Jan Kallberg, PhD

En utökad allemansrätt? « Ämbetet

2012-05-25T07:43:05-05:00

Vad utmärker de Skandinaviska länderna? Mycket natur, eller annorlunda uttryckt låg befolkningstäthet är troligtvis en av de tydligaste kännetecknen för Skandinavien. Gemensamt för självbilden i länderna är också idén om fritt tillträde till naturen, men också fritt tillträde till det offentliga rummet. Allemansrätten är en av de mer omhuldade symbolerna för frihet.

Allmänningen är i sådana sammanhang ett mycket gammalt begrepp som manifesterar just en sådan självbild och en frihet i tillträde till det offentliga rummet.

Allmänningen är ett begrepp som stammar från tiden långt före 1900-talets samhällsbyggande med alla dess politiska undertoner. Det var väl helt enkelt lätt för allmänningen att finnas kvar i en glest befolkad nord.

Allmänningen är en plats där man ’bara får vara’, åtminstone relativt förutsättningslöst. Du har relativt långtgående rättigheter på allmän plats, t.ex. rätten att demonstrera, rätten att mötas, att uttrycka åsikter och alla de där diffusa värden du hört talas om förut och tar som givna. Allemansrätten ger nästan lika långtgående rättigheter, dvs. du får fritt ströva omkring och ta del av värden i exempelvis skog och mark utan att bli ivägkörd osv.

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Tar upp Erik Lakomaas och min artikel i Computer Sweden.

Missile Blimp on Drawing Board

2012-05-22T18:09:36-05:00

The Blue Devil 2 airship under construction. Photo: Mav6

Upstart Virginia aerospace firm Mav6 is offering to install guided missiles on the massive robotic spy blimp it’s building for the Air Force. The idea would only be slightly terrifying, if the massive airship were headed to Afghanistan, as originally planned. But Mav6 and its CEO, a respected retired Air Force general, are also promoting the giant airship for homeland security missions over U.S. soil. In that way, today’s war blimp could become tomorrow’s all-seeing, lethal Big Brother.

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Energy and utility companies lag behind more regulated industries in cybersecurity, study shows -- Government Computer News

2012-05-22T13:54:31-05:00

A study by Carnegie Mellon cybersecurity researchers found that top corporate executives too often are disengaged from management of cyber risks to their organizations and that operators of critical infrastructure tend to lag behind the more highly regulated financial services industry in overseeing cybersecurity and privacy protection.

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How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

2012-05-21T11:44:56-05:00

In many ways, Scott Widdowson is your typical electrical engineer. Most days, when the weather’s good, he bikes the 15 miles along the Ottawa River to his company’s offices in the west end of the Canadian capital. Once there, he settles in for a day of reading technical specifications, poring over computer textbooks, or prying apart consumer electronics — logic probe in one hand and a soldering iron in the other.

But Widdowson is a specialist. He’s one of 10 reverse-engineers working full time for a stealthy company funded by some of the biggest names in technology: Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Sony, and Ericsson. Called the Rockstar Consortium, the 32-person outfit has a single-minded mission: It examines successful products, like routers and smartphones, and it tries to find proof that these products infringe on a portfolio of over 4,000 technology patents once owned by one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies.

When a Rockstar engineer uncovers evidence of infringement, the company documents it, contacts the manufacturer, and demands licensing fees for the patents in question. The demand is backed by the implicit threat of a patent lawsuit in federal court. Eight of the company’s staff are lawyers. In the last two months, Rockstar has started negotiations with as many as 100 potential licensees. And with control of a patent portfolio covering core wireless communications technologies such as LTE (Long Term Evolution) and 3G, there is literally no end in sight.

“Pretty much anybody out there is infringing,

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Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL): Search Results

2012-05-15T08:17:28-05:00

Designer Satellite Collisions from Covert Cyber War

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The White House is Spending Big Money on Big Data - Forbes

2012-05-14T12:51:25-05:00

It’s typical in an election year to see an administration spend money on new initiatives. A new cost cutting initiative unveiled back in March has generally gone un-noticed by the main stream technology media. Called the “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” the program is focused on improving the U.S. Federal governments ability to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data, the initiative promises to help solve some the Nation’s most pressing challenges.

