William Arkin points out an interesting set of coincidences: The National Security Agency is in the process of building a new warning hub and data warehouse in the Denver area, realigning much of …
The Army’s Sticky Fingers
Reuters opens the back door (draft) - (thanks E.D.): The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called ``stop-loss,'' but …
DOJ Explains
DOJ PAO explains what all the fuss is about. …
Reading Saddam’s Email
My Weekly Standard article is up. Thanks Steve, R, C, and of course WK. Pre-emptive note to the CF community: Yes, if this were going to the IJDE it would read a lot differently. Consider who the …
The Fight Comes (Closer to) Home
I spent a brief but memorable time in West Texas many years ago. Unlike a lot of my cohorts I never made a weekend trip south of the border; in part because I’m not all that interested in donkey …
What Can We Expect to Find?
In case I needed to paint a bolder and more colorful picture of what one can find on captured media . . . from crypto/privacy guru Bruce Schneier in Wired: Some years ago, I left my laptop …
From the Office of Software Security
Computerworld’s EiC weighs in on a COMPUSEC issue: Computerworld's Jaikumar Vijayan reported that the DHS is spending $1.24 million on a project designed to improve the security of open-source …
Looking on the Bright Side
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, yesterday said that four British diplomats accused of espionage in Moscow should not be expelled, as their replacements might be cleverer than they were and …
Doing a Mental
Part two of the CNSN story on how NSA deals with percieved malcontents here. Sad. …
The Best Defense
It may have been the delirium of being woken up several times in the night by a crying newborn, or it might have been just normal run-of-the-mill delirium, but if I’m not mistaken Matt Lauer started …