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    Security + Privacy = Liberty. And the CheapID / State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture **DEMO** is now online

    by  • September 29, 2007 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 1 Comment

    CheapID demo now online. You can go, you know, generate yourself a dodgy ID card, and get a real solid idea of what on earth all this Identity Services Architecture stuff is about. Note well, the code is flakey, your IDs will break every time I tweak the code, and this is a junky alpha. [...]

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    Redefining Readiness

    by  • September 22, 2007 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    The ever-helpful Lugon of the Flu Wiki, a site focussing on pandemic flu preparedness, pointed me at Redefining Readiness, which is a study about disaster response that actually, you know, asked members of the public what they would actually do in a disaster, and why. Needless to say, the results pose some interesting questions for [...]

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    Wow.

    by  • September 21, 2007 • The Global Picture, Trivia and Media • 2 Comments

    I checked out Viridari’s Blog in response to a comment here, and found this gem: Now, on so many levels, you can see how close we are to a total collapse of the current value system. Hippies marching under the pledge of allegiance buffaloing confused small town cops with by the sound of the tape, [...]

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    How young America is

    by  • September 19, 2007 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    “We’re new at this,” Weiner continued. “Sixty years is not a lot of time. The Chinese have been at this for 2600 years, the British for 500. And we’re just getting our feet wet, really, in the business of international espionage.” Tim Weiner on the CIA. Haven’t read the book, but that insight is worth [...]

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    My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper is now online!

    by  • September 14, 2007 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture – fifty pages of brain-breaking Gupta-at-his-finest assault on business as usual thinking about biometrics and liberty. From the abstract: State In A Box presents a coherent vision of overhauling the fundamental assumptions made about nation state infrastructure to enable breakthroughs in SSTR functions. The Identity Services Architecture [...]

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    New generation solar technologies report

    by  • September 13, 2007 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    If you’re coming from Worldchanging, the post with Alex and I discussing long term prospects for cheap solar, and the likely impacts, is here: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000510.html So, there’s basically three or four ways of doing this I’ve been able to track down. There’s the self-assembling paint on or printable panels coming out of New Jersey: Mitra [...]

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    Over on GuptaOption.com

    by  • September 8, 2007 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    Winning the Long Peace – the future of the nation state in the age of disaggregation. America has to choose one of three paths: surrender our position of military preeminence, or continue to maintain it with no mandate from global citizenry and wind up surrounded by enemies, or find a way to legitimize that position [...]

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