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Informing Intelligence-Led Policing
Opportunity is Knocking. Answer the Door.
If you’ve ever thought that you should open the door when opportunity comes knocking? Listen up: it’s pounding on your door. It’s not often that we in the public safety community are approached with an opportunity to hothouse innovation, but this is one of those times. This week the call went out specifically to those […]
Prison Hack Shows More About Shared & Open Data Than Fugitive Hunting
October 19, 2013
by Nick Selby
This blog post ran at StreetCred Software.com and is cross-posted here. It is non-commercial. − When the story broke about Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins, the two Florida murderers who hacked their way out of jail with forged documents, I had just finished giving a speech on fugitive capture and manhunts that included this observation: “If your fugitive is featured […]
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Civic Coding and You – Apply for the Code for America Fellowship
July 29, 2013
by Nick Selby
Dave and I have sat in a room – this was recently – watching a college-educated woman at a desk with two computers, and two keyboards. She was typing information from one into the other because the two systems didn’t talk to one another. The data she was moving had to do with dangerous fugitives. […]
Banning Feds From DefCon Is Self Defeating. Here’s Why.
July 11, 2013
by Nick Selby
If you’re not familiar with DefCon, the hacker confab that has been meeting in Vegas for more than 20 years, you’re not paying attention to hacking. DefCon (and the accompanying conferences like BlackHat and BSides) makes Vegas the nerdiest place in the universe during July. You don’t want to use an ATM, connect to a […]
Big Ears, Little Ears: One article, three layers of blown secrecy, and how Edward Snowden proves my point
June 18, 2013
by Nick Selby
Today’s guest post is from Eric Olson, author of the Digital Water blog and a previous contributor to PLI. Well, I haven’t had much time to write here for quite a while, but the Edward Snowden affair – and more specifically this piece in the Guardian – were such a terrific display of the Digital […]
To Whom the 4th Amendment Doesn’t Apply
June 9, 2013
by Nick Selby
Guest blogger Chris Swan contributed this from the UK. Chris is Chief Technology Officer of CohesiveFT, where he focuses on product development and product delivery. After a decade as a Combat Systems Officer in the Royal Navy, Chris moved to the financial services industry where over the last 12 years he was an engineer, architect, […]
Strikeback! Commission on IP Theft Report Gets All Ronin On China
May 23, 2013
by Nick Selby
A bipartisan group that studies the effects and impacts of IP theft in the US, The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, has released a report outlining their findings on the scope of the issue and making policy recommendations to combat it. The most interesting proposal among several: strikeback to re-capture stolen IP […]
October 31, 2013
by Nick Selby
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