Cyber-Spending: A Culture of Failure without Liability

The Success of Failure By Shane Harris sharris@nationaljournal.com April 4, 2007 Government Executive In 1999, program managers at the National Security Agency knew they were in trouble. A new and important electronic filtering system, code-named Trailblazer, wasn’t working as designed. Planners imagined it would automatically find phone calls, e-mails and electronic communications of terrorists and …

Journal: Corporate Hijacking of Cyber-Space

OPINION DECEMBER 19, 2010 The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom ‘Net neutrality’ sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers. By ROBERT M. MCDOWELL WS Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking …

Journal: Cyber-Idiocy Wipes Out Productivity

Information has never been so free. Even in authoritarian countries information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable. — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, January 21, 2010 So much for that…. Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks By Noah Shachtman, Wired, December 9, 2010  |  7:02 …

Graphic: Cyber-Threat 101

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