On 12/16/16, Alexander Ross maillist_arm-netbook@aross.me wrote:
heh this guy. i was read that article the other day :) and found some more on shared website, inc ones written by a curtain someone from this list, hint hint ;)
... so you know where i'm going with this. it was the "open manifesto" (open health, open intelligence, open source, open information etc.) that robert steele wrote, after being accidentally inspired by the open approach in intelligence and finding that people in the wider intelligence community *liked* it, that caught my eye.
heres the article:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/19/open-sourc...
that's the one.
basically it looks like hes a open minded, innovator type person, who questioned the current way and attitude of the way the security services do things and looked, thought, seeked, tried,exploded alt ways
you mean explored not exploded :)
yep, after forming the u.s. navy seals intelligence corp, he looked at setting up a conference on "open sources in intelligence", and it was highly successful. but his bosses at the CIA didn't like it and refused to fund the next conference or permit him to go to it... so he quit.
basically he can see that the current approach is self-perpetuating, corrupt, and, from being *in* the CIA he *KNOWS* damn well that their approach is completely ineffective. aaaalll that information-gathering, with the associated violations of privacy, and it's completely ineffective at achieving its intended goal: stopping "terrorists" and criminals alike because it *doesn't provide actionable intelligence*.
it's *word-of-mouth* and sources *outside* of the intelligence community that *actually* provides the valuable, actionable intelligence and corroborated facts!
let me reiterate: people in the U.S. govt do *NOT* go to the CIA to find sources of information on which to make intelligence decisions, they go out on... guess what? the internet! and they communicate with people via... the internet!
so it's really not hard to imagine why robert made the intuitive leap that security is achieved through open access to information, but that's not enough: he had to witness how utterly ineffective the CIA really was (is), from the inside.
the article still holds out on its own anyway. still makes for new incites to alt way of security being done, one which sounds like a far less bad will spreading one.
yeah.
so, part of the series i'm writing is to advocate the funding of OpenBTS and projects like it, and to curtail the powers of the FCC.
l.