Click on images to make them larger…. Installed, J&M system, Radar Detector Harness, various powerlet accessories, and in general made the bike more friendly for long distance riding.
Aligning strategy to goals in cyber warfare
First, there is no such thing as cyber warfare. There is war in the cyber domain and cyber will likely be an adjunct in the future towards other aims of war. Much like air, land and sea conflicts are adjuncts…
Experienced Rider Course: Considering risk in the activity of motorcycling
This past weekend I woke in the early morning around 4AM climbed on my motorcycle and rode from West Lafayette down to Evansville. On the border of Indiana and Kentucky I took a minor extension to my route and crossed…
DARPA Plan X: Weapons without an operational art
What does DARPA hope to achieve with Plan X? On the outside it looks like they are looking for battlefield mapping or tools for situational awareness. It looks like they are looking for point and shoot weapons and techniques for…
Where I’ve been on a motorcycle
Sam’s trips by motorcycle Sydney’s trips by motorcycle
Cybery stuff, life stuff, and more…
Once again I changed the tag line of the blog. One reason is that Syd is no longer a professor. As a women, with over a decade professorial experience in high education, primarily teaching in STEM, and creating and adapting…
Noisy China: Cyber conflict and population as capability
Why does China show up in the media about cyber espionage, war, and such so often? Other than the simplistic answer is they are hacking the living dawg puddle out of everybody there has to be a reason for the…
Motorcycles I’ve ridden
The new ride…
The new ride is a 2012 K1600GTL from BMW. This bike replaces my BMW K1200LTC I sold prior to going to Washington DC. In the fall prior to taking the job in Washington I knew I didn’t want to be…
An ode to Andy Marshall the strategist
He is an anachronism as the current longest-serving government leader. He is Andrew Marshall the strategist not the footballer and like a ghostly figment he haunts my studies and thoughts. As the head of the Office of a Net Assessment…
Academic with…
PhD in computer forensics, security clearance, and extensive experience in cyber warfare seeks US government partner in research and destabilization of hostile nations. -My advertisement for Plan X
Thinking about risk: Active defense
If we can agree… (e.g. Ryan and Ryan heuristic). Then most policy, mechanisms, and effort has in the past been at decreasing vulnerabilities. FISMA, IAVA’s, patches, etc. are all part of the mitigation of vulnerabilities. They are not countermeasures. This was…
Long Way Down: Episode 5
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman did a television show a few years back on riding around the world, “The long way around.” They then a few years after that rode from Scotland down to South Africa, “The long way down.”…
The reasons a “cyber attack” is NOT going to happen
In a thought exercise we can look at why something isn’t going to happen regardless of how we feel about it. The idea is to raise up some of the concerns about a concept and evaluate it from differing viewpoints.…
Decisions… Decisions… whackings and smackings
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