terrorism the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear – terrorism at Princeton WordNet An inundation of epiphytotics represents a far more potent and lasting threat than [...]

Another addendum to the 7/13/2009 Civilian Information Networks as Weapons and Intelligence post – Don’t blow your cover like the head of the British MI6…

An addendum to my prior post regarding Civilian Information Networks as Weapons and Intelligence should duly include a reference to additional evidence of Iran’s leverage of information networks against its citizens. In commenting upon the potentially-positive aspects of mass surveillance, Sherri Davidoff, an independent security consultant, has this to say: Here’s an e-affirmative action proposal: [...]

Activities conducted on information networks have a proven history of potentiating real-world violence: the internet is no different, though the ways in which civilians – often unwittingly – participate represent new threats to individual and national security. Consider the vast amount of information you’ve willingly provided to a corporate-owned Human Terrain Mapping System, a recent [...]

Rupert Murdoch‘s credible and upstanding News Corporation (proud owner of such trustworthy outlets as Fox News) seems to have a penchant for “digging deep” to get scandalously-entertaining information: According to one source with direct knowledge of the Scotland Yard evidence, News of the World journalists were systematically using private investigators who would break the law [...]

Definitely not me. This is me. I spent a couple days and nights in the woods. There was a revival – had to exercise some demons – and there were some auxiliary reasons for the shirt and tie, but it’s a long story… I’ll get around to explaining it (and putting up some more pictures) [...]