General Alexander's Confirmation And The Failure Of Cyberwar Transparency
Friday, May 7, 2010 saw an important event in the history of the Internet. On that day, the U.S. Senate confirmed by voice vote the promotion of NSA chief, Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, to the rank of...
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Offensive Cyberwar Operations as Communication
With the recent confirmation of Gen. Keith Alexander as the first commander of the newly-formed U.S. Cyber Command, the United States has committed itself to developing the capabilities necessary to...
View ArticleJust How Big Is The Cyber Threat To The Department Of Defense?
On June 3, we heard the first public presentation by the newly-confirmed commander of U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), General Keith Alexander. Unfortunately, his presentation only added to the ongoing...
View ArticleSow "Cyberwar" Rhetoric, Reap The NSA's "Big Brother"
Today we learned from the Wall Street Journal that the National Security Agency, with the help of defense contractor Raytheon, has been developing a system dubbed ‘Perfect Citizen’ and designed “to...
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WikiLeaks And The Ongoing Beat Of The Cyberwar Drums
Image via Wikipedia The website WikiLeaks.org and its founder Julian Assange have been receiving a great deal of attention lately. Wikileaks made waves in April of this year with the release of what...
View ArticleHow Non-Geek Government Can Make Cyber Policy
In the last three years, we have seen an increasing amount of public discussion about cybersecurity, part of which has involved an ongoing debate about what counts as expertise, credibility and...
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The Cyberwar Debate: Enough With The Straw Men And Scaremongers
The eruption of Icelandic volcanoe Eyjafjallajokull. This is not what cyberwar looks like. A recent OECD report [PDF], ”Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk,” has concluded, in part, that governments...
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Is America Really Building An Internet “Kill Switch”
The Egyptian government’s recent cutting of all Internet traffic in and out of the country in response to ongoing protests calling for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak has garnered a great...
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