This week we have seen the swing from discussion of cyber warfare between North Korea and South Korea swing to analysis of pending United States legislation. As to the Koreas whether a possible nation state hack on a bank is…
This week in cyber conflict: April 25th to April 29th
An interesting week in cyber warfare news. The revelation of an Iranian “second” virus has many discussing targeting techniques. In an interesting set of counter threads through the media one thread merges the messaging of cloud infrastructures (recent Amazon failures…
This week in cyber conflict: April 17th to April 22nd
A lot of interesting things happening in cyber conflict this week. Early in the week nation state conflict in cyber space was the primary area of news coverage. It appears that government and media are very interested in the activities…
The dearth of thinking: Conceptions of a cyber security
Lies can take on a form and function that is beyond the first utterance and deeper than the lasting effect. “I’m from the government I’m here to help you”, “the check is in the mail”, and “trust me” all come…
Forging the future from the scraps of yesterday and the hopes of tomorrow
It is interesting to me when I see people with grand visions of the future of computing. I enjoy the excitement of some relatively arcane conceptual leap somebody makes regarding technology. I just rarely share that excitement. Most people when…
Information Technology: String to networks
It’s an issue that has plagued information technology discipline for a long time. One part information technology professionals, one part users, one part vendor hegemony the reality is a broken culture and system of getting things done in cyber space.…
Ted.Com Conversations: Can people who deny science be educated? How?
(From Ted.Com Conversations) We have seen that throughout time science is not merely affected but driven by the political climates of the present era. There are the overt controls put on science inquiry through legal exigencies and funding of scientific…
Ted.Com Conversations: Do you agree that using media should fully replace the traditional ways of teaching?
(From Ted.Com Conversations) The net generation isn’t necessarily a technology generation. You can point to surveys, you can point to various industry groups, but inherently there is a flaw in the expectations. Assumption that you can program a VCR (who…
Ted.Com Conversations: William Gibson said “The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” What futures have you seen that are here, but unrecognized?
(From Ted.Com Conversations) The sophisticated technologists will likely look at Gibsons perspective from a networkcentric or computer enhanced position. Yet his writing was talking about consistent themes of the human condition. The computer has been with us in one form…
Ted.Com Conversations: Can people who deny science be educated? How?
(From Ted.Com Conversations) We have seen that throughout time science is not merely affected but driven by the political climates of the present era. There are the overt controls put on science inquiry through legal exigencies and funding of scientific…
Ted.Com Conversations: What is the difference between an artist and a scientist?
(From Ted.Com Conversations) The artist and scientist are not the same. The artist seeks to find truth through the creative process unrestricted by rules or onerous conditions other than those that are self imposed. The scientist is fettered by the…
Predictions for 2011: Another year and another host of ideas
So each year I have a set of predictions that I put forward. I started back in 2007, skipped a few years formalizing the process, but did so again last year. This year I have a few counter group think…
The collision of small wars and cyber wars is not a wikileaked Internet
What is cyber warfare? The term sent around the Internet like some kind of rhetorical catch all for computing abuse is nearing on useless. There are concepts that are inclusive of cyber warfare and what it likely means. If we…
Cyber Fugue
There is a desire by a constituency to promote solutions to problems that they are uniquely suited to solving. If asked about how to clean up air pollution a mechanic will likely tell you to tune up your car and…
Suggested Research Study: The resiliency debt
In “The Nine Nations of North America” by Joel Garreau his basic principles for what was in 1981 a radical notion and then became more mainstream was floated on a simple idea. There was no major sociological or political science…