Inland Empire Progressive

When conservatives thunder about election integrity, they want you to picture stuffed ballot boxes, dead voters rising from the grave, and shadowy Democratic operatives plotting to rig the system. But what they don’t want you to picture is their own weaponization of campaign technology data mining , microtargeting , and voter surveillance that quietly undermines the very democratic freedoms they pretend to safeguard. Our election infrastructure doesn’t just hinge on ballots, it hinges on how campaigns harvest, store, and deploy voter information. And here, conservatives are not defenders of liberty they’re some of the worst offenders. Conservatives claim to champion privacy and individual liberty, yet their campaign operations routinely buy and weaponize massive voter files, sometimes enhanced with commercial consumer data, to micro-target voters in ways that blur the line between persuasion and manipulation. From the disastrous ORCA system in 2012 to the more sinister Cambridge Ana...

On January 18, Gelareh Bagherzadeh was shot at point blank range while on the cell phone with her boyfriend. She was a medical student studying molecular biology. She was an also advocate for Women's Rights in Iran. While this may or may not have been a hit, with the current hostilities between the United States and Iran almost at their pinnacle I would not be surprised if it was.  Please pray for her family and for peace.

As a student of Information Security, I try to keep abreast of the latest news developments about this subject. I was cruising through my usual political sites, when I happened upon this little tidbit. It looks like a Cyber War is coming between the United States and Iran. I wonder what that would actually be like…to be in war fought entirely online? Good article by Tina Casey at www.talkingpointsmemo.com Duqu And Stuxnet Could Be Cousins In Arms Against Iran | TPM Idea Lab

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus from Patrick Clair on Vimeo .