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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