Berto Jongman: FBI Crisis — Playing Catch-Up on Cyber

Identity crisis: FBI plays catch-up as cyberthreats escalate Now “every field office has a cyber squad” modeled after lessons learned fighting terrorism, said Ugoretz, speaking earlier this year at a conference in Sea Island, Ga. Some field offices are being assigned as leads for specific attacks or threat actors, she said. There is also a …

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, …

Berto Jongman: Future IoT Needs Privacy & Security by Design

IoT Future Needs Privacy, Security by Design “A significant number of smart devices, including smart CCTV cameras, thermostats or smart TVs, are insecure by design,” said Petrus. “It’s not even possible to make some of them more secure as they’ve been made with hard-coded account names and passwords that can’t be changed.”

Berto Jongman: Has General Vincent Stewart, USMC, Figured Out that US Has Cyber All Wrong? BRAVO ZULU!

Is the Defense Department’s entire vision of cybersecurity wrong? “What if the way we’ve structured Cyber Command and our thinking about this space, what if it’s wrong?” Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command, said during a keynote presentation at the CyCon U.S. conference in Washington Nov. 14. Cyber Command’s latest command …

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Bottlenecks — Still There, Getting Worse

Speeding Up Search: The Challenge of Multiple Bottlenecks I read “Search at Scale Shows ~30,000X Speed Up.” I have been down this asphalt road before, many times in fact. The problem with search and retrieval is that numerous bottlenecks exist; for example, dealing with exceptions (content which the content processing system cannot manipulate). I wish …

Robert Steele: Creating a Post-Western Independent Internet (Trump Revolution 22)

Creating a Post-Western Independent Internet An Open Source Internet Can Create Peace and Prosperity for All Memorable URL: http://tinyurl.com/post-google-internet Robert David Steele The recent decision by President Vladimir Putin to create an independent Internet with a separate Domain Name System (DNC) that is impervious to Western attack including data corruption and mis-representation is a good …