Aug
21
2008
USAF CIO on hiatus, or what?
The U.S. Air Force CIO, Lt. General Michael Peterson, last updated the “news and events” portion of his website in early April…
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Aug
14
2008
Press reports: “AFCYBER may be its own worst enemy”
Someone way high up in the Pentagon has put the birth of Air Force Cyberspace Command on hold. Is USAF its own worst enemy, as the media speculates? Actually, no — it’s the bureaucrats who want their agencies to reorganize under a cyberspace command for self-serving reasons…
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Aug
05
2008
Why does USAF ignore the most obvious cyberspace weapon system?
Irony, anyone? A bunch of peace-loving pacifists at Berkeley University developed the world’s most powerful “distributed accrual of service” weapon system. Why hasn’t the U.S. Air Force bothered to weaponize this idea?
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Aug
04
2008
Part 3: We can’t take ‘cyber-war’ or ‘cyber-terrorism’ seriously until…
Cyberspace weapon systems lack what every other military weapon system needs — a “brevity code” for clear, concise communications. For example, armies use brevity codes to transmit firing coordinates to an artilleryman or a tank commander. Why do cyberspace military units fail to understand the need for ultra-concise speech?
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Jul
28
2008
Embarrassing fact: AFCYBER doesn’t protect a lot of Air Force websites
Numerous Air Force units pay commercial ISPs to run their own websites. This fact raises an embarrassing question — how does AFCYBER protect these Air Force websites from devastating cyber attacks? If ISPs do all the network defense for the Air Force, then why does the Pentagon need USAF personnel to protect them from cyber attacks?
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Jul
10
2008
Does USAF count cyberspace sorties with extreme precision?
USAF tracks its air & space weapon systems with extreme precision. They can tell you exactly who flew exactly what type of mission for exactly what military operation on exactly what date at exactly what time for exactly how long in exactly which aircraft. But USAF doesn’t log very much at all about its cyberspace defense efforts…
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Jun
16
2008
Internet predicted to die by 2012
A viral video on YouTube insists the Internet as we know it will die by 2012 — killed not by a virus or worm as so often predicted, but by pure corporate greed…
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Jun
16
2008
Logic bomb = 2,000 pound JDAM?
Who needs smart bombs? The U.S. Air Force can wipe out terrorists with two clicks of a mouse…
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Jun
16
2008
AusCERT attendees learn firsthand about malware
If this happened at, say, a medical conference, the quoted computer security experts would tend to describe it in more cataclysmic terms. But when those same experts get whacked at a computer security trade show, well, it’s really just an embarrassment…
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May
05
2008
Shouldn’t DEFCON attendees think outside the box?
If you want to watch someone beat a dead horse, go right ahead, but this contest does nothing that we haven’t seen already. DEFCON would impress me if they held a contest to acquire root via the antivirus software…
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