• Archive for January, 2009

    More on the forensic camera concept

    by  • January 29, 2009 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments

    (via Woody) Bruce Sterling once said: “a G.I. Homeland-Security Cellphone could be a very capable and scary little object. If every American cellphone became a Black Box, a hardened recorder and camera, aimed, owned, and controlled by a citizen, that device would be the Minuteman rifle for modern netwar. They’re “wingless angels” already. With an [...]

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    The internet and politics – braindump for Eva Appelbaum (formerly of Amnesty International)

    by  • January 24, 2009 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    MP3 of an hour-long braindump on how the internet will affect global politics. There’s a lot of background noise on the recording unfortunately – the room had a lot more echo than it sounded like to me at the time. You’ll need headphones to get through this. A shame, really, it’s a good summary of [...]

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