USA National Military Strategy 2011 + RECAP
Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Marcus Aurelius. Comments below the line
Why Boeing is Imploding–Spinney, Sprey, & Reality vs Political Engineering & Government Spec Cost Plus
Below are three separate contributions: Spinney on Sprey; Sprey on Boeing; and Seattle Times on Boeing. CHUCK SPINNEY SOUNDS OFF President Obama says that restoring America’s competitiveness is one of his top priorities. Yet under his watch, deindustrialization, financialization, and globalization continue without interruption. Many advocates of defense spending argue that spinoffs from the Pentagon’s …
Hacktivists Strike Back…Egypt Facebook Hero…
‘Hacktivists’ retaliate against security expert By Joseph Menn in San Francisco Financial Times February 7 2011 22:53 The cyber-activist group Anonymous reacted quickly over the weekend to infiltration by a US security analyst, hacking into his personal online accounts and computers and distributing thousands of e-mails and other documents. The attack embarrassed researcher Aaron Barr, …
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Hackers target NASDAQ Site
By GRAHAM BOWLEY The New York Times Published: Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 1:00 a.m. Computer hackers have repeatedly breached the systems of the company that runs the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York but did not penetrate the part of the system that handles trades, according to several law enforcement officials.
Information Operations Newsletter Vol 11 No 01
IO Newsletter is back….. Short URL for all issues is http://www.oss.net/IO ARSTRAT IO Newsletter v11 no 01.doc See Also: Internet Work-Arounds for Egypt Et Al
AFIO Selected Headlines: Google, Woolsey, Hayden
Google Comes Under Fire for ‘Secret’ Relationship with NSA. Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google’s privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into the Internet giant’s “cozy” relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration. In a letter sent Monday, Consumer Watchdog asked Representative Darrell Issa, the new chairman …
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BLOWBACK, Legitimate Grievances, & Integrity Lost
Phi Beta Iota: The announcement of the Egyptian Army that it recognizes the “legitimate grievances” of the public and that it will not use force is in fact a recognition of both the substance of the public grievances, and the fact that force would backfire–there are not enough guns on the planet to repress the …
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