Sec. Clinton is off in Estonia for a High Muckamuck level confab to talk about what NATO should be doing with itself. I think the biggest military alliance the world has ever seen has been managing to keep busy just
Sec. Clinton is off in Estonia for a High Muckamuck level confab to talk about what NATO should be doing with itself. I think the biggest military alliance the world has ever seen has been managing to keep busy just
The Fog of War is particularly foggy in cyberspace.
Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, NSA director and the new nominee to head up Cyber Command, produced 32 pages of answers to Senators’ questions leading up to his nomination hearings.
AP wrote a piece on one aspect: the Pentagon’s plan to …
Hold on to your hats.
In my last post I mentioned that the US and Russia were in complete agreement over one of the core problems of the Internet. From the same Times story:
During a panel discussion on computer crime, Col. Gen. Boris N. Miroshnikov, an official with the …
Governmental cyber officials from around the world met up in Germany this week to discuss international Internet security. The US hasn’t played a significant role in this hootenanny in the past.
There are some huge differences between the US and Russia on the role of the Internet. We’re concerned …
The Internet sure is good at misinformation. The saints at Snopes fix it one debunking at a time.
Cyberwar Bingo! An awesome tongue-in-cheek look at CyberAlarmism.
Michelle Bachmann (R-NUT) thinks the United States should keep the option of nuking nations who hit us with a cyber …
Looks like Bakiev’s government is out in Kyrgyzstan.
Opposition Claims Control in Kyrgyzstan – NYTimes.com.
This is wild and unexpected – your humble blogger spent a summer over there working with Internews, an independent free media advocate. It’s 5 years since they overthrew their last autocrat, but turned …
A bill by Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and co-sponsored by Olympia Snowe (R-ME) called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (yes, I know, but remember the Senate is, well, a bit slow) just dropped out of committee and may see floor action soon.*
It’s an interesting piece of work, and only …
The US isn’t the only target of Chinese hackers that-of-course-aren’t-government-sponsored-though-the-PLA-does-fund-hacking-research-in-their-school groups.
That other rising Asian great power – the one that fought a couple of wars with China and is harboring their archnemisis – got pwned in a bad way.
The NY Times has a story on it …
Fellow FPBer Sarah Repucci has another perspective on the Google-China breakup from a government accountability angle.
Social networking makes for really, really targeted marketing possibilities.
A bunch of advocacy groups dealing with Sudan are putting up Facebook ads aimed at people who work in Congress.
Your employer is part of your Facebook profile. So if it happens to be Congress, bing! (erm, not that …
Things that are important or interesting that I haven’t written about:
WikiLeaks is drumming up some hype before releasing video of a drone strike that claimed civilian lives. That’s not going to improve their relationship with the gummint.
Viral social networking is transforming the ability to
The Marines are onboard with this whole Social Networking thing, following along with guidelines from On High.
From Wired’s Danger Room
It’s a remarkable about-face. A Marine Corps order last summer described such sites as “a proven haven for malicious actors and content.” And it …
Bloomberg (home to belovedly hard-to-use finance info terminals, as well as actual news) notes that the Taliban systematically destroys the mobile phone infrastructure of the (shrinking?) chunks of Afghanistan they control.
Why?
Afghanistan, with 29 million people, had as many as 12 million cellular-service subscribers in December, according to …
GoDaddy, home of lousy Internet hosting and scandalous Super Bowl ads, has inexplicably been a success with their cut-rate domain registration and hosting.
Meanwhile, in the Middle Kingdom the Chinese government continues grasp as many levers of control over Internet users as possible.
To register your own web name in the …
Game’s up. Google has shut down its web search on the mainland. Google blog post; NYT story.
The company is attempting to route Chinese users to a simplified Chinese* Hong Kong site, where local legislation does not require them to censor their results. A clever attempt at …
