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Cracking the code: The crowd vs the virus

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Ville Miettinen

… by a highly infectious virus named Trojan-Spy.0485/Malware-Cryptor.Win32.Inject.gen.2 (or Stuxnet if you’re human). Experts at the big antivirus companies concluded that Stuxnet was probably created by the US or Israeli intelligence services, and was designed to cripple the Iranian nuclear program.

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Of course, the US and Israel responded with the traditional mantra of the intelligence community: deny all knowledge. The story seemed to …

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Welcome to the Open Ministry

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Jack Reynolds

After casually revolutionizing the worlds of design, data-processing and translation, the crowd is now getting to work on the business of government. Iceland is preparing to implement a crowdsourced constitution, and this March the Finnish Parliament passed the Citizens’ Initiative Act. The Act allows any citizen to present a law to Parliament, providing they can get the …

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