Cognitive Ecology

One of the signature emotions of fascism is how overwhelming it all is.

While the previous article explained methods and metrics used to understand a network, this article will focus on how the US military (and increasingly law enforcement) uncovers and dismantles networked organizations using that information.

When intelligence analysts try to understand networked groups, they start with the raw material - intelligence reports from any number of human and technical sources, after-action reviews and reports from units on the ground, open sources such as news med…

Since the beginning of the Global War on Terror, research into social networks has been a hot topic within the US military.

More often than not, I see people approach community defense in the opposite order.

The long, good version of this article already exists, from the EFF.

A regular place I see learning go wrong is in attempting to imitate or take lessons from a different context than your own.

As the presidential election this fall looms ever larger, I’ve been thinking about what the results mean for the left here in the US.

Even widespread techniques such as threat modeling are fundamentally about looking into the future and preparing for what might happen.

Nearly everywhere encourages you to learn new skills.

I've been researching irregular counterintelligence recently, and some consistent themes seem to exist throughout.

So You Want Better Security That's great!

These are not terribly hard to make, and are great training materials for a stop the bleed-style class.

This spun out of a question - "why aren't civilian drones being impacted by Russian electronic warfare assets in Ukraine?"

Let's dive into why your gun can work fine, and still be unreliable.