Open Source Software, Inc.

Remember when the promise of open source software was that it was an alternative to the coercive corporate software that always tried to game the user to fit into its plan? Me too. But it seems those days have ended. The above is Mozilla adopting a page from Microsoft and Apple and trying to confuse Open Source Software, Inc.

The paranoid future of work

If you could increase your bottom line by squeezing more work out of your wage slaves, who are prone to screw off most of the time because they hate their slave-like jobs (which are essentially day care for drones), why wouldn’t you? Especially if it’s just a little software program. Tens of thousands of programmers, The paranoid future of work

False reality

The internet is created of symbols; symbols often seem more real than reality itself because symbols are more digestible by our minds. This however creates a wetware security hole: people can re-program our symbols by inserting false data. This is a form of fraud which is very subtle and often missed. Trust in information on False reality

Feed your paranoia: Palantir

Ever since Neuromancer, people have wanted real cyberspace — a visual display that correlates all the information out there and shows you the underlying patterns, no longer hidden by visual appearance of disunity. Here’s one stab at it: The day Fikri drives to Orlando, he gets a speeding ticket, which triggers an alert in the Feed your paranoia: Palantir

R.I.P. Wikileaks

From The Guardian: These cables contain details of activists, opposition politicians, bloggers in autocratic regimes and their real identities, victims of crime and political coercion, and others driven by conscience to speak to the US government. They should never have had to fear being exposed by a self-proclaimed human rights organisation. – “Why I felt R.I.P. Wikileaks