Fire up the warp drive. Wesley Clark is convinced people will one day be able to travel faster than light — a feat Einstein and others have deemed impossible. “During a whirlwind campaign swing Saturday through New Hampshire, Clark, the newest Democratic presidential candidate… dropped something of a bombshell,” reports Brian McWilliams for Wired News. […]
September 2003
“Thousands of U.S. troops invaded Iraq in March without the new body armor that can stop rifle bullets, and thousands more still lack the lifesaving protection,” according to the Daily News. “I can’t answer for the record why we started this war with protective vests that were in short supply,” Army Gen. John Abizaid, chief […]
“The CIA is set to spend several million dollars to develop a video game aimed at helping its analysts think like terrorists,” reports the Washington Times. “The agency’s Counter Terrorist Center, or CTC, is working with the Los Angeles-based Institute for Creative Technologies on a project designed to help its analysts, ‘think outside the box,’” […]
Ten days ago, the FBI called Defense Tech, looking for information about Adrian Lamo, the so-called “Homeless Hacker.” Get ready to turn over your notes about Lamo, an agent warned. Now, SecurityFocus.com’s Mark Rasch is shedding new light on the FBI’s move: The demand that journalists preserve their notes is being made under laws that […]
In recent years, the priests of the Pentagon have developed a new orthodoxy: network-centric warfare. That’s the notion that every infantryman, every pilot, every drone and every general will share everything they see and hear over an Internet for combat. It’s become the unquestionable centerpiece of the U.S. military’s vision for its future. On the […]
