Marcus Aurelius: Anyone Can Hijack a Ship or Airplace Via GPS —

This is on the governments that failed to be responsible about cyber-security from day one. EXCLUSIVE: GPS flaw could let terrorists hijack ships, planes The world’s GPS system is vulnerable to hackers or terrorists who could use it to hijack ships — even commercial airliners, according to a frightening new study that exposes a huge …

Mini-Me: $75 Billion a Year, and US IC Still Cuts and Pastes Without Updating Years’ Old Information

Huh? US Intelligence Report a Cut-Paste on Chinese Missiles College students can be flunked for cut-and-paste reports, think tankers can be embarrassed, Defense News staff writers can be fired, but not, apparently, members of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). Most of its so-called “updated” report, 2013 Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, which …

Marcus Aurelius: IBM Tries Something New – The Gist Mill

Worth a look. The Gist Mill – Strategic Social Media Analysis The ability to rapidly ingest, identify, monitor and exploit relationships, trends and collective thought evolving out of Internet-based social networks will be the most critical analytic capability requirement of the next decade.  The fact that these networks exist in plain sight, are vastly dense, …

99% Android Devices Totally Open — How Long Before Open Source Security and Code Level Integrity Are Appreciated?

Mobile security startup Bluebox Security has unearthed a vulnerability in Android’s security model which it says means that the nearly 900 million Android phones released in the past four years could be exploited, or some 99% of Android devices. The vulnerability has apparently been around since Android v1.6 (Donut), and was disclosed by the firm to …

Mini-Me: Has Europe Been Castrated? Or Just Gotten a Lobotomy? Snowden Shitstorm Goes Global with “Virtual Kidnapping” of Bolivian President

Huh? Bolivia furious over Snowden jet claims Bolivia plane incident infuriates Latin America Barring of Bolivian Plane Infuriates Latin America as Snowden Case Widens Snowden case: Bolivia condemns jet ‘aggression’ Snowden case: France apologises in Bolivia plane row South American nations discuss Morales ‘virtual kidnapping’ Unasur Confirms Special Summit in Bolivia US admits contact with …