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Online partisan trolls a new fact of elections, international politics
Online partisan trolls a new fact of elections, international politics Some foreign governments are paying trollers to provide internet propaganda. Are political parties? It was the kind of story that was almost guaranteed to bring out the internet trolls. On April 15, Margaret Trudeau, wife of the late prime minister and mother of the current Liberal […]
Cyber-Attacks Are The New Cold War
Cyber-Attacks Are The New Cold War The Invisible Enemy Earlier this month President Obama declared foreign cyber-threats a “national emergency”. During the State of the Union address, he said that “if the US government does not improve cyber defenses, we leave our nation and our economy vulnerable”. This past weekend the TV program 60 Minutes ran […]
Inventor of Antivirus Sofware: The Government Is Planting Malicious Software On Your Phone So It Can Bypass Encryption and See What You’re Doing
Inventor of Antivirus Sofware: The Government Is Planting Malicious Software On Your Phone So It Can Bypass Encryption and See What You’re Doing Spy Agencies Are Intentionally Destroying Digital Security Top computer and internet experts say that NSA spying breaks the functionality of our computers and of the Internet. It reduces functionality and reduces security by […]
Police asked telcos for client data in over 80% of criminal probes
Police asked telcos for client data in over 80% of criminal probes Ottawa also sought legal advice on telco’s transparency reports Canadian police seek online and phone data from telecommunications companies in almost every criminal investigation, according to a briefing note to the federal minister for public safety, obtained by CBC News. The scale of the practice […]
Ukraine Blocks 10,000 Websites, Confiscates a Newspaper
Ukraine Blocks 10,000 Websites, Confiscates a Newspaper As I reported yesterday, the Security Bureau of Ukraine, on April 7th, had seized and disappeared two Odessa bloggers, who were trying to get an independent investigation, and ultimate prosecution, of the individuals who participated in the 2 May 2014 massacre of regime opponents, and who burned, shot, and […]
The Web: Destroyer or Savior of Culture, Pay and Employment?
The Web: Destroyer or Savior of Culture, Pay and Employment? The cost of creating and distributing content has fallen to near-zero, and that is not going away. Last month I explored the contentious question, Is the Web Destroying the Cultural Economy? In my recent video discussion with analyst Gordon T. Long, we expanded this question to pay […]
The Internet Of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Everyone And Everything Will Be Monitored On The Internet
The Internet Of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Everyone And Everything Will Be Monitored On The Internet Can you imagine a world where your home, your vehicles, your appliances and every single electronic device that you own is constantly connected to the Internet? This is not some grand vision that is being planned for some […]
The Net Neutrality Debate Proves The Opinions Are Far From Informed
The Net Neutrality Debate Proves The Opinions Are Far From Informed As many of you know the FCC approved what is now considered the greatest change in the fundamental underpinnings of how the internet will be both used as well as “allowed” to be used. The regulation now known as Net Neutrality will supposedly make the […]
The Troll’s Guide to Internet Disruption
The Troll’s Guide to Internet Disruption The 15 Rules of Web Disruption David Martin’s Thirteen Rules for Truth Suppression, H. Michael Sweeney’s 25 Rules of Disinformation (and now Brandon Smith’s Disinformation: How It Works) are classic lessons on how to spot disruption and disinformation tactics. We’ve seen a number of tactics come and go over the years. Here are […]
Is the Web Destroying the Cultural Economy?
Is the Web Destroying the Cultural Economy? Are we entering a cultural Dark Age, where the talented cannot earn a living creating culture? Longtime correspondent G.F.B. recently sent me this 13-minute Interview with Andrew Keen. This is my first exposure to Keen, and his view that the democratization of the Web is great for politics but a disaster […]
Birth of What Will Prove a Short Siege
Birth of What Will Prove a Short Siege I see with no surprise that Washington is stepping up its campaign to censor the internet. It had to come, and will succeed. It will put paid forever to America’s flirtation with freedom. The country was never really a democracy, meaning a polity in which final power […]
Feds Hold Hearing On Whether They Should ‘Regulate’ Sites Like Drudge, Infowars And The Economic Collapse Blog
Feds Hold Hearing On Whether They Should ‘Regulate’ Sites Like Drudge, Infowars And The Economic Collapse Blog The control freaks that run our government always seem to want to “regulate” things that they do not like. And so it should be no surprise that there is a renewed push to regulate independent news websites. Sites […]
The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle
The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle Normally, internship applicants need to have polished resumes, with volunteer work on social projects considered a plus. But at Politerain, the job posting calls for candidates with significantly different skill sets. We are, the ad says, “looking for interns who want to break things.” Politerain is […]
New Anti Terror Laws Coming After Attack On Charlie Hebdo
New Anti Terror Laws Coming After Attack On Charlie Hebdo Stephen Harper announced that an “international Jihadist Movement Has Declared War On The World”, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack in France. He also stated that new anti terrorism legislation would be introduced shortly after the House of Commons winter break. The Canadian […]
