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Troy Will Burn – the Big Deal about Big Data
Troy Will Burn – the Big Deal about Big Data I know, I know … I’m a broken record and a Cassandra, with 2 successive notes on Big Data. But I don’t care. This is a much larger structural risk for markets and investors than HFT and the whole Flash Boys brouhaha, it’s just totally under the radar and […]
Edward Snowden Calls Canadian Intelligence Oversight Among ‘Weakest’ In Western World
Edward Snowden Calls Canadian Intelligence Oversight Among ‘Weakest’ In Western World U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden criticized the inadequate oversight of Canada’s intelligence operations on Wednesday, calling its framework “one of the weakest” in the Western world. In a live chat moderated by CBC Radio host Anna Maria Tremonti, Snowden touched on the […]
Heroes and Villains
Heroes and Villains The poet W.B. Yeats was right in 1919 when he said the center cannot hold, as if, following the first great industrial slaughter of modern times, he discovered the lethal vacuum at the center of modernity itself. There was a lot to be nervous about after the First World War. And right […]
De-Dollarization Accelerates: Russia Launches SWIFT-Alternative Linking 91 Entities
De-Dollarization Accelerates: Russia Launches SWIFT-Alternative Linking 91 Entities Back in 2013, The NSA was first exposed for secretly ‘monitoring’ the SWIFT payments flows. This appears to have been among the last straws for Russia (and others) as far as both NSA spying and dollar domination. Last year, following threats to remove Russia from SWIFT by the UK, (which SWIFT […]
How the Powerful Try to Rule Through Cybersecurity
How the Powerful Try to Rule Through Cybersecurity Michael Daugherty is President & CEO of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory with a national client base. Daugherty exposes how business was cyber bullied by federal contractors in his book The Devil Inside the Beltway, He summarizes his incredible story below: …click on the above link to […]
Edward Snowden tells students mass data collection can hamper attempts to foil attacks
Edward Snowden tells students mass data collection can hamper attempts to foil attacks Video appearance of NSA whistleblower sparks debate at Upper Canada College U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower and international fugitive Edward Snowden told students at Upper Canada College that the mass collection of data by government spy agencies can get in the way of foiling […]
CANADA CASTS GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE DRAGNET OVER FILE DOWNLOADS
CANADA CASTS GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE DRAGNET OVER FILE DOWNLOADS Canada’s leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users’ file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents. The covert operation, revealed Wednesday by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept, taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to 15 million downloads daily […]
“Recipe for Disaster”: Canadian Government to Expand State Surveillance Powers (Again)
“Recipe for Disaster”: Canadian Government to Expand State Surveillance Powers (Again) The “spillover effects” of overbroad anti-terror legislation. We’ve long been lamenting the enormous and still utterly murky – despite the Snowden revelations – spy apparatus in the US that, in collaboration with Corporate America, stretches from many federal agencies to state and local agencies. It’s all there, […]
‘US government was subverting entire US constitution’ – NSA whistleblower
‘US government was subverting entire US constitution’ – NSA whistleblower Award winning whistleblower William Binney says his new job is to make the US government honest, make them face the truth publically, and to prevent further violation of the rights which America has never intended to stand for. The Sam Adams Award for Integrity and […]
Source Code Similarities: Experts Unmask ‘Regin’ Trojan as NSA Tool
Source Code Similarities: Experts Unmask ‘Regin’ Trojan as NSA Tool Earlier this month, SPIEGEL International published an article based on the trove of documents made available by whistleblower Edward Snowden describing the increasingly complex digital weapons being developed by intelligence services in the US and elsewhere. Concurrently, several documents were published as well as the source code of a sample […]
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 […]
