Blake Percival, IC Security Clearance Whistleblower, Wins One on the Margins

The whistleblower who exposed U.S.’s flawed security clearance system finally gets his reward By Christian Davenport, The Washington Post, 18 December 2015 “I hate that we dump,” one of them confided. “What do you mean?” Blake Percival asked. The answer — that the company was cutting corners performing the federal background checks used in granting …

DefDog: John Hamre Gets It Wrong — and Politico Lets Him Slide — “Electronic Pearl Harbor” is Original to Winn Schwartau

The ‘electronic Pearl Harbor’ Eighteen years ago I was the first to use that term publicly. It was the wrong analogy then. Not anymore. The phrase became a touchstone in the long national argument over cybersecurity, for better or worse. I was not the author of the phrase. That honor goes to a dear friend of …

UNASUR: Agencia de Fuentes Abiertas (de technologia)

Para el Secretario General de UNASUR: esta idea ha sido presentado a los líderes de los Estados Unidos de América y probablemente será ignorado. Esta sería una excelente iniciativa con la que comenzar la moderna independencia y auto-sostenible prosperidad de las Américas. Les deseo todas las posibilidades en el futuro. Respetuosamente, Robert David STEELE Vivas MEMORANDUM …