les carnets de clarisse

Une sélection d’articles et de blogs du mois :

Renseignement

• Informed Consent

Bill Leonard retired in 2008 after 34 years of Federal service. In his most recent position as the Director of the Information Security Oversight Office, he was responsible for policy oversight of the Executive branch-wide national security information classification system. Before this appointment, Bill served in the Department of Defense to include as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Security and Information Operations) during both the Clinton and Bush administrations.

Classification: Radical, Let Alone Incremental, Reform Is Not Enough!
« Secrecy in government must be actively avoided and strong policies and oversight must be put in place to limit its use. Secrecy in government should be employed only when disclosure of the information will demonstrably lead to even greater harm to our nation. If we do not take advantage of the current environment and shed the shackles of today’s classification mindset, when will we ever?
In short, the excessive use of secrecy by our government has frequently imposed exceptionally grave damage to our national security, the very damage it is intended to preclude. In fact, the indiscriminate use of secrecy has caused more damage to our nation’s well-being than all the espionage cases in our country’s history.» 

• Secrecy News

Secrecy News, a publication of the Federation of American Scientists, reports on new developments in government secrecy and provides public access to documentary resources on secrecy, intelligence and national security policy. It is written by Steven Aftergood.

Secrecy and Error Correction in Open Source Intel
« Open source intelligence products, which are based on information gathered in the public domain, are often withheld from public disclosure, for various reasons.
Even when it can be justified, however, such secrecy comes at a price.  By restricting the distribution of unclassified intelligence products, government agencies also limit the opportunities for the discovery and correction of erroneous information or analysis.» 

• Public Intelligence Blog

Robert David Steele Vivas is known for his promotion of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Steele is a former clandestine services case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Reference: Information Strategy 101
« As we contemplated the reality that the U.S. Government does not have an information strategy, we realized it may not even know what one is.
[...]
Our short definition of a national information strategy is this:
“Train, equip, and organize the Whole of Government so as to create a Smart Nation that can mobilize all Knowledge Management assets and all Social Network assets so as to access  all external information in all languages and mediums all of the time–in real time– in order to create Organizational Intelligence with which to eradicate the ten high-level threats to humanity by harmonizing spending by all parties across all policies at all levels.”

Économie & technologie

• I, Cringely

Neutron Bomb
« What happened two years ago was IBM deciding to move most of its jobs offshore to save money after a sobering look at the life cycle cost of its U.S, workers.
[...]
“IBM is one of the multinationals that propelled America to the apex of its power, and it is now emblematic of the process of creative destruction pushing America to a new, less dominant, and less comfortable position,” Newsweek said.
This is the HR equivalent of a neutron bomb, which kills people but leaves structures unscathed. So all these companies will be leaner and meaner — mean enough that there may be nobody left to buy their products.
Companies like IBM that take this position are hurting America.» 

Australie

• the interpreter

The Interpreter aims to provide fresh insights into international events and a new way to experience and interact with the Lowy Institute. It is required reading for anyone interested in the subjects covered by the Institute.
The content of the blog reflects the research interests of our staff and fellows, and the concerns of our readers. We comment on contemporary international political and strategic events, economics, trade, transnational issues like terrorism, climate change and epidemics, and Australian foreign policy.

China: Getting from row to kow-tow
« China’s leaders launched a campaign of diplomatic punishment against Australia and it will need a nod from the top to get a ceasefire. The problem that will obsess Canberra in the next two months is twofold: how many more hits will Beijing deliver, and what should be the tone and colour of the verbal kow-tow China expects, possibly when Rudd meets Hu Jintao at the East Asia Summit or APEC summit.» 

Avions gris

• ViktorFeed Beta

A feed of dubious aircraft movements via the UAE, with geocoding. Filtering methodology strips out known-good airlines rather than trying to catch known-bad ones, in order to deal with rapidly changing company names.

• Alternate Seat of TYR

Banned airlines come to the West Country
Phoenix Aviation/AVE, a company banned from the EU and which has a long history of dubious activities, sent off a flight (number 2E501 – note this as it’s important later) from Dubai at 1539 with destination Bristol (Lulsgate).

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