Recommended Reading & Viewing – Cyber Edition
* Employed an automated auditing system to monitor how analysts handled the information, in order to prevent misuse and improve efficiency.
* Analyzed the data to identify relationships between callers and chronicle their contacts. Only when evidence of a potential threat had been developed would analysts be able to request decryption of the records.
An agency spokesman declined to discuss NSA operations
Small Wars Journal – Bandwidth Cascades: Escalation and Pathogen Models for Cyber Conflict Diffusion
Adm. James Stavridis- The New Triad
WIRED –Introducing Aaron’s Law, a Desperately Needed Reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Bruce Schneier –Has U.S. started an Internet war?
Foreign Policy – TOTAL RECALL
New York Times –Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders
Ribbonfarm –War and Nonhuman Agency
Recommended Viewing:
Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn’t belong to a robot
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michael robinson:
June 21st, 2013 at 8:40 pm
This paper “Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility” published in March may be too technical for some, however the summary is helpful to the non mathematically inclined, in short only four different course data points on the time and location of calls are necessary to identify 95% of the people.:
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“We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human mobility traces are highly unique. In fact, in a dataset where the location of an individual is specified hourly, and with a spatial resolution equal to that given by the carrier’s antennas, four spatio-temporal points are enough to uniquely identify 95% of the individuals. We coarsen the data spatially and temporally to find a formula for the uniqueness of human mobility traces given their resolution and the available outside information. This formula shows that the uniqueness of mobility traces decays approximately as the 1/10 power of their resolution. Hence, even coarse datasets provide little anonymity. These findings represent fundamental constraints to an individual’s privacy and have important implications for the design of frameworks and institutions dedicated to protect the privacy of individuals.”
carl:
June 22nd, 2013 at 5:58 am
There is an upside to all this NSA incipient police state stuff. They are likely to become almost entirely dependent upon electronic monitoring to the extent they won’t be able to imagine anything else. So if you live the old fashioned way sans computers and cell phones, you might be close to invisible.
joey:
June 22nd, 2013 at 8:53 pm
Carl, I’ll console myself with that thought 🙂
Grurray:
June 23rd, 2013 at 10:10 pm
Carl, great, we’ll all be talking like Joe Pesce & Frank Vincent in Casino.
According to IBM
90% of all the data in the world was created in the last two years.
90% of all the knowledge in the world was not
It would be worthwhile to figure out the real value (or lack of) of all this pervasive magnitudism and come up with a better solution