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army & navy to air force: “we want in on Cyber Command”
For just a moment — a moment — I saw the headline Air Force Halts Cyber Command Program and though: great news! Some of you may have noticed the air force’s recent power grab, declaring that cyberspace is their’s to protect:
Back in November of 2006 the 8th Air Force became the new “Air Force Cyberspace […]
apple’s long-arm tactics
No one could of seen this one coming (cough). Apple has embedded a remote kill switch in the iPhone’s operating system that allows them to deactivate applications of their choosing — including applications which were knowingly installed by an iPhone’s owner. According to Wired’s Gadget Lab:
Jonathan Zdrianski, author of the book iPhone Open Application Development, […]
About Gregory
Gregory Donovan is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Psychology and a certificate candidate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. He has held fellowships at The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, the Macaulay Honors College, and The Stanton/Heiskell Center for Telecommunication Policy, and has conducted research at The CUNY New Media Lab, The Center for Human Environments, and with several children’s educational media groups.
His dissertation, entitled “MyDigitalFootprint.org: Informational Youth and the Securitization of Cyberspace,” is a participatory investigation into the political ecology of informational capitalism. Specifically, how the mutual shaping of informational development and young people’s development plays out in an increasingly securitized and privatized informational environment.
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