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Category: Computer Security

Computer Security, Intelligence, Security, Technology

You Were Promised Neither Security Nor Privacy

March 14, 2014February 21, 2020 Mike 6 mins read

You can still live your life without using TCP/IP or HTTP, you just don’t want to.

Computer Security, Defense, National Security, Reform, Security, Technology

Between Preppers and FEMA Trailers

October 1, 2013April 23, 2021 Mike 4 mins read

Unless you want to suffer through the digital equivalent of life in a FEMA trailer, you need to take some responsibility.

Computer Security, Humor, Information Security, Intelligence, National Security, News, Reform, Security, Technology

Stop Pretending You Care (about the NSA)

September 5, 2013April 23, 2021 Mike 7 mins read

Let’s be honest about what the vast majority of people mean when they say they care about their privacy…

Computer Security, Law Enforcement, News, Reform, Security, Technology, Terrorism

Explaining Computer Security Through the Lens of Boston

April 20, 2013April 23, 2021 Mike 3 mins read

An attempt to use current events to help make sense of computer security.

Computer Security, News, Security, Technology

Business Does Not Care About Your Chinese Cyber Problem

February 29, 2012October 18, 2020 Mike 5 mins read

Companies that suffer the fate of Ellery and Nortel are notable because they are rare.

Computer Security, Reform, Security, Technology

We Are Our Own Worst Enemy

December 1, 2011October 18, 2020 Mike 1 min read

My latest op-ed in SC Magazine: It is tough being in cybersecurity. Defense is a cost center, and it’s hard to find meaningful metrics to […]

Computer Security, Information Security, Intelligence, National Security, News, Security, Technology

Dust off Khrushchev while we’re at it

June 15, 2011October 18, 2020 Mike 2 mins read

“Cyber” is pretty much the closest thing to a perfect weapon anyone has seen in history.

Computer Security, Information Security, Reform, Technology

Killing Trees for Cyberspace

May 19, 2011October 18, 2020 Mike 4 mins read

Where I stick my wet pinky finger in Bob Gourley’s ear.

Computer Security, Information Security, National Security, Reform, Security, Technology

Turn Away from the (Fulda) Gap

February 28, 2010October 18, 2020 Mike 7 mins read

For solutions to the info war, ignore calls to revisit the cold one

Computer Security, Information Operations

don’t forget . . .

January 30, 2008July 1, 2015 Mike 1 min read

. . . when you read stories like this, that it’s cyber war we need to worry about.

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