Mike Nelson: Adam Theirer’s Annual Cyberlaw and Info-Tech Policy Book Review

Always useful! Important Cyberlaw & Info-Tech Policy Books (2012 Edition) by Adam Thierer on December 17, 2012 · Add a Comment The number of major cyberlaw and information tech policy books being published annually continues to grow at an astonishing pace, so much so that I have lost the ability to read and review all …

Berto Jongman: Cyber-World Crisis of Legitimacy and Representation

The crisis of legitimacy and representation Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo ForumBlog.org, Dec 17th, 2012 The ongoing spat between the cyber community and the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) reveals a much larger crisis that the world is increasingly facing – the crisis of the legitimacy of representation. The UN and the Internet are arguably two of …

Josh Kilbourn: US Banks Under Minor Cyber-Attack – Probable Israeli False Flag — Meanwhile US Cyber-Security Largely Vaporware + Meta-RECAP

High Alert! Millions Of Bankers Cant Bank Online. BofA Blames Hackers From Middle East. Bank Cyber Attacks By Iran? Black Monday October 1, 2012? The financial and banking industries are on high alert tonight as a massive cyberattack continues, with potentially millions of customers of Bank of America, PNC and Wells Fargo finding themselves blocked …

Marcus Aurelius: Cyberwar as the Alternative to Micro/Macro Violence

Need To Know: Technolog: In Praise Of Cyberwar It’s better than the alternative. How malware could actually help keep the peace. By Michael Hirsh National Journal, June 9, 2012 EXTRACT: Above all, cybertactics could supply a new way out of an old conundrum — a kind of halfway house between the only two effective options …

DefDog: The infamous ‘take down the Internet in 30 minutes’ hearing from 1998 — Tens of Billions Later, NSA and OMB Have Not Done Their Jobs, US Cyber is Wide Open and Unsafe at Any Speed + Meta-RECAP

This is the famous hearing where Mudge told senators he could K-O the Internet in 30 minutes. It was a wide-ranging discussion, though Mudge’s claim is what the media ran with at the time. Watch and ask yourself, as Trustwave’s Tom Brennan does on his Facebook page this morning: “14 Years… have we gotten better?” …