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2017/04/012017/04/01

Hal Berghel: CIA & Cyber-Babble vs. Cyber-Attribution UPDATE 1

On the Problem of (Cyber) Attribution Is the recent report from the three-letter agencies on the alleged Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee evidence-based attribution or attributibabble? Attitudes and judgments have these biases baked into them. Failing to appreciate this simple fact allows all sundry forms of popular nonsense to remain unchallenged. Such is …

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2016/02/162016/01/26

Hal Berghel: Secretocracy

Secretocracy Hal Berghel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Secretocracy is an insidious, anti-democratic form of government sustained by secrecy and defined by an ill-informed body politic. Securocrats, and the military–industrial complex that feeds on them, increasingly use computing technology to prevent the electorate from accessing complete information. PDF (5 Pages): Secretocracy Full text below the …

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2015/03/192015/03/18

Hal Berghel: Executive Disorder Explained

Borderline Executive Disorder Ever wondered why really inept executivesseem to collect like lint at the top of modernorganizations? I have an explanation for yourconsideration. Incapable executives discover early on that their inflated self-image fails to be supported by reality. PDF (5 Pages): Borderline Executive Disorder

2015/02/20

Hal Berghel: Noirware – RFID/GPS

Noirware Are we just going to sit here while the unintended consequences of bad design wreak havoc on our lives? A retrospective about RFID creep and GPS abuse is called for. EXTRACT …absent a robust security model, commercial GPS is currently untrustworthy with no antidote on the horizon. PDF (6 Pages)

2014/09/17

Hal Berghel: Big Data is Big Doo Doo

Spy the Lie‘s techniue and informal logic work together to help us disinfect our infospheres from crap, bilious bombast, media-babble, disinformation campaigns, pseudoevents, and bad information of every stripe. These days common sense itself doesn’t cut it. We need tools! . . . . . . . In fact, we computing professionals have unwittingly made …

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2014/09/022014/09/02

Hal Berghel: Spot the Lie — New Book and Precis

DEFENDING AGAINST BIG DADA: DEFENSIVE TACTICS FOR WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION The first casualty of power politics, advocacy journalism, dark propaganda, rumor mills, and media-politico echo chambers is truth. Here’s a defensive tactic for your consideration. Scholars have been concerned with the pollution of our infospheres (‘infopollution’) for many decades. As I prepare this column …

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2014/06/012014/05/31

Hal Berghel: Comments on Intelligence Leadership, Moral Hazards, Manning, Snowden, & Wikileaks

Leadership Failures in the National Security Complex Current NSA forecast: continued Snowden flurries with no end in sight. No one blames the hardworking NSA employees for the latest series of gaffes: it’s the feckless leadership and the politics that got them there that are responsible for our current difficulties PDF (4 Pages): Hal on Leadership …

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