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Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

August 16, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

Werner Herzog brings his dour brand of whimsy to LO AND BEHOLD, REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD, his consideration of cyberspace. The result is a thought-provoking piece that brings up little-known issues and implications, placing them side by side with the more conventional topics of security and dependence.  Indeed, the most arresting moment in the… Read More »

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, birth of the internet, Elon Musk, FBI, hacking, internet privacy, internet security, Kevin Mitnick, NSA

ZERO DAYS — Alex Gibney, Eric Chien & Liam O’Murchu

July 6, 2016 By Leave a Comment

ZERO DAYS — Alex Gibney, Eric Chien & Liam O’Murchu

Liam O’Murchu was the first person at Symantec to see the STUXnet code, and, as he told me when we talked on May 11, 2016, red flags went off about the elegant coding and suspicious dearth of bugs. I was interviewing him along with his colleague, Eric Chien and with Alex Gibney, the documentarian who… Read More »

Tagged With: autonomous code, bugs, centrifuge, CIA, computer security, computer virus, cybercrime, deliberate misinformation, digital certificates, Edward Snowdon, Homeland Security, informant, internet, Iran, Iranian nuclear program, Israel, malicious software, malware, Michael Hayden, Mossad, National Security Agency, NSA, STUXNet, Symantec, tin foil hat, virtual surveillance, Vodaphone, wiretaps

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

April 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL is a film that plays with its audience’s sense of normality. Beginning in the conventional and slowly, almost imperceptibly, moving us from the quotidian drama of a kidnapped child and a father’s unconditional love, into a boldly unconventional consideration of that elusive point where science and spirituality merge. There is nothing predictable here,… Read More »

Tagged With: child abduction, end times, father-son, FBI, NSA, supernatural

Laura Poitras Meets CITIZENFOUR

January 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Laura Poitras Meets CITIZENFOUR

Laura Poitras was hoarse the day I interviewed her for CITIZENFOUR. Her remarkable eye-witness documentary about Edward Snowden leaking NSA secrets to the press resulted in everyone wanting to talk to her.  When we spoke, though, her dedication to bringing the truth to light was intact. I started by asking what it was like to… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, documentary, Edward Snowden, film, Glenn Greewald, Laura Poitras, media, movie, National Security Agency, NSA, Oscar Winner Best Documentary, Pulizter Prize, whistleblower

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