Category: Dionysius AFB

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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Aug 10 2009

“Lord AFB” on the horizon?

“Some­day they’re going to name a base after a [cyber­space] hero…”

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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 20 2009

I can’t save the airmen, so I’ll save the sailors

An open letter to U.S. Navy CIO Robert J. Carey…

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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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Dec 03 2008

Part 2: USAF CIO on hiatus, or what?

{Updated 8 Dec 08} The USAF CIO, Lt. General Michael Peterson, finally updated his stag­nant web­site — with five civilian news­paper articles. First of all, did he obtain the reprint rights, or is this a blatant copy­right viola­tion? And second, why didn’t he high­light some of USAF’s many organic press releases…?

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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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