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Welcome to the Security and Intelligence Twine. A general interest twine covering news, views and personal opinion regarding all security and open source Intelligence matters.
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This Twine is not constrained to any geographic area and is open to any and all all useful information on the subject matter, by default though many contributions will be UK and US centric...apologies in advance for this!
Other twines of potential interest in this area and well worth a look:
Terrorism,
Information Security,
Security,
Terrorism and the Internet,
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High-tech letdown: Somali pirates repelled by bullets, not soundwaves -- DailyFinanceWhen a powerful "sonic cannon" was not "effective" in repelling Somali pirates during a high-seas showdown Wednesday, armed guards successfully battled off the marauders the good old-fashioned way -- with firearms, said Vice Adm. William Gortney, who commands the Pacific region for the U.S. ...
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BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws - Boing BoingA source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen. Secretary of State Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now under debate in Parliament. These changes will ...
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U.S. Struggles with ‘Electronic Fratricide’ in Afghanistan | Danger Room | Wired.comIn Afghanistan, western militaries use radio frequency jammers to keep troops safe from remotely-detonated bombs. But those jammers and other gadgets have contributed to a “pollution” of the airwaves so severe that over 200 systems at Afghanistan’s main air base can’t talk to one another. This ...
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F-35B: World's first supersonic jump jet tests its weird capabilities | DVICEThere are plenty of supersonic fighter jets, and there's no shortage of jump jets either, those Harrier planes that can take off and land vertically. But the subsonic Harriers are about to be surpassed, because here comes the world's first supersonic jump jet, the F-35B Lightning II. It's the ...
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Cryptographic voting debutsLast week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT’s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, helped develop the system and says he’s quite pleased ...
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1Climate Change About National Security, Not Just Hugging Trees -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisDUH! Mainly Repbulicans (but also many Democrats) serving their corporate energy company masters have for years "buried their heads in the sand" about this. If we had reduced or eliminated our dependence on foreign oil as Jimmy Carter urged and attempted to implement (torpedoed by the Saudi's ...JDP added 7 days ago
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1IEEE Spectrum: British Government: We Want Access to Your Every Phone Call, Email and Web SearchIt didn't happen in Britain in 1984; but 2084 may have seen it long since implemented.JDP added 9 days ago
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1NYT: Battle disaster review sways war strategy - The New York Times- msnbc.comDare one say that even the US military is now concluding "it takes a [trusting] village" as well "nation building" via civilian engagement and protection. Once again, previous the glib and rancorous objects by "conservatives" and Republicans in this regard are being proven wrong and rejected ...JDP added 6 weeks ago
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1Scary animation of 9/11 jet impact reveals truth | DVICE"You KNOW", when someone terms them self something outrageous or categorical ("freedom fighters", "the moral majority", "truthers", "the defense department"), quite often they aren't (or won't be for long!).JDP added 2 months ago
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1Senate ups ante on whether to build more F-22s - Yahoo! NewsYou know, unwanted, unneeded, hardly or never working "defense" project have LONG been the CONTINUING "stimulus" package of choice in Congress. Few have fought against that; and their total cost DWARFS the "awful Obama" stimulus package.JDP added 4 months ago
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