Obviously the US isn’t going to name a federal building in Oklahoma after Timothy McVeigh, nor is it going to name a sky scraper in NYC after Osama bin Laden. My how times have changed! Not so very long ago American military bases and ships were attacked viciously using information warfare tactics and conspicuously named … Continue reading Suggestions for US Military Naming Commission
Update (Insider Sept 17): The BBC in 2019 reported that human traffickers were using Facebook’s services to sell domestic workers. Apple threatened to remove Facebook from its App Store after a report about an online slave market. The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook knew about the practice even before Apple made its threat. There … Continue reading Facebook Lied About Encryption and Mines Outrage for Profit
The key context to consider with smart toilets is whether they enhance or detract from data analysis already being done at the block-level, let alone in bulk wastewater treatment analysis. In other words, does generating more client-side analysis of human output (dare I call it log analysis) benefit the individual relative to having it done … Continue reading Do People Dump Too Much Privacy Using Smart Toilets?
Just three years after a code of ethics was drafted in Nuremberg (condemning Nazis for experimenting on humans without consent and with no benefit to test subjects) the US started a massive bioweapons test… violating the code: Over a period of six days in September 1950, members of the US Navy sprayed clouds of Serratia … Continue reading 1950 Operation Sea Spray: Bioweapons Test on San Francisco