“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,...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticlePMC. 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...
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