An attempt to use current events to help make sense of computer security.
Category: Technology
How Many Holes in a Gohor Stick?
This isn’t about .com vs .gov, it’s about lives.
Business Does Not Care About Your Chinese Cyber Problem
Companies that suffer the fate of Ellery and Nortel are notable because they are rare.
We Are Our Own Worst Enemy
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 […]
Dust off Khrushchev while we’re at it
“Cyber” is pretty much the closest thing to a perfect weapon anyone has seen in history.
The Importance of Being There
If you’re not there, you don’t own it.
Killing Trees for Cyberspace
Where I stick my wet pinky finger in Bob Gourley’s ear.
Turn Away from the (Fulda) Gap
For solutions to the info war, ignore calls to revisit the cold one
Avoiding a Kluster ****
National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs), are supposed to be a collaborative effort of every agency (in reality, every agency with a dog in that particular fight). […]
Spooks in the Machine
I was called a philistine and worse for suggesting that virtual worlds like Second Life were anything but digital paradises where people were able to […]