able to escape his Russian asylum in order to go to Stockholm. However, his invitation would have been a symbol. With a little imagination the hosts could have included him anyway. The German NSA parliamentary committee is currently discussing a video interrogation. Snowden has already answered questions posed by the European Council via a live broadcast; that was also the way he chose to spoke to participants of a tech festival in Texas. Sweden could also have allowed Snowden’s confidantes to speak for him. That’s what other hosts of large computer and internet conferences have recently done. The Net Mundial in São Paulo, Brazil, chose a live broadcast with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, hacker Jacop Appelbaum was there personally. The Chaos Communication Congress had Glenn Greenwald speaking via video. Appelbaum and Harrison spoke there too, as well as at Berlin’s re:publica."
By Jeremy Hsu, Posted 14 Mar 2014 "We should be more concerned about bullets than bytes at this time," Bumgarner says" "Hacker groups will do what they will outside of government control. But the Georgia incident and the more recent Ukrainian incident suggest that Russia has shown great restraint in its strategic use of cyber attacks, Bumgarner says."
Cognitive Design 2005 @mprove Technological Dreams & Nightmares – An Outlook To The (Near) Future Hermann Maurer, Professor at the Technical University of Graz, Director IICM & Chairman Hyperwave Inc. Memory, Plato etc ca 23 min into the video "what we really have to think about is not how we learn but whnhat we should learn" "we are on very shake grounds
Sweden will soon hold the Stockholm Internet Forum to discuss global development and global surveillance. The forum will open on 26 May and will be held in the famed Stadshuset, site of the annual Nobel banquet. The motto of the conference will be 'Internet Freedom for Global Development'.
Netnod manages i.root-servers.net, one of the 13 logical Internet DNS root name servers. i.root-servers.net was the first DNS root server to be established outside the USA. (Today there are also DNS root servers operating from Amsterdam and Tokyo.) It has changed configurations a number of times during the years from its humble beginnings as a Sun 3/60 with 4MB RAM.
By Primavera De Filippi , Wired 03.08.14 "As opposed to the other blockchain-based distributed applications described above — from messaging to contracts — Ethereum can be regarded as a kind of distributed operating system: a platform allowing for new applications to be developed upon it, so as to eventually create self-validating contracts and autonomous systems that operate directly on the blockchain."
Aftonbladet 17.5.2000: "Shirley MacLaine och Olof Palme under ett möte i Stockholm 1977 då de båda deltog i en tv-inspelning" (foto: Lennart Halvarsson)
Dan Åkerlund disputerar fredagen den 17 januari 2014 kl. 14 i Akademisalen, Academill, Strandgatan 2, Vasa. Opponent är professor Ola Erstad, Universitetet i Oslo, Norge och kustos är docent Anna Slotte-Lüttge, Åbo Akademi (jfr notis i ÖN 18.1.14)
Andreas Whittam Smith 16.12.10: comparison of of al-qaida and anonymous "it is global, it is networked and it is decentralised", but: "Anonymous seems to lack a command structure (al-Qa'ida "central", as it is known, undoubtedly does have one)" "Mr Bobbitt didn't feel the need to explain "informational", but the WikiLeaks publications of US State Department cables and the subsequent so-called cyber war show what he had in mind. Who controls information is now a central issue... Mr Bobbitt's larger point is that the terrorism of the age always closely reflects the existing constitutional arrangements."
Posted: 9 January 14 Martin Upchurch - WBC, Web-based communication - RFID armbands on workers - system for monitoring student performance (SIMS-schools information management system) - the Quantified Self movement whereby individuals constantly self-track their vital health signs - blogging about work - clicktivism
Nir Eyal 23.6.2012: “What people aren’t telling you,” Peter Thiel taught his class at Stanford, “can very often give you great insight as to where you should be directing your attention.” - "monetizable secrets" abt "user behavior", and network effects - "software continues to eat the world"
23 October 2013 By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Brazilian Minister of Communications Paolo Bernado Silva, during the opening session of this week’s 8th Internet Governance Forum in Bali, Indonesia, announced that the goal of the Internet Governance Summit in Brazil next spring will be to find a new model for internet governance.
Pamela Jones 20 August 2013: "The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. Oddly, if everyone did that, leap off the Internet, the world's economy would collapse, I suppose. I can't really hope for that. But for me, the Internet is over... So this is the last Groklaw article. I won't turn on comments. Thank you for all you've done. I will never forget you and our work together. I hope you'll remember me too. I'm sorry I can't overcome these feelings, but I yam what I yam, and I tried, but I can't. "
Zeynep Tufekci: "So, what’s the underling structure of the protests? It’s an increasingly tone-deaf, majority government who is relatively popular but is pursuing unpopular, divisive projects; an incompetent opposition; a cowardly, compliant mass media scene PLUS widespread, common use of social media."
April 8, HootSuite: First, Twitter disabled a feature that let Instagram users import followers automatically from Twitter. Instagram retaliated by cutting off the ability to share photos on Twitter. More recently, Facebook countered by blocking users of Twitter’s new Vine video-sharing service from accessing their Facebook friends list on the app." "Largely gone is the harmonious and open social ecosystem of yore. In its place: a balkanized social media landscape of splintered, siloed networks who just can’t seem to get along. For ordinary users and businesses, the prognosis isn’t good."
Blowing away the corporate-fueled smoke, McChesney breaks through with insights like these: " “Most assessments of the Internet fail to ground it in political economy; they fail to understand the importance of capitalism in shaping and, for lack of a better term, domesticating the Internet,” says Robert W. McChesney in his illuminating new book, Digital Disconnect." * “The corporate media sector has spent much of the past 15 years doing everything in its immense power to limit the openness and egalitarianism of the Internet. Its survival and prosperity hinge upon making the system as closed and proprietary as possible, encouraging corporate and state surreptitious monitoring of Internet users and opening the floodgates of commercialism.”
23 mai 2012, par Alain Garrigou: " une société privée espagnole basée à Barcelone gère l’ensemble du processus par son logiciel qui assure le vote, le décompte et la vérification. Sans qu’on puisse vérifier ses chiffres..."
in a Swedish book about libraries I found this reference to Vinton Cerf's lecture "The Future of Information and Communication Technology" However, the lecture is presented in a commercial format, which is not accessible with the web browser I use. I wish the new library of Alexandria would offer this lecture, and all web content, also in formats which are compatible and readable with open standards and free software.
"Thanks to Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, in 1949, when he published his degree thesis in Philosophy at the Papal Gregorian University of Rome, entitled “The Thomistic Terminology of Interiority”, father Roberto Busa could start his work. Index Thomisticus was completed just 30 years later, now considered an outstanding mileage in Informatics and computing in humanities"
8 december 2011. Carl Bildt på väg till NATO-konferens om Afghanistan och till följande konferens om nätfrihet. Idag 20 år sedan Belavezha-avtalen om Sovjetunionens upplösning. Assyrisk kommentar till bliogginlägget om oljan i Nineveslätten.
– Det pratas mycket om målet att 2015 skall bredband vara tillgängligt för alla, men för vår del är det orealistiskt. Men nu när vi sparkar i gång projektet själva så är det åtminstone delvis realistiskt. Det säger Isnäsbördiga Mia Aitokari, flitig mångsy