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Covert Cyberwar

2012-05-14T09:30:12-05:00

My article is re-published by the Information Operations
Newsletter, US Army Space and Missile Defense Command
Army Forces Strategic Command
G39, Information Operations Division

http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/IPO/repository/ARSTRAT%20IO%20Newsletter%20v12%20no%2006.pdf

Löfven kritiserar Nuder - DN.SE

2012-05-11T10:30:13-05:00

Socialdemokraternas ledare Stefan Löfven är kritisk till att förre S-finansministern Pär Nuder under förra året plockade ut en statsrådspension samtidigt som hans eget företag gjorde miljonvinst.

– Jag skulle inte ha gjort det. Vad jag förstår har han inte brutit mot något regelverk, men han har också ett personligt ansvar, säger Löfven.

– Det måste vara så att människor kan veta att vi politiker har villkor som inte skiljer sig så väsentligt från vanliga människor. Med den bakgrund jag har vet jag hur snacket går.

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Fascinerande att (S) ledaren är den enda som driver borgerlig politik.

Deponera data hos Stiftelsen - Computer Sweden

2012-05-08T08:17:17-05:00

I ett läge där det offentligas datamängder kan räknas i terabyte innebär utlämnande av offentliga handlingar enligt offentlighetsprincipen att transparensen begränsar sig till bråkdelar av datamängderna.

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What is a Cyber Weapon? « Hackmageddon.com

2012-05-03T07:38:54-05:00

What is a Cyber Weapon? At first glance this seems an immediate question to answer, but should anyone try to analyze the meaning of this term more deeply, probably he would be quite surprised and disappointed in discovering that the answer is not so immediate since an exact definition has not been given (at least so far).

A real paradox in the same days in which The Pentagon, following the Japanese Example, has unveiled its new strategy aimed to dramatically accelerate the development of new Cyber Weapons. And do not think these are isolated, fashion-driven examples (other nations are approaching the same strategy), but rather consider them real needs in the post-Stuxnet age, an age in which more and more government are moving their armies to the fifth domain of war [you will probably remember the (in)famous episode, when F-Secure was able to discover Chinese Government launching online attacks against unidentified U.S. Targets].

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Taylor & Francis Online :: Rule of Capture and Urban Sprawl: A Potential Federal Financial Risk in Groundwater-Dependent Areas - International Journal of Water Resources Development -

2012-05-02T10:36:17-05:00

Taylor & Francis Online :: Rule of Capture and Urban Sprawl: A Potential Federal Financial Risk in Groundwater-Dependent Areas - International Journal of Water Resources Development -

Who Wants to Buy a Stealth Ship? | Defense Tech

2012-04-28T10:27:10-05:00

Who wants to buy the U.S. Navy’s original stealth ship? Yup, the Lockheed Martin-built Sea Shadow is being auctioned off from its home in the Suisun Bay ghost fleet in California. You’d better hurry up and bid since the price is already north of $100,000 (still bargain, you get the stealthy ship and the historic floating dry dock she’s moored inside.) Here are the details. Happy Friday!

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Volume 5, Issue 2 | Sustainability: The Journal of Record | Table of Contents

2012-04-22T09:03:46-05:00

Online Accountability and Transparency in Sustainable Green Business

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"Online Accountability and Transparency in Sustainable Green Business"

Sent skall syndaren vakna...

Pentagon sees progress, challenges in cyber warfare | Reuters

2012-04-22T08:54:35-05:00

(Reuters) - The Pentagon says it is making progress in developing weapons for its newest battleground - cyberspace - but still faces funding, technology and policy challenges.

