The United States has been waging digital warfare for over a quarter century now. But in the future, it must use its cyberpower more cautiously. If a cyberwar spun out of control, the United States would have the most to lose. Source: America’s Cyberwar Hypocrisy | Foreign Affairs Separately, this is one of the best…
For generations of Americans, driving and the open road promised a kind of freedom: the ability to light out for the territory, even if the territory was only the mall one town over. Autonomous vehicles also come with the promise of freedom, the freedom of getting places without having to pay attention to the open…
I Was a Digital Best Seller! – NYTimes.com. An interesting anecdote about one author’s experience writing an ebook.
I picked up a copy of Stealing Your Life, by Frank Abagnale, after hearing Frank speak at an IAPP conference in 2009. (He was a great speaker.) Several years later, I finally have gotten around to reading it. The book is a fast read and contains dozens of vignettes about identity theft illustrating every possible…
Lot’s of good reading here! These are all going on my wish list! A nicely written piece that gets to the complexities of the motives and actions of hackers Among other things, the Stratfor e-mails [obtained by Anonymous] revealed statements by Stratfor employees that the government was spying on US citizens and corporations were spying on…
A lot of people, including the US government, believe that social media was a very large catalyst for the “Arab Spring”. Others strongly question the role of of social media as a catalyst. Instead, at best, it raises the visibility of these events in the West. Another take on it here. Additional Links: NYT blog…
The Cuckoo’s Egg makes for fun and educational reading. I’m about halfway through. I manage about 15 minutes at night somewhere between 1 and 2 a.m. An astronomer at Berkley is laid off and then “recycled” into the computer department in the late 1980’s. A 75 cent computer error results in his discovering what we…
Interview with James Gleick about his new book, "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood”. It’s on my list of books to read. I found interesting that when the printing press was created, people worried about the flood of information from having so many books. No one person could read them all, so…
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