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Beelzebub’s Protégé – Deconstructing the Myth of Whitfield Diffie
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY – Bailey Whitfield "Whit" Diffie first heard about the applications of computational work-based cryptographic methods from Alan Tritter at IBM's Thomas J. Watson laboratory, when he met with him and other members of the company's cryptography research team over a weekend in 1974. Diffie was nearing the end of his sojourn across the United States, which semi-official crypto biographer Steven Levy paints as the romantic adventure of an eccentric genius, whose "libertarian ethic" drove him to scour the country in search of the best way to achieve cryptographic privacy.
Canary in the Rare Earth Mine: The Secret War for Greenland and the Geopolitics of the Data Economy
NARSAQ, GREENLAND – Mariane Paviasen had greeted dozens of geologists, researchers and maybe even a few mining executives when they touched down on the Bell helicopters used by Air Greenland to ferry visitors to this remote part of the world. But in 2014, Paviasen traded in her practiced welcome pitch for a less agreeable disposition, after she decided to oppose a rare earth mining concession granted to an Australian company called Greenland Minerals, Ltd. (GGG), just five miles from her home in Narsaq.
Marx’s Socialist Encryption Standard and Other Myths of Cyberpolitics
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – Yale Law School describes its Information Society Project (ISP) as "a community of interdisciplinary scholars who explore issues at the intersection of law, technology, and society
Cloning Las Vegas – Digital Twin Cities and the Interoperability Cartel
HELL’S KITCHEN, NY - Patrons of Larry Flint’s Hustler Club in Manhattan might think twice about taking a cab to or from the notorious hot spot if they knew how easy it is for anyone with access to the datasets
Little Man: Why Merck Mercuriadis’ Blackstone Partnership Spells Doom for Human Creativity
LONDON, ENGLAND - Intellectual property (IP), as a legal concept, has its origins in the pharmaceutical industry and in the creative arts industry. Led by Pfizer and other powerful corporations like IBM, Hollywood studios and the top record labels
To Believe or Not to Believe: The Origins of Open Source Intelligence and the Stories We Tell
LONDON, UK - Open source intelligence or OSINT was the brainchild of Arnold Toynbee, founder of Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), also known as Chatham House and the prototypical think tank
Dawn of the Embodied Autonomous Agent Society
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA - Early Thursday morning, a century-long study panel called the "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)" hosted by Stanford University published its second report on the state of AI.
Robots in the Magic Kingdom: The 4th Industrial Revolution is Almost Over and Nobody Noticed
BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS - Dog shit has been a persistent problem for the popular robot vacuum cleaner, Roomba, until just a few days ago when the domestic droid-maker announced a new software update
Lord of the Secular Mega Trends
NEW YORK, NY - One of the advantages of holding vast amounts of capital is the ability to disregard the cyclical 'nature' of the economy and having the luxury to sit out periods of expansion and contraction with a bird's-eye view of your investments.