PMC. Pirates, Mercenaries and Crooks?
In Nanopunk, the earth is eleven years into the Big Freeze that wiped out a third of the human population and most of the wildlife. The story begins at a time when society is beginning to slowly piece...
View ArticleGM Firm Monsanto buys own Armed Mercenary Group
The Facts Political Blind Spot: A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater later called Xe Services and more recently “Academi”...
View ArticleDefend Your Privacy – or lose your freedom
Contact your Representative and tell them to: 1. Keep the original Law and push for more privacy AND 2. Do something against holes that are proposed by Lobbyists. Contact details can e.g. be found on...
View ArticleFBI Evidence: We have no privacy, we are all suspect
The scifi novel ‘Nanopunk’ has a (seemingly neutral) massive Supercomputer named janus that ‘observes and analyses’ data stored or flowing across all global networks; learning, building patterns and...
View ArticleTwitter Transparency Report Warns Of ‘Serious Chilling Effect’ From Growing...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/twitter-transparency-report_n_2569250.html Twitter follow Google in warning of governments increased demands for data. It looks more and more like governments...
View ArticleCyber-spies closing in on Alister Cloud?
Envelope-to: monitoringadmin@gchq.uk.gov Delivery-date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:01:30 +0000 Received: from bastion.mail.eugov.eu ([260.245.333.0001]:500022) by europolmailhost.gov.eu with esmtp (Exim 4.80)...
View ArticlePentagon’s new massive expansion of ‘cyber-security’ unit
Pentagon’s new massive expansion of ‘cyber-security’ unit is about everything except defense. The White House National Security Council Document ” The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative”...
View ArticleNanopunk Chapter-1
Chapter 0 “Stop, wait. Is this really what’s going to happen, minute by minute?” “Yes, my calculations are near perfect.” “And when I wake up I won’t remember any of it when it all kicks off again?”...
View ArticleThe Nanopunk Situationists: A New Breed of Cyber-Militants
The Situationists, old and new The Situationist International (SI) was founded in 1957 and were most popular during the historic May 1968 uprisings in France. The Situationists argued for a creative,...
View ArticleFlame – Massive International cyber-attack
Let the fingers do the Stalking A complex targeted cyber-attack that collected private data from countries such as Israel and Iran has been uncovered, researchers have said. This new threat appears...
View Article“Nanopunk” A metaphor for the mess we’re in?
A couple of people have said they can see various metaphors in my book “Nanopunk“. Collectively these are: (i) the ‘Big Freeze’ is a metaphor for the current global economic crisis; (ii) that Janus,...
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