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New Power is in Networks

There are many ‘coming of age’ moments for social media, Twitter is said to have ‘come of age’ during last years attempted Iranian counter-revolution, or Facebook ‘came of age’ during the 2008 US Presidential campaign .  However, the most telling connection of social networks, micro-payments and actual social movement was the [...]

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Filed under: Social Unrest — Tags: — Interrain @ January 6, 2010, 12:40 am

Climate Change as a Security Metric

As the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark approaches the debate about climate change will bounce to the front of the global agenda.  From a security perspective much attention will be given to the potential for protesters to make some kind of statement, even though 2009 has been the year when street activism [...]

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Filed under: Climate Change — Tags: , , , , , — Interrain @ November 5, 2009, 12:35 pm

Information War – this time its personal

The ongoing phishing attacks aimed at popular webmail applications are (amongst other things) a massive individualized reputation attack against the holders of those accounts. Friends, customers and contacts all read in bemusement as they receive emails requesting funds from previously trusted cohorts via the email addresses they have used to communicate with them for many [...]

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Filed under: Cyber Security — Interrain @ October 9, 2009, 5:09 pm

Bankrupt Revolution

So far, the traditional left-wing sources of resistance have been shown to be as bankrupt as the banks, which precipitated the crisis. It will be interesting to see what, if anything takes their place.

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Filed under: Social Unrest — Interrain @ September 18, 2009, 5:26 pm

Renting time on UAV’s

The recent edition of the Economist’s Technology Quarterly has a good round up of the expanding military use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s). One of the most arresting parts of the report deals with the growing demand for ‘renting time’ on UAV fleets. The impetus for this comes from the intelligence needs of [...]

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Filed under: Sensors, UAV — Interrain @ September 8, 2009, 3:52 pm

Spime Networks and the future of Intelligence Collection

We recently had the fortune to attend a seminar by David Orban on the ‘Internet of Things’ hosted by Singularity University at the NASA Ames Research Park. This subject is of deep interest with regard to the future collection of intelligence a fact acknowledged by the National Intelligence Council’s Disruptive Civil Technologies Conference (appendix F). [...]

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Filed under: Sensors — Interrain @ August 20, 2009, 10:56 pm

Hack-Jet: Losing a commercial airliner in a networked world

When there is a catastrophic loss of an aircraft in any circumstances, there are inevitably a host of questions raised about the safety and security of the aviation operation. The loss of Air France flight 447 off the coast of Brazil with little evidence upon which to work inevitably raises the level of speculation surrounding [...]

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Filed under: Air Security, Cyber Security — Interrain @ August 4, 2009, 11:35 pm