Category: Dionysius AFB

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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Apr 28 2008

AFCYBER seeks fat Airmen with criminal records

The commander of AFCYBER wants you to think the Air Force only just started to look at hackers. Bah! When I enlisted as a computer programmer in 1982, I was surrounded by socially inept hackers with acceptable physical standards who started off the day with a can of soda back when coffee was the only acceptable morning beverage…

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Apr 28 2008

From the “we don’t make this up” dept:

USAF’s latest “Air Force must put Hollywood out of a job” opinion piece is truly hilarious. This is what you get when a public relations dweeb thinks he’s a cyberspace pundit…

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Feb 03 2008

What’s wrong with this picture?

The U.S. Air Force seems far too eager to pitch its new "cyberspace" mission. Case in point: their brand-new Cyberspace Command published a classified publicity photo on their website. And shouldn’t you put your best foot forward in a publicity photo…?

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