Cyberdeterrence Papers
This just came past my inbox: The National Research Council (NRC) is undertaking a project entitled “Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy.” The project is...
View ArticleDear England, may we borrow Mr. Cameron for a bit?
Back when I commented on David Cameron apologizing for Bloody Sunday, someone said “It’s important to remember that it’s much easier to make magnanimous apologise about the behaviour of government...
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Transparent Lies about Body Scanners
In “Feds Save Thousands of Body Scan Images,” EPIC reports: In an open government lawsuit against the United States Marshals Service, EPIC has obtained more than one hundred images of undressed...
View ArticleWikileaks
Friday night an arrest warrant went out, and was then rescinded, for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He commented “We were warned to expect “dirty tricks”. Now we have the first one.” Even the New...
View ArticleThe TSA’s Approach to Threat Modeling
“I understand people’s frustrations, and what I’ve said to the TSA is that you have to constantly refine and measure whether what we’re doing is the only way to assure the American people’s safety....
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The Emergent Chaos of Facebook relationships
This is a fascinating visualization of 10MM Facebook Friends™ as described in Visualizing Friendships by Paul Butler. A couple of things jump out at me in this emergent look at geography. The first is...
View ArticleQuestions about a Libyan no-fly zone
With the crisis in Japan, attention to the plight of those trying to remove Colonel Kaddafi from power in Libya has waned, but there are still calls, including ones from the Arab League, to impose a...
View ArticleCIA Reveals Identity of Bin Laden Hunter
In the Atlantic Wire, Uri Friedman writes “Did the CIA Do Enough to Protect Bin Laden’s Hunter?” The angle Friedman chose quickly turns to outrage that John Young of Cryptome, paying close attention,...
View Article60 billion dollars, and whadda ya get?
See more at How anyone can get anything past the TSA’s Nude body Scanners.
View ArticleWhat’s Classified, Doc? (The Clinton Emails and the FBI)
So I have a very specific question about the “classified emails”, and it seems not to be answered by “Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of...
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