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The United States military currently views cyberspace as the "fifth domain" of warfare - alongside land, sea, air, and space - and the Department of Defense, National Security Agency, and CIA all field teams of hackers who can - and do - launch computer virus strikes against enemy targets. In fact, as @War shows, US hackers were crucial to our victory in Iraq.

CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson was the only mainstream journalist willing to dig deep into Obama Administration scandals like Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and the targeting of Tea Party groups by the IRS. Her liberal colleagues increasingly shunned her. Then she discovered that someone was using...

Excerpt At the same time, Cole took to the world’s digital stage—every Oracle Mobile, Lunettes device, forearm implant, and public address drone carried the broadcast—to make an “important announcement”: the unveiling of significant advances in Cole’s Matia implants. No longer limited to corrective medical procedures and closed corporate, industrial, and military AI systems and interfaces, Matia implants—autonomous artificial computerized mechanical bodies inserted in the eye socket—were now fully compatible with, and connected to, publicly accessible Oracle systems and ...

A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment—the definitive police state—and the global technology giants that made it possible Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien...

A groundbreaking exposé that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important. After details of American government...

Rigorously empirical and rich in historical insight, The Sentinel State is a singular contribution to our knowledge about Chinese state coercion and, more generally, the survival strategies of authoritarian regimes.

In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited...

📘 The Great Reset: What Klaus Schwab Won’t Tell You – And How to Save Yourself from the Digital Dictatorship What if the greatest upheaval of our time has already begun – and almost no one notices? The pandemic was only the beginning. While the world staggers in crisis mode, elites like Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEF) are working on a global redesign – the “Great Reset.” Marketed as a vision for the future, it reveals itself, upon closer inspection, as a slow erosion of freedom: surveillance, transhumanism, digital identity, censorship, and total control. In ...

Was the free press ever truly free? Or did hidden hands once pull the strings of public perception? What Was Operation Mockingbird? takes listeners deep into one of the most debated chapters of modern intelligence history—where Cold War secrecy, media influence, and conspiracy theory collide. This thought-provoking guide unravels the complex origins, allegations, and investigations tied to the term "Operation Mockingbird" and invites listeners to explore the blurry lines between documented truth and persistent rumour.

Yes, they are watching, but with the right knowledge, you can escape the grid. Inside, you’ll discover secrets the government doesn’t advertise: the tricks of creating new identities from thin air, the art of misdirection (laying false trails to send manhunts the wrong way, and the gritty reality of living under the radar. Each chapter tackles a new obstacle in your path to invisibility. Worried about your digital footprint? Learn how to erase or encrypt the data that’s tagging along behind you. (One former skip-tracer shares how he found anyone online – and how you can stop people ...

In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. In the aftermath, Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of Wikileaks, found himself at the center of a media storm, accused of hacking and later sexual assault. He spent the next seven years in asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, fearful that he would be extradited to Sweden to face the accusations of assault and then sent to US.

Reality Hacked pulls back the curtain on the hidden systems that shape what we see and believe online. It shows how bot farms amplify outrage, how “firehose of falsehood” tactics flood social media with conflicting stories, and how artificial intelligence now manufactures entire people, movements, and events from data.

Uncover everything you need to know about "deepfakes" and what could become the biggest information and communications meltdown in world history. In a world of deepfakes, it will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what isn't. As advances in artificial intelligence, video creation, and...

Una nueva era de Guerra Geo-Poli-Cyber™ sin precedentes está sobre nosotros. Los eventos, ataques y guerras Geo-Poli-Cyber™ se han intensificado desde 2010, impulsados por actores siniestros que buscan devastar naciones y economías con fines ideológicos, extremistas y geopolíticos, mientras las estrategias de ciberseguridad siguen fracasando, dejando a ciudadanos, empresas y países expuestos y más vulnerables que nunca.

From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies—the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our healthcare to the news and social media we consume and the products foisted upon us. Today’s...

Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets.

An accessible guide that breaks down the complex issues around mass surveillance and data privacy and explores the negative consequences it can have on individual citizens and their communities. No one is exempt from data mining: by owning a smartphone, or using social media or a credit card, we...

The more we elevate and seek out privacy, the more it seems to diminish. Such is the paradox we have inherited. It is no coincidence that the word privacy was popularized in the 1890s as the West began its flirtation with centralization and top-down planning. The progressive pursuit of heaven on earth—of Utopia—arose from a desire to help the individual. But the individual would have to expose himself, to give up everything, in order to receive it.

Columbia Business School professor Sandra Matz reveals in fascinating detail how big data offers insights into the most intimate aspects of our psyches and how these insights empower an external influence over the choices we make. This can be creepy, manipulative, and downright harmful, with scandals like that of British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica being merely the tip of the iceberg. Yet big data also holds enormous potential to help us live healthier, happier lives.

Based on news reports, you might think there's a major cybersecurity threat every four to five months. In reality, there's a cybersecurity attack happening every minute of every day. In Cyber Crisis, Eric Cole gives listeners a clear-eyed picture of the information war raging in cyberspace. Drawing on 30 years of experience, Cole offers practical, actionable advice that even those with little technical background can implement, including steps to take on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to protect their businesses and themselves.