I am taking a break from my normal publishing routine to celebrate the founding of our country by the scruffy band of traitors, insurgents, and terrorists, led by rich, white slaveholders, that put their lives at stake to create this great nation.
As far as the English Crown was concerned, they were a bunch of traitors and rabble-rousers. One man’s terrorist is another ...
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Because I live in Minnesota and grew up here, I occasionally find a story with local interest. When I first read the headline for this story in an email from the Smithsonian, I assumed they were going to be talking about the urban experiment that was Jonathan, southwest of the Twin Cities near Chanhassen.
We have more attorneys per person in America than any other country on the planet. This causes problems, because there are too many attorneys chasing too few ambulances, and not enough real attorney work to go around. It has long been my contention that the attorneys we elect to public office, in the Legislatures, Courts, and Executive branches of our governments are the ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.In June 2015, a British boy named Kane Gamble—who was 15 years old then—targeted CIA heads and FBI directors and gained ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Sometime around April 3—give or take about a week—China’s 9.5-ton Tiangong-1 space station will fall out of orbit and enter Earth’s atmosphere. While media reports for the last few months have hyped the “uncontrolled” de-orbit as ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland.
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Today we finish our story on the history of cyber warfare.
Attributed to Edward Snowden. The target was the National Security Agency of the United States. Snowden was a former CIA employee, who, while working for Booz Allen Hamilton as a contractor to the NSA, copied and leaked NSA information, particularly the computer exploits that the NSA used abroad and in ...
Continue Reading →Today we continue our report on the history of cyber warfare.
Cyber attack attributed to the United States, Israel, Germany, and possibly Great Britain. Confirmed by General James Cartwright in November 2012. Target was Iran, particularly the Nuclear Program facility at Natanz. The excellent documentary Zero Days covers this operation in detail.
Since the Natanz facility was not connected ...
Continue Reading →Cyberwarfare is becoming a more prevalent form of cyber-attack, and one that may be hard for an individual or a small business owner to understand or defend against. Of Friday we took a look at the definition and practice of cyber war. This week we will review the history cyberwar incidents, the attackers, the targets, and the outcome of the best known cyberwarfare ...
What is a cyber warfare attack exactly, and what is it that separates it from a garden variety cyber attack? When does a cyber attack cross the line into actual warfare? Is it a cyber attack launched by a nation-state or other political or quasi-political entity against the resources of another nation-state? What separates cyber war from actual armed conflict? The answers are surprising.
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