BBspot - iPhone Hacker Headed to Guantanamo "We couldn't have a powerful phone like the iPhone working on a speedy network. It would've become the perfect tool for fashionable terrorists. We handcuffed them to the slow Edge network because that would slow terrorist activity," said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. in Public bookmarkswith applehackersinternetmobilesatirewar
Edge: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE By Steven Pinker "But, now that social scientists have started to count bodies in different historical periods, they have discovered that the romantic theory gets it backward: Far from causing us to become more violent, something in modernity and its cultural institutions has made us nobler." in Public bookmarkswith historysciencesociologyviolencewar
Schneier on Security: The War on the Unexpected We've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested -- even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats. in Public bookmarkswith dumblawsecuritysociologywarby 2 users
Zeitgeist - The Movie, 2007 Zeitgeist was created as a nonprofit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are. in Public bookmarkswith activismmoviespoliticswar