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

We can stop cyber-terrorism with “secure email”?

The third-largest U.S. defense contractor insists they can stop the apocalypse of a “digital war” if everyone switches to “secure email”…

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Apr 28 2008

Wikipedia “Cyber-terrorism” article

Wikipedia’s “cyber-terrorism” article garnered some much-needed criticism from one of the many curators of knowledge out there…

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Apr 28 2008

“We need to terrify” politicians about cyber crime?

The chief constable for the British Transport Police has called on Britons to wage a terror campaign (!) against the very politicians he works for. “We need to terrify” them, he proclaimed, because elected officials “don’t seem to have an appropriate sense of fear” when it comes to cyber crime…

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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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