Waging cyber warfare is seen as a technology problem by technologists, a policy problem by politicians, and a profit problem by businesses. This confluence of concerns is likely due to the prevalent nature of technology in our daily lives. The…
Today’s photo – January 30, 2012
The industrial devolution and disenfranchised knowledge worker
Higher education exists to terrorize and bankrupt students with tuition costs (double, triple, insert value here) the rate of inflation. It is a current meme in public policy and though higher education has its issues this is a crock and…
Today’s Photo – January 23, 2012
Dissertation – Defended
I have successfully defended my dissertation for a PhD from Purdue University. The title of the dissertation is “Cyber warfare as a form of conflict: Evaluation of models of cyber conflict as a prototype to conceptual analysis”, and my advisor…
Today’s Photo – January 16, 2012
Vegetarian – it’s not about finding a meat substitute
In our vegetarian experiment we have tried a number of meat substitutes. We have tried tofu, tempeh, and seitan. Now for the confession. We hate them all. No one in the family likes the texture or the taste. I have…
Today’s Photo – January 9, 2012
Information theory and the need for deep thinking
On my two hour run today I was thinking about information security and the research vectors that I see within the discipline. I don’t publish very much so I have little effect on the space. I was thinking about how…
Words matter
This is a little bit of a rant. I have been noticing an increase in over the top marketing language. We have revolutionary new products. We have wars on everything from drugs to Christmas. We see it and hear it…