Category: Politics
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The ‘System’ vs Donald Trump
I have been thinking about what Donald Trump means for the ‘system’, by system I am thinking about the complex system that is the US Government Machine and its associated parts. Part of my thinking is that systems of Government have learnt how to persist, they have adaptive to promote and maintain their own existence.…
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US Election – The First Cyberwar?
The presidential election is starting to look like the front line in a cyberwar. With different national and global actors waging a war of information (or disinformation), the main weapon being deployed seems to be the sowing the seeds of doubt in the minds of the US electorate. Its hard to say where it all…
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Java Panama Papers Neo4J Network Generator
Further to the first attempt at importing the Panama Papers network data into Neo4J I did a very quick Java program that greats an embedded Neo4J database. It needs a bit of checking as it finds nodes that have the same node_id. Which I assume is some sort of mistake in the program or the…
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Panama Papers: Import Data to Neo4J using Cypher
I downloaded the panama paper network data, I was hoping it would be all the data, sadly not. Its it still interesting however. The import process is not to tricky. The following Cypher commands will get the data into a running Neo4J database. Note there is a \” in the Addresses file that will break…
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Podcast – quick history of encryption
I did a quick video of a very short history of encryption for a friend who was putting on a screening of Citizen Four. I tried to put the film into some context, including the crypto wars. Hard to do in ~10 minutes but I think I managed it. Please accept YouTube cookies to play…
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Investigatory Powers Bill
The video below is a recording of Teresa May answering questions on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill. some interesting highlights (or low lights) for me where the following: She essentially didn’t answer the question on why it is unhelpful to compare the retention of web history with that of an itemised phone bill. The two things…