While there’s been renewed interest in focusing the U.S. military on countering high-end 21st Century threats such as the advanced area denial weapons being developed by China, don’t expect all of the relatively low-tech yet incredibly useful weapons of the last few wars to go away as soon as fighting dies down in Afghanistan. Northrop […]
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Here’s an explicit example of the Egyptian government using social networking tech to help organize the violent, pro-government counter demonstrations that broke out in Cairo this week; it’s a sample of one of the mass-text messages the Mubarak government apparently ordered U.K.-based cellphone carrier Vodafone and a local cell provider to send to Egyptian citizens. […]
Here’s a very interesting piece that follows on our post yesterday about the cyber fight in Egypt. We focused on the angle of U.S. companies moving to circumvent government control of Internet access and what this could mean around the world. Now, CNN is asking; could the U.S. shut down the Internet? The short answer, […]
Whatever you think of WikiLeaks and this week’s media firestorm about the site, this is pretty cool. The organization is now storing its data in the 007/Dr. Evil style bunker inside a Swedish mountain. From MIT’s Technology Review: If Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is trying to turn himself into a Bond villain, he’s succeeded: the ongoing […]
By Kevin Coleman – DefenseTech Cyber Warfare Correspondent Last week Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that the future holds a major threat from cyber technologies that will require civil and military coordination to shield American networks from attack. He went on to add, “that’s just the reality that we all face.” Enough with the warnings, it is […]
