Reuters reported on an interesting event from September 2019 today (16 October 2019): “The United States carried out a secret cyber operation against Iran in the wake of the Sept. 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities, which Washington and Riyadh blame on Tehran, two U.S. officials have told Reuters. Read more…
Writing during the tumultuous years of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes sought to identify the means through which humanity proceeds through an anarchical, violent natural state (the “nasty, brutish, and short” state of Man) to attain ordered, governed society. In formulating an idea of how such a society (or Read more…
Cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Etherium, etc.) is quite possibly the most damaging, least useful, most reprehensible technological development of the past 20 years – which is definitely saying something given the rise of “social media”. While cryptocurrency advocates continually espouse benefits such as transactional anonymity, increased access to financial services, and financial Read more…
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) released a powerful – and incredibly detailed – indictment of 12 named individuals working for the Russian GRU. While many will see this as similar to the indictment of several Chinese nationals for spying in 2014, the cases seem far different in my Read more…
Rather significant news broke out on 13 June with the EU taking initial steps toward a potential ban on Kaspersky software on EU-controlled networks. The specific language used, as translated by The Register: Calls on the EU to perform a comprehensive review of software, IT and communications equipment and infrastructure Read more…