Steve Aftergood: DoD C4I (DODIN) Is Hosed….

DoD Network Operations Face a Contested Environment The actual network infrastructure is “antiquated and is failing at high rates,” Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson told the House Armed Services Committee last year in response to questions for the record in a newly published hearing volume.

Stephen E. Arnold: Industrial Catastrophic Sabotage Via the Cloud?

Juicy Target: Big Cloudy Agglomerations of Virtual and Tangible Gizmos What’s the implication? Forget Go to My PC vulnerabilities. Old news. The bad actors may have the opportunity to derail certain industrial and manufacturing processes. What happens when a chemical plant gets the wrong instructions. Remember the Port of Texas City mishap? A tragic failure. …

Berto Jongman: Tim Berners-Lee Thinks Web Can Be Fixed — PBI: Baloney.

Tim Berners-Lee still believes the web can be fixed, even today Phi Beta Iota: The article is worth reading — with high praise for what Berners-Lee did in the first place, we have to call BULLSHIT on his current claims. The Internet in its present state is like a syphilitic whore well past her prime, …

Stephen E. Arnold: Deep Fake News Videos Can Tip Election, Spark Violence …

Deep Fakes: A Tough Nut to Crack If you are in the media or intelligence business, you undoubtedly already know about the potential of deep fakes or “deepfake” videos. Clips that utilize AI technology to create realistic and completely fake videos using existing footage. The catch is that they are getting more and more convincing…and …