these were some slides i was playing with on the flight out to swfoo considering what i wanted to speak about/what was interesting to me... the story isn't totally pulled together by any means - just some questions -

1. ‘practical’ disinformation
some half complete thoughts for foo

2. is content valuable? not
sure…

3. information is valuable

4. 11010110__101011
value = f(improbability)

5. only pic of grandma vs. 100th party photo
only one who knows WMT tomorrow (vs. everyone)
roulette, horse races, etc.

6. information is itself valuable based on
scarcity
information shared widely can raise general
welfare (brush your teeth),
but it is intrinsically less valuable

7. regardless of how ‘open’
we do/don’t get
the value of information –
f(improbability)

8. old school ->
lock down your secrets

9. old school ->
rely on regulator (patents)

10. does that continue to work?

11. war of attrition, with leveling
playing field

12. traditional security
Vi(1) – Cs(1) Vi(2) – Cs(2)
>

13. institutions / enforcement can’t save us
I(OI)(OI)(OI)(OI)(OI)(OI)(OI)(OI)O… who done it?

14. The more parties to ‘trust’ & be ‘transparent’ the more
expensive the privacy gets
postal
service
corporate isp isp corporate
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15. + centralization/authority
also have huge risk

16. information diffuses almost
instantly

17. is disinformation the only
possible solution?

18. publishing is now cheaper
than preventing publication

19. everyone can find waldo

20. so we need to hide waldo in
waldos

21. what is the anti-google? –
a white bot-net?

22. what is the difference between
a white and a dark bot-net?

23. APIs on APIs on APIs and an
‘open’ web make it worse

24. like it or not, if there is value
to be captured it will happen

25. long term tendency towards
equilibrium, or disequilibrium

26. are we just facing a world
where there is no
‘information’