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…
(Click the headline to read this article )The U.S. Air Force CIO, Lt. General Michael Peterson, last updated the “news and events” portion of his website in early April…
(Click the headline to read this article )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…
(Click the headline to read this article )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?
(Click the headline to read this article )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?
(Click the headline to read this article )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?
(Click the headline to read this article )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…
(Click the headline to read this article )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…
(Click the headline to read this article )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…
(Click the headline to read this article )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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