Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
The Surveillance Party Redux
TL;DR Details of how the Labour party used an ersatz SIGINT operation against it’s own (prospective) members and supporters have come to light in the Forde Inquiry. This provides confirmation that the National Executive Committee (NEC) were excluding people for political expression on social media that didn’t align to their chosen ideology. Background Almost six […]
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Tags: politics, twitter, Facebook, SIGINT, Labour, social media, purge, exclusion, Snowden, Corbyn, Forde, report
Letters to Craig Murray #9
###Letter #9 Delivered 10 Oct 21 Hi Craig, I think you’d have been very busy with blogging this past week. The ‘Pandora Papers’ hit the wires as the latest follow ups to the Panama and Paradise papers. I do fear that the long term effect of this stuff is to normalise the behaviours they uncover […]
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Tags: Blair, Facebook, NSO, Pandora papers
The Surveillance Party
TL;DR The UK Labour Party has been running an ersatz signals intelligence (SIGINT) operation to identify and exclude members and supporters that they don’t want voting in their leadership election; people who under some sort of criteria are identified as enemies of the party. This should be terrifying, as the difference between enemy of the […]
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Tags: #LabourPurge2, Corbyn, enemy, exclusion, Facebook, Labour, politics, purge, SIGINT, Snowden, social media, state, twitter
Facebook have announced their own switch design, codenamed ‘Wedge’, saying that it’s already being tested in their production network. In many ways the switch is unremarkable; it uses the same Broadcom Trident II merchant silicon ASIC that most other high end ‘white box’ top of rack (TOR) switches use, and it uses Linux on a […]
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Tags: ASIC, Facebook, OCP, open compute, osh, SDN, switch
Facebook and Internet Alchemy
This is one of those started as a comment, but really deserves a full post type things… My comment was in response to JP’s The new new telco where he posits that Facebook could be a very valuable business due to its telco like properties on a global scale. Here’s my original comment: This is […]
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Tags: alchemy, business model, disintermediation, Facebook, free, Internet, long tail
Bubble 2.0
I had the misfortune of missing most of the first Internet bubble. Although I’d got into the Internet before there was a World Wide Web I’d signed my life away to the Royal Navy (in exchange for a great education and generous financial package). Thus I got to spend the two years it took between […]
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Tags: bubble, Facebook, google, investment, IPO, social networking, valuation, Zynga
Identity Providers – Facebook
This is my third post in a series looking at how federated identity has becoming a reality (I first looked at Twitter, and then Google). Before we get started I kind of liked Facebook in the early days that I used it, but frankly I never expected it to last. I thought that like the social […]
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Tags: Facebook, Facebook connect, federated, federation, Graph API, oauth, OpenID, persona, single sign on, SSO
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