This Gun For Hire
The suburbs of Washington, from Alexandria in the south to Dulles Airport in the west, make up the defense industry's fertile crescent. Within a short drive of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the rest of the national security state, one immaculate office…
Electronic attack slows Internet
Traffic on the many parts of the Internet slowed dramatically for hours early Saturday, the apparent effects of a fast-spreading, virus-like infection that overwhelmed the world's digital pipelines and interfered with Web browsing and delivery of…
Total Misrepresentation (of Total Information Awareness)
"The chance that the U.S. government will become a police state because it is better able to analyze private transactions for signs of terrorism is virtually nil; the chance would be greater, however, if the country were to experience a series of…
Terrorism: Threats, Tactics, Training and Technology
The latest TRC Training session will take place in Washington, DC. on January 8-10, 2003. "This class led by nationally recognized terrorism experts including Brian Michael Jenkins, Walter Purdy, Matthew Devost, Tom Walsh, Neal Pollard, Bryan…
Georgetown COSC511
I've recently received an appointment as Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University to teach COSC511 "Information Warfare and Security". This class was previously taught by Dorothy Denning and I am honored to take it over. If you are a student…
Clarke, a counterterrorism official in the Clinton administration, acknowledged that terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda havent turned the Internet into a weapon. But he cautioned against complacency. For years, he said, counterterrorism…
The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.
This story from Business 2.0 is interesting. When thinking innovation and technology, the drug cartels probably rank just behind Amazon.com. Colombian cartels have spent billions of dollars to build one of the world's most sophisticated IT…