MILNET Headlines, 25 February 2010

Afghanistan:  Night Raids Violate Afghans’ Deepest Moral Code Cloud:  Ranum& Peterson Vidoe on Cloud Computing Commentary:  Opinion: Running Out of Time Copyright:  New ACTA Leak–U.S., Korea, Singapore, Denmark Do Not Support  Transparency Cyber-Security:  Cybersecurity Coordinator Lacks Accountability Cyber-Security:  Federal Regulation Urged on Cybersecurity Cyber-Security:  Software Defects Threaten Census Rollout Cyber-Security:  US Would Lose Cyberwar Cyber-Security: …

MILNET Headlines, 24 February 2010

Bush-Obama Share Lawyers:  My Gift to President Obama Corporate Misbehavior:  Blackwater in Kabul, or Eric Cartman gets an AK-47 Corporate Misbehavior: Microsoft Takes Down Whistleblower Site, Read the Secret Doc Here Corporate Misbehavior: Must Watch TV: Blackwater’s ‘Team South Park’ vs the Senate Cyber-Security: Avoiding a Digital Dark Age Cyber-Security: Determining the motives for cyberattacks …

MILNET Headlines, 23 February 2010

ClimateGate as Crime:  Climategate Meets the Law, Senator Calls for Criminal Investigation Commentary:  Beware of ‘Comprehensive’ Anything Cuber-Security:  Who runs cyber policy? Cyber-Security:  ‘Sophisticated’ Hack Hit Intel in January Cyber-Security:  Cyber attacks will ‘catastrophically’ spook public, warns GCHQ Iraq:  Iraq watchdog proposes new agency to manage reconstruction US Congress:  Two Million So Congress Can Watch …

MILNET Headlines, 22 February 2010

China:  Hacking Inquiry Puts China’s Elite in New Light Commentary:  Vindicating John Yoo Corporate Mis-Behavior:  Citigroup May Restrict Bank Withdrawals Cyber-Security:  Software Errors Placing Networks at Risk Cyber-Security: US Pinpoints Coder Behind Google Attack Cyber-Security: Where Have All the MANPADS Gone? Iraq:  Baghdad’s Crucible, Washington’s Disinterest US Intelligence:  Remarks by the Director of National Intelligence …

Search: how much is al-qaeda worth?

Very cool question.  We don’t have the answers, but here are a few thoughts. Who benefits? There is only one beneficiary of Al Qaeda as a virtual actor: the US Military-Industrial-Intelligence-Congressional Complex whose outrageously wasteful funding and excessive (70%) obligations to contractors are bankrupting the US economy, but who cares as long as the corporate …

MILNET Headlines, 18 February 2010

Abuse:  CIA Torture Case Entangles U.K. Government, Prompts Charges of Cover-Up Afghanistan:  Empty Skies Over Afghanistan Anti-Privacy:  Pa. school spied on students via laptops Cyber-Security:  Cyberattack simulation highlights vulnerabilities Cyber-Security:  Hackers Troops rejoice, Pentagon Lifts Thumb Drive Ban Cyber-Security:  Large Worldwide Cyber Attack Is Uncovered Threat—Crime: Joint effort targets border crime Threat—Wall Street: Wall Street’s …

MILNET Headlines 17 February 2010

Air Sensor:  Army seeks to revive airships as sensor platforms Cyber-Diplomacy: US officials, Web executives to visit Russia Cyber-Security:  Congress urged to move one cybersecurity bill Cyber-Security:  New IP task force brings “stronger and stricter enforcement” Cyber-Security:  Simulation shows government lacks policies needed to respond Cyber-Security:  Software developers are to blame for most cyberattacks, Cyber-Security:  …