Surveillance partner for NSA PRISM program, with Condoleeza Rice on its board. Stopped using DropBox due to ethical concerns years ago.
The post-Soviet era is and was not the end of history. Geopolitical competition exists as a human condition. Much of the "communist versus capitalist" competition that "justified" the Cold War, was actually just a…
They also don't/won't sell Chromecast product. This is the danger of vertical integration. Once upon a time the US government did built and used antitrust and antimonopoly legislation.
Seems punitive to me, rather than 'fair'. US copyright law has no jurisdiction the same as German copyright law, other than by coincidence of geography/volunteer base. I think Project Gutenberg is doing the best thing…
Except that they block world leaders (and other globally important actors) as requested by the US security/power community. PR. No thanks.
Military funded (DARPA's Social Media in Strategic Communication program) to develop the research necessary for running highly automated global-scale social network propaganda campaigns.
Coworker at Fortune 500 does this. Old housemate at different Fortune 500 did basically this (slept on the floor, only owned cardboard boxes, one week of clothes and a car). Both of these people are incredibly rich. One…
I would really like to know more about the involvement of the Stanford Research group in enabling these exploits. Speculating on a whim here, but it wouldn't seem like much research would be needed with the exception of…
"Yes, because we've totally just been nuking or threatening to nuke anyone who looked at us cross-eyed for the last few decades... /s Your nomenclature is a bit hyperbolic." Is quite clearly a strawman. > You're using…
Right, you've just reaffirmed what the parent poster said. The US reserves the right to use it's nuclear weapons in this way. But in no way is this the unique, most important, or most manifest reservation of nuclear…
That is not the US policy. The US policy is to use the threat of overwhelming force, nuclear and non-nuclear, for leverage in interstate conflict whatever that conflict may be and whether or not that conflict is a…
It's interesting. I did not mean this comment as criticism (as you suggest). I'm merely accounting that the point of the article ("in the 1950s, the US policies on use of nuclear forces was startling - to our…
First. Strawman. Not helpful. I actually lifted the nomenclature directly from National Security experts. I did not invent or distort any of the nomenclature. Further, it is a very accurate representation of the…
Yes official policy is important. This is for several reasons: 1. Official policy communicates expectations. Others derive their behavior from, in large part, the official positions of others. 2. Official policy…
The US continues, today, to be the only first-strike nuclear nation threatening to (as an explicit policy) destroy civilian population centers in a host of competitor countries as a coercive tactic and if and when it…
Had the exact same thought. The timing of the report is perfectly placed after the Russian president's most recent remarks and the Russian Congress's report on American influence efforts on Russia's elections. From the…
The important aspect for the NSA's interpretation is that algorithms can look at and process the data and create metadata or synopsis information from it. Having an intelligence system ingest this metadata and synopsis…
Yup. Regarding the differences it's important to both compare and contrast. The US likes to try to color Russian propaganda as "evil" or "illegitimate" or "propaganda based on lies" or some such other nonsense. There…
> To make it all equivalent is... Is your point that you think American propaganda is the truth and non-American propaganda are lies? I stand by our earlier sophisticated conversation about propaganda as influence and…
> I lie, you lie, what's the difference? Definitely not what I'm trying to say. > No, there is truth, it's something to strive for, and it makes all the difference. Absolutely. This requires that one does not take any…
This is what makes most propaganda devastating. What you are talking about is "white propaganda": telling the truth but in a manner that creates a useful perception. This is unfortunately the basis of most information…
I would agree with most of this, but add that the comment could very well be talking about US domestic propaganda and the falsehood narrative that "Russia is behind it." Essentially it's this: there are many narratives…
Hi! I'm the parent user you've implied may be a propagandist for Russia. Your comment does the following: * Create uncertainty. * Make many baseless claims in order to force others onto defense and occupy all their…
I wouldn't characterize everything-is-Russia complicity as an infosec community consensus. I'm in the infosec industry and disagree. In fact, my colleagues and coworkers tend to have far more nuanced and informed…
I've been following Bruce Schneier's blog for a long time. He is a decent cryptographer, and a notable personality and technical expert. He's very new to "geopolitics". In fact, he's published a number of corrections on…
Surveillance partner for NSA PRISM program, with Condoleeza Rice on its board. Stopped using DropBox due to ethical concerns years ago.
The post-Soviet era is and was not the end of history. Geopolitical competition exists as a human condition. Much of the "communist versus capitalist" competition that "justified" the Cold War, was actually just a…
They also don't/won't sell Chromecast product. This is the danger of vertical integration. Once upon a time the US government did built and used antitrust and antimonopoly legislation.
Seems punitive to me, rather than 'fair'. US copyright law has no jurisdiction the same as German copyright law, other than by coincidence of geography/volunteer base. I think Project Gutenberg is doing the best thing…
Except that they block world leaders (and other globally important actors) as requested by the US security/power community. PR. No thanks.
Military funded (DARPA's Social Media in Strategic Communication program) to develop the research necessary for running highly automated global-scale social network propaganda campaigns.
Coworker at Fortune 500 does this. Old housemate at different Fortune 500 did basically this (slept on the floor, only owned cardboard boxes, one week of clothes and a car). Both of these people are incredibly rich. One…
I would really like to know more about the involvement of the Stanford Research group in enabling these exploits. Speculating on a whim here, but it wouldn't seem like much research would be needed with the exception of…
"Yes, because we've totally just been nuking or threatening to nuke anyone who looked at us cross-eyed for the last few decades... /s Your nomenclature is a bit hyperbolic." Is quite clearly a strawman. > You're using…
Right, you've just reaffirmed what the parent poster said. The US reserves the right to use it's nuclear weapons in this way. But in no way is this the unique, most important, or most manifest reservation of nuclear…
That is not the US policy. The US policy is to use the threat of overwhelming force, nuclear and non-nuclear, for leverage in interstate conflict whatever that conflict may be and whether or not that conflict is a…
It's interesting. I did not mean this comment as criticism (as you suggest). I'm merely accounting that the point of the article ("in the 1950s, the US policies on use of nuclear forces was startling - to our…
First. Strawman. Not helpful. I actually lifted the nomenclature directly from National Security experts. I did not invent or distort any of the nomenclature. Further, it is a very accurate representation of the…
Yes official policy is important. This is for several reasons: 1. Official policy communicates expectations. Others derive their behavior from, in large part, the official positions of others. 2. Official policy…
The US continues, today, to be the only first-strike nuclear nation threatening to (as an explicit policy) destroy civilian population centers in a host of competitor countries as a coercive tactic and if and when it…
Had the exact same thought. The timing of the report is perfectly placed after the Russian president's most recent remarks and the Russian Congress's report on American influence efforts on Russia's elections. From the…
The important aspect for the NSA's interpretation is that algorithms can look at and process the data and create metadata or synopsis information from it. Having an intelligence system ingest this metadata and synopsis…
Yup. Regarding the differences it's important to both compare and contrast. The US likes to try to color Russian propaganda as "evil" or "illegitimate" or "propaganda based on lies" or some such other nonsense. There…
> To make it all equivalent is... Is your point that you think American propaganda is the truth and non-American propaganda are lies? I stand by our earlier sophisticated conversation about propaganda as influence and…
> I lie, you lie, what's the difference? Definitely not what I'm trying to say. > No, there is truth, it's something to strive for, and it makes all the difference. Absolutely. This requires that one does not take any…
This is what makes most propaganda devastating. What you are talking about is "white propaganda": telling the truth but in a manner that creates a useful perception. This is unfortunately the basis of most information…
I would agree with most of this, but add that the comment could very well be talking about US domestic propaganda and the falsehood narrative that "Russia is behind it." Essentially it's this: there are many narratives…
Hi! I'm the parent user you've implied may be a propagandist for Russia. Your comment does the following: * Create uncertainty. * Make many baseless claims in order to force others onto defense and occupy all their…
I wouldn't characterize everything-is-Russia complicity as an infosec community consensus. I'm in the infosec industry and disagree. In fact, my colleagues and coworkers tend to have far more nuanced and informed…
I've been following Bruce Schneier's blog for a long time. He is a decent cryptographer, and a notable personality and technical expert. He's very new to "geopolitics". In fact, he's published a number of corrections on…