Category: Politics of computer security

Sep 18 2009

Doolittle Raider: “we didn’t really think about the future”

If experts really were pondering the long-term conse­quences of cyber-warfare, they’d be talking about ephemeral concepts like cyber military grave­yards and cyber warfare museums and a solemn “Doolittle Cyber Raiders” ceremony every anni­ver­sary for 67 years to comme­mo­rate a fateful network attack…

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Jul 21 2009

Part 3: USAF CIO still on hiatus

Is this guy ROAD or what? He just got promoted for failing to use his official “bully pulpit 2.0″ for its intended purpose…

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Jul 14 2009

Murder on the AFCYBER Express

If you believe the official story line, USAF aborted “AFCYBER” only at the eleventh hour after they suffered a string of embarrassing nuclear accidents. Here, in Paul Harvey fashion, we reveal “the rest of the story…”

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Feb 16 2009

DNS redirection — do antivirus firms have the right to do it en masse?

A TechRepublic pundit dared to ask if anti­virus firms have the right to mani­pu­late DNS queries en masse to pro­tect society from the Downadup worm. This forces us to ask “Who watches the Watchmen?”

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Jan 28 2009

Why Symantec’s CEO shouldn’t be Obama’s Commerce Secretary

For at least two years, CEO John Thompson’s firm secretly turned over computer viruses to China’s oppressive government — and he kept both Clinton and Bush in the dark about it. News reports now say President Obama wants to nominate him for Commerce Secretary. So — what will “Secretary Thompson” keep secret from Obama?

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Jan 20 2009

SANS worries Obama inauguration itself threatens Internet

A blogger at SANS worries that innocent and well-meaning Internet users will threaten the very foundations of the Internet during the inauguration of Barack Obama…

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