U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Michael Basla, vice commander of Air Force Space Command, told industry officials on Monday the service was approaching its work on cyber capability as it would any other major weapons system.
"We have made measurable progress in defensive and offensive capabilities" in the past year, Basla said at a space conference.
He talked about teams of cyber "hunters" and listed several new programs - all part of the Pentagon's new drive to be more transparent about its work on cyber warfare and push back against daily attacks on its computer systems.
A watershed U.S. intelligence report in November said China and Russia are using cyber espionage to steal U.S. trade and technology secrets. Last week, the head of intelligence at U.S. Cyber Command described what he called an accelerating "global cyber arms race."

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Water and Wastewater Cyber Security: Strengthening the Chain - WaterWorld

2012-04-20T19:14:00-05:00

Water and Wastewater Cyber Security: Strengthening the Chain

By Angela Godwin
Today's water utilities are realizing great benefits from technological advancements in automation. SCADA systems, PLCs, RTUs — a veritable alphabet soup of modern conveniences — help water and wastewater utilities maximize resources, conserve energy, monitor operations, and track trends. But the very tools that hold so much potential for operational improvement are also a source of growing apprehension, surely keeping more than a few plant operators awake at night.

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Intressant.

Demonstration mot Hjällboskolans rektor | GT

2012-04-20T18:54:12-05:00

Familjerna till de pojkar som greps för misshandeln på Kortedala torg är starkt kritiska till de uttalanden Hjällboskolans rektor Peter Holmqvist gjort om pojkarna. Enligt de anhöriga är uttalanden helt felaktiga. Bland annat har han sagt sig om att pojkarna tros missbruka droger.

Ett 70-tal personer samlades på fredagen utanför skolans entré. Det var främst skolungdomar men även anhöriga till de misstänkta pojkarna var på plats.

En person hade tagit med sig en megafon och ropade: "Vill ni har kvar rektorn?" varpå folkmassan svarade "Nej!".

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Folk saknar hut i kroppen.

Country Commitments | Open Government Partnership

2012-04-20T10:13:28-05:00

På bokstaven I har dessa förbundit sig för att verka för en öppen, ärlig och demokratisk statsförvaltning
INDONESIA Commitments Delivered
ISRAEL Commitments Delivered
ITALY Commitments Delivered

Iran stavas tydligen inte längre med I --- eller så insåg OGP att det var lönlöst att ens fråga.......

Francis Maude: 'public data owned by the citizen, not the state' | Public Leaders Network | Guardian Professional

2012-04-19T21:31:09-05:00

Since coming to office, the coalition has made great strides towards David Cameron's commitment that the United Kingdom would be the most open and transparent government in the world. We have already brought a new openness to all areas of government, radically challenging the damaging idea that public data is owned by the state, not the citizen. And because we know that data can be a valuable raw material with the power to improve prosperity, raise wellbeing and even save lives, we are determined that when we can we open it up for all.

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Air Force Kicks Off Search for 6th-Gen Fighter | Defense Tech

2012-04-13T08:37:19-05:00

Check this out. Rounding out a week of bad news for what’s set to be the Air Force’s mainstay fighter for the coming decades, the F-35, Steve Trimble at Flight Global dug up the air service’s request for information on what might be an F-22 (and maybe an F-35) replacement.
(Pictured above is Boeing’s proposed 6th-Gen Navy jet.)
The Air Force is interested in a plane, dubbed the Next Generation Tactical Aircraft, equipped with: “Enhanced capabilities in areas such as reach, persistence, survivability, net-centricity, situational awareness, human-system integration, and weapons effects,” a November 4, presolicitation noticestates. “It must be able to operate in the anti-access/area-denial environment that will exist in the 2030–2050 timeframe.”

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Sjätte generationens stridsflyg är på väg.

Filming OpenGov Champions Homicide Watch DC - Sunlight Foundation

2012-04-09T11:20:01-05:00

Working on our short documentary series called OpenGov Champions I get to go and hang out with some extremely smart, creative and inspiring people. The Champions are ordinary citizens who do some extraordinary work to open up their local government data in big or small ways, not because someone asked them to, but because they are either fed up with not having access to information they need or simply because want their communities to flourish. To me, this is far more interesting as a storyteller and documentary filmmaker than interviewing seasoned politicians, spokespeople or experts. These are the kind of stories that are the fodder of classic storytelling and moviemaking. They are real life stories of the quintessential American heroes: Ones who defeat the odds by taking the matters into their own hands and create real change by strong will, passion and hard work.

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2012-04-09T10:48:42-05:00

I was just interviewed by Federal Times about insider threats to organizations and how peer-reporting could play a role.

Inside the Army’s Secret Cold War Ice Base | Defense Tech

2012-04-07T08:11:30-05:00

No, this picture doesn’t show a black and white image of the rebel base on the ice planet Hoth. It’s part of a secret, nuclear-powered U.S. Army base that was built under the Greenland ice cap only 800 miles from the North Pole. The base was officially built to conduct scientific research but the real reason was apparently to test out the feasibility of burying nuclear missiles below the ice under an effort known as Project Iceworm. Remember, Greenland is way closer to Russia than the ICBM fields located in the continental U.S. Rumor has it that the Danish government had no idea that the U.S. was considering installing nuclear missiles on Greenland.
The 200-man base was massive , described by some as an underground city, and consisted of 21 steel-arch covered trenches; the longest of which was 1,100-feet long, 26-feet wide and 26-feet high. These tunnels contained numerous prefabricated buildings that were up to 76-feet long. The base was powered by a portable PM-2A nuclear reactor that produced two megawatts of power for the facility.

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Awesome Video: DDG-1000 Coming Together | Defense Tech

2012-04-06T08:58:54-05:00

Want to see something cool? Watch the video below. As a tipster wrote us, “Your pic of Zumwalt being built is nice, but I have better.” We couldn’t agree more. The video below shows one of the USS Zuwalt’s massive hull sections leaving the Ultra Hall at Bath Iron Works in Maine and being fitted to several other pieces of the hull. The video gives you a great sense of just how big the 600-foot long Zumwalt class destroyers are. Remember, they’ll be the largest big gun ships to serve in the Navy since the retirement of the Iowa class battleships in the 1990s. At 1,400 tons, this ultra unit of the hull is the largest hull section ever moved at the shipyard. These are going to be really cool to see in operations.

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Reuters stämmer svenska staten | Journalisten

2012-04-05T18:47:45-05:00

Nyhetsbyrån Reuters stämmer svenska staten för att ha överdebiterat Reuters för tillhandahållandet av information om den offentliga sektorn.

I stämningen med skadeståndsanspråk som lämnats till Justitiekanslern den 28 mars anger Reuters att Konjunkturinstitutet vid upprepade tillfällen överdebiterat Reuters för konjunkturprognoser som myndigheten tillhandahåller. Reuters anser att debiteringen är i strid med det så kallade PSI-direktivet, som är ett EU-direktiv.

Enligt Reuters har KI inte på ett korrekt sätt tillämpat PSI-direktivets bestämmelser trots att det infördes i Sverige i juli 2010. ”KIs avgifter ligger på en nivå som är avsevärt högre än deras rimliga kostnader”, skriver Reuters i skadeståndsanspråket.

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Är antagligen processtaktik för att dra det i tingsrätt, om det är det spår de tagit, kan vara processtaktiskt rätt och en snabbare väg till avgörande än via Förvaltningsrätt där de hamnar sist i kön.

2012-04-05T07:46:26-05:00

"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it." - Thomas Sowell

China nabbing 'great deal' of U.S. military secrets | The Digital Home - CNET News

2012-04-03T13:34:16-05:00

It's no secret the U.S. and China are waging a clandestine cyberwar. National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander says it's hitting home hard.

Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday, Gen. Alexander said that China is stealing a "great deal" of the U.S. military's intellectual property, adding that the NSA sees "thefts from defense industrial base companies." According to a story in Information Week, he declined to provide any information on those attacks. However, he did confirm speculation swirling around the security space that China was behind last year's attacks on RSA.

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Svenska bostäder kraftigt övervärderade - DN.SE

2012-03-31T07:08:37-05:00

Bostäderna i Sverige är övervärderade. Det visar tidningen The Economists genomgång.

Tidningens kvartalsgenomgång visar att priserna har sjunkit mycket i USA efter den ekonomiska krisen, men i Sverige är situationen annorlunda. Trots ett prisfall på 2,8 procent det senaste året är marknaden fortfarande övervärderad. Priserna har jämförts med inkomster och hyresnivåer och då är övervärderingen 23-29 procent, skriver DI som citerar The Economist.

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Sedan 2007 har jag sagt att Sverige skiljer sig markant från andra länder i disponibel inkomst ./. bostadspriser. I Texas köper folk hus 3-4 ggr sina inkomster, i Sverige 7 - 8 ggr.

Defense Tech | The future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security

2012-03-31T07:06:19-05:00

Well, it’s been pretty obviuos for a while now that China’s been hacking into some of America’s most important businesses and government agencies and stealing reams of data. We’ve heard countless reports about Pentagon info being stolen orabout critical data on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter being plucked from defense contractors networks — with China being the main suspect.
Well, former U.S. counter-terrorism czar –currently running his own cybersecurity firm — Richard Clarke is coming out and saying that all electronics made in China may well have built-in trapdoors allowing Chinese malware to infect American systems on command. The malware could do everything from take over a device to disabling it to secretly siphoning information off of it.
Just remember, plenty of military electronics parts are sourced from China too. U.S.-based defense contractors routinely buy things like processors and circuit boards — that end up on the Pentagon’s most advanced weapons, everything from fighter jets to nuclear submarines — from brokers who get such parts in China. As you know, these parts often prove fake, something that’s dangerous enough due to the high risk of a fake part failing. What’s to stop real parts made in China from carrying an equally dangerous cyber trapdoor?

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Lockheed’s Response to the F-35 Cost Growth Report | Defense Tech

2012-03-31T06:52:32-05:00

Here’s F-35 Joint Strike Figther-maker Lockheed Martin’s response to this morning’s news that the cost to purchase and sustain the Pentagon’s fleet of 2,443 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters over the next five decades has grown to $1.45 trillion.

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I ett svenskt perspektiv kan det påverka närområdet eftersom Norge tänkt sig köpa F-35.

"FRA är ett större hot än tillgång" - TechWorld

2012-03-29T11:42:33-05:00

Jan Kallberg har träffsäkert förutspått den tekniska utvecklingen vid flera tillfällen.

Han förutsåg bland annat den digitala revolutionen med mp3 redan på 90-talet. När han skrev en masteruppsats på Stockholms universitet prickade han också in phishing som ett kommande problem, ungefär sju år innan det faktiskt blev ett problem.

Han gav nyligen också ut boken "Framtidens internet som hot och möjlighet - ett tjugoårigt perspektiv till år 2030" där han belyser flera områden som rör internets utveckling och vilka problem vi kommer att brottas med. För en vecka sedan besökta han Stockholm för att medverka i ett seminarium som ordnades av internetstiftelsen Punkt SE, och som tog avstamp i hans bok.

TechWorld blev nyfikna på att höra hur han ser på dagens it-Sverige.

I Sverige har vi de senaste åren pratat mycket om de olika lagar som många uppfattar som intergritetskränkande, hur ser du på det?

- Förr eller senare bygger hela it-samhället på utbyte av data, och där tror jag personligen att vi kommer få en sammanklappning vad gäller personlig integritet. Det är ofrånkomligt.

- Med alla nya möjligheter att spara resurser och pengar genom olika tekniker som kan vara integritetskränkande uppstår frågan om till exempel PUL är värt så mycket att det ska få förhindra att de här saker genomförs, eller om PUL ska slaktas? Och då tror jag att man väljer att slakta PUL. Så enkelt är det.

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