A Most Deadly Game

TechTV's Cybercrime