Upping The Ante
Iran takes British sailors. USNews adds more fuel to the fire.
SEI + Superdistribution
Fred Wilson wants to empower individuals. I am all for any steps along that trajectory.
Internet Censorship Spreading
FT – Legacy system attempting to seal off the rising disruptive flat system –
Internet censorship is spreading rapidly, being practised by about two dozen countries and applied to a far wider range of online information and applications, according to research by a transatlantic group of academics.
US = Hacker Home
NF – More proof that internet enabled globalization is not necessarily a good thing. It is what is done with it.
While a recent report from Symantec competitor McAfee showed that Internet domains from Romania, Russia, and the tiny island of Tokelau were among the riskiest in relative terms, the Symantec report found that the U.S. is the source of about 31 percent of all malicious computer activity, beating China (7 percent) and Germany (7 percent).
As for servers used for buying or selling stolen personal information, 51 percent were located in the U.S.
Jamestown Gets TAZ’s
Jamestown – Littered with good bits about the black globalization, TAZ, open source warfare nexus –
Since headless, flat organizations and movements are difficult to destroy in the most open, accessible environments, the task becomes even greater in regions riddled with “black holes” where porous borders, swathes of ungoverned space, lawlessness and easy access to arms and illicit trade converge to create comparative advantages for terrorists seeking refuge and support mechanisms for operations and attacks [1]. These opaque corridors, coupled with information technology, afford ample space for jihadi “hubs” to move, nest and grow their networked infrastructure while retaining a quiet, threatening posture worldwide.