by Joseph Forbes | Feb 5, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the hope-the-repository-doesn’t-go-down dept. Aeon Magazine ran a longform critique of Open Source politics last week titled ‘Open Sesame: “Openness” is the new magic word in politics – but should governments really be run like...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 4, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
from the oh-don’t-you-worry dept. Leading privacy expert Caspar Bowden, warned European citizens not to use cloud services hosted in the U.S. over spying fears. Bowden, former privacy adviser to Microsoft Europe, explained at a panel discussion hosted at the...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the go-big-or-go-home dept. An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from an article at Bloomberg giving an inside look at how the Libor scandal happened: “Every morning, from his desk by the bathroom at the far end of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the get-to-the-choppa! dept. Security pros and government officials warn of a possible cyber 9/11 involving banks, utilities, other companies, or the Internet, InfoWorld reports. ‘A cyber war has been brewing for at least the past year, and although you...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, POLITICAL
The only official punished for the illegal NSA program was the one who discussed it. The same is now true of torture by Glenn Greenwald The permanent US national security state has used extreme secrecy to shield its actions from democratic accountability ever since...
