Toward a cyber security strategy by Ron Deibert Incidences of cyber espionage, computer network attacks, and cyber security now dominate news worldwide. Many governments are shoring up their cyber security; others are developing computer network attack capabilities as part of their doctrine. How is Canada approaching cyberspace? The answer is troubling. At present, Canada has [...]
Apple announced that it is going to be giving the MobileMe Mail web-app a makeover and it is personally giving users of the MobileMe service an invitation to use the new design of the web software while it is in beta. MobileMe members can log onto me.com and opt-in to receive an invite for the [...]
There has been a zombie satellite in space for the last few days. Apparently, the sun’s radiation—or space Gremlins—turned it into a rogue spacecraft. Since then, Galaxy 15 has been threatening other cable TV satellites, like MTV’s. While ground control hasn’t been able to disconnect Galaxy 15, they have been able to force some intricate [...]
You can tell from my expression that this is what I was thinking: “I bet you double click hyperlinks.”
Coincidences sure are funny things. Booz Allen Hamilton — the defense contractor that’s become synonymous with the idea that the U.S. is getting its ass kicked in an ongoing cyberwar — has racked up more than $400 million worth of deals in the past six weeks to help the Defense Department fight that digital conflict. [...]
The size of the Information Universe is currently 800,000 petabytes. Each petabyte is a million gigabytes, or the equivalent of 1,000 one-terabyte hard drives. If you stored all of this data on DVDs, the study’s authors say, the stack would reach from the Earth to the moon and back. That’s a 62% increase over the [...]
Is there anything that quantum physics and the universe that can teach us about cyberspace? How we relate to the unseen that shape our lives? Can we control cyberspace or will it control us? Or are all of these questions irrelevant or just completely irrelevant?
Since I’m inundated with the standard end-of-the-semester-paper-turmoil, which is why I haven’t been posting much, I’m going to reblog this Wired.com article by Ryan Singel which I found 1) spot on; 2) I couldn’t have assessed it better; 3) OH the frustration I have with Clarke and 3) LOL, just read… Readers of Richard Clarke’s [...]
