Mini-Me: General Alexander Wants to Legislate “Critical Systems” IT Security

Huh? NSA’s Gen. Alexander: Companies Should Be Required To Fortify Networks Against Cyberattack By Ellen Nakashima Checkpoint Washington (Washingtonpost.com), May 4, 2012 Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the nation’s largest spy agency and its cyberwarfare command, is urging adoption of legislation to require companies providing critical services such as power and transportation to fortify …

Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

Bombing at the Speed of Thought: Intelligence in the Coming Age of Cyberwar (2003) For Israel’s elite army intel unit, errors of the past send a spying eye into the future Hitlerland: Andrew Nagorski discusses Hitler’s rise to power and Nazi Germany as seen through the eyes of Americans—diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes—who …

DefDog: Afghanistan security deal Obama signed has holes

This represents one of the dishonorable acts a politician can commit. Using other people’s lives to win an election…….a clear indication of the lack of integrity of an individual who holds the highest office of the land….and the speech sounds like it was modeled after LBJ’s equally incoherent speech in the closing days of Viet-Nam.  …

Berto Jongman: Interesting National Security Links

C.I.A.’s Misuse of Secrecy C-SPAN Bill Roggio Editor Long War Journal Use of Military Drones with Statistics (VIDEO) EU Annual Report on Terrorism Gwen Olsen – the Rx Reformer Memories of Bin Laden are fading, but his methods and ideology remain Senate follows House with more questions about construction of Savannah River Site’s MOX plant Terrorism …

Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

Al Qaeda Struggles with Training, Diminishing World Influence, says TRAC Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation Has the internet run out of ideas already? Internet censorship listed: how does each country compare? Internet Hall of Fame (Pioneers, Innovators, …