A long time ago, in an intelligence agency far, far away (across the Potomac)… …My colleagues and I used to produce a weekly report that went out across what was then the government’s information warfare community. You’ve never head of…
Author: Mike
“Cyber MAD” is a Bad Idea. Really Bad.
If the scenario you need to make your theory work in cyberspace is indistinguishable from a James Bond script, you can’t be taken seriously.
The Lessons of PFC Manning
The tragedy here is not that we were undone by a shit-bird GI who didn’t have his head screwed on straight, it’s that we will ignore what he is teaching us.
Incongruence Defined
How apropos that on the heels of the publication of one of the better ideas out there on how to improve the quality and accessibility of intelligence to consumers, we hear reports that the leadership of the IC wants to…
Malware Analysis: The Danger of Connecting the Dots
A lot of people fall victim to a number of problems, fallacies and mental traps when they attempt to draw conclusions from data
We’re Not Breaking Up Anything
Ever heard of the steam roller called Internet of Things? Something you should all be aware of: it’s riding on the Internet.
Cybersecurity month history lesson #1,283
Lesson number one when it comes to trying to assess the motivation of hackers: try not to hurt yourself.
Indictments In-schmightments
China is going to react to these events, and it is going to go badly for us in a public way.
You Were Promised Neither Security Nor Privacy
You can still live your life without using TCP/IP or HTTP, you just don’t want to.
Surveillance Protests: Get Serious or Go Home
With apologies to Benjamin Franklin, the only thing that is sure to get people’s attention is sex and taxes…”cyber” is an also-ran politically