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Nov 19 2008

Part 5: we can’t take ‘cyber-war’ or ‘cyber-terrorism’ seriously until…

President Lincoln consecrated the Gettysburg cemetery for soldiers who died in the Civil War. Will a future president consecrate a cemetery for airmen who died in a cyber war?

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Nov 17 2008

William T. Lord != Herbert E. Carter

It appears Carter’s pioneering contributions to racial desegregation aren’t as important to society as Lord’s pioneering contributions to the militarization of cyberspace

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Nov 14 2008

Part 4: we can’t take ‘cyber-war’ or ‘cyber-terrorism’ seriously until…

What will our ancestors see when they visitlogin to a military cyberspace museum one hundred years from now? To hear the Air Force say it, military museums of tomorrow will display antique “qwerty” keyboards and reproductions of cubicles…

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Nov 13 2008

Cyberspace flying exec?

A “flying exec” is slang for an Air Force combat pilot who pulls double duty, flying both an aircraft and a desk. If AFCYBER’s commanding general had a flying exec … what did he/she fly & fight with?

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Nov 13 2008

Bartender! A round of cyber medals for everyone

When it’s all said & done, USAF will pin medals on the midwives who delivered this stillborn baby. And everybody’s performance report will make it sound like he/she actually did stand up a major command…

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Nov 11 2008

The face of a non-cyber hero

I stood in front of a flagpole today and listened to a Vietnam veteran tell me about the horrors of his two tours. I wanted to say “let’s remember the network warriors who suffer in the comfort of their cubicles,” but I kept my mouth shut…

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Sep 29 2008

USAF beams with pride over an absurd cyber-terror movie

USAF beams with pride over an absurd cyber-terror movie...USAF wants to help Hollywood make movies that make USAF look like a bunch of cyber-imbeciles. “Air Force Cyberspace Command is your ally when the plot involves an Air Force-owned supercomputer that goes insane and hacks into an MQ-9 UAV to blow up critical U.S. infrastructures near the nation’s capitol…”

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Sep 17 2008

Overseas air base holds a contest at AFCYBER’s expense

Remember when USAF published a classified publicity photo? An overseas air base has launched a contest to identify all the boo-boos in the photo. The winner gets two free large pizzas…

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Sep 08 2008

Would you do something this partisan at your mother’s 60th birthday bash?

During USAF’s sixtieth anniversary celebration, a ranking officer chose to highlight a NON-flying “cyber” unit over the legendary squadrons that prowled the First World War. He or she ignored many legendary flying units with Medal of Honor recipients in World War II and the Korean War…

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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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