Coriolanus

“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge.” The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of […]

According to many historians, the “Greek miracle” of a polis was achieved as a result of a cultural transition from mythos to logos. That is the transition of a culture based on myths to one of reason. It was on logos on which society was born in Greek culture. But myths didn’t die, they just took a second seat. Even […]

A little preface: To say I dislike Edward Snowden and Glen Greenwald is putting my feelings mildly. I think about the years leading up to this point and it draws out an ire that borders on fury. I was politely asked to write an article covering a facet of this, and I felt that I could […]

This shit is chess. It ain’t checkers. – Alonzo Harris, Training Day Bottom Line Up Front: This is a rebuttal to “Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan”(Flynn 2010), and includes my own assertions regarding military intelligence. This post is a series of observations based on my own experience within the community […]

On October 27, 2016, an unknown person or persons of interest stole 134,386 names and social security numbers of US Navy sailors from a laptop of a contractor working for Hewlett Packard and under contract by the Navy. The exfiltrated data derives from the Career Waypoints database (C-WAY). The C-WAY database is used to for re-enlistment […]

The introduction of this social credit system, as with all things created by the Chinese state, rides on a seemingly benign current.

Many of China’s inexpensive routers and smartphones are being designed with the potential to retrieve information without the user’s knowledge.

A little preface: To say I dislike Edward Snowden and Glen Greenwald is putting my feelings mildly. I think about the years leading up to this point and it draws out an ire that borders on fury. I was politely asked to write an article covering a facet of this, and I felt that I could […]

The term “artifact” has at least two meanings: From a technical perspective, an artifact is an unintentional pattern in data, arising from processes of collection and management. From a cultural perspective, an artifact is a designed object, with a social and material history. -Yanni Loukissas As I laid out in the first part of this […]

The artifice on which every intra-state relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) stands is: “In China, ‘win-win” means China wins twice.” There have been a few articles on the PRC here on SOFREP. I recently worked on a project that dealt with this, and thus my decision to write on it was appropriately […]

So to recap, Part 1 of this subject covered the deep web and its relationship to analytics, and the dark web and its relationship to nefarious activity in brief. As part of this week’s fun, I thought I would introduce you to Daisake Inoue. I met him several years ago at a VisWeek conference and […]

This article spawns from a conversation on the nature of the “Deep Web” and/or the “Dark Web,” and what is the difference and why. The “why” is “Why does it matter to me the reader?” It should. It’s your Internet.  To quote William Gibson in Neuromancer: “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of […]