China in particular is struggling to fight a looming overcapacity problem. “China alone is housing the largest power market investment bubble the world has ever seen,” observed Lauri Myllyvirta, senior global campaigner … Continue reading As Coal Use Drops, Investors Blow Nearly $1 Trillion Globally on Unnecessary New Plants
Everyone is now making vague noises about offshore tax havens and how they should be shut down, or regulated, or something. But the plain truth is that no one really wants to … Continue reading Everyone Is Freaking Out About the Panama Papers—But the Biggest Fallout Is Yet to Come
Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat and other companies are said to be in the process of making their apps more secure as a direct result of the FBI’s public battle with Apple. For … Continue reading FBI fight over iPhone becoming FBI’s worst nightmare
We have to be careful because this is how a police state develops. Continue reading Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism
“Ridiculously optimistic” machine learning algorithm is “completely bullshit,” says expert. Thousands of innocent people in Pakistan may have been mislabelled as terrorists by that “scientifically unsound” algorithm, possibly resulting in their untimely … Continue reading The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people | Ars Technica UK
The FBI has a lead. A prominent religious leader and community advocate is in contact with a suspected sleeper agent of foreign radicals. The attorney general is briefed and personally approves wiretaps … Continue reading What the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King says about modern spying.
Just saw this tweet today: It looks like it was made by a Redditer a little while back, with more info here. I like the way it stamps out the U in United. Continue reading If Pixar made NSA advertisements
Anyone can become a successful lock pick — with the right tools. For those of you wanna-be Edward Snowdens who may need to get into locked rooms to gather evidence to back up … Continue reading How to pick locks via the Business Insider
…News emerging from Paris — as well as evidence from a Belgian ISIS raid in January — suggests that the ISIS terror networks involved were communicating in the clear, and that the data on their smartphones was not encrypted. European media outlets are reporting that the location of a raid conducted on … Continue reading After Endless Demonization Of Encryption, Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinated Via Unencrypted SMS
US and European officials have been quick to indict technology for the attacks – although they have yet to show how, or if, technology contributed. CIA director John Brennan, whose own personal … Continue reading US and European officials reignite ‘back door’ encryption debate after Paris
Edward Snowden says that the most important aspect of social media is that you can get things out directly.– You can take the story and simply quote the relevant part, simply signaling … Continue reading Edward Snowden interview with Dagens Nyheter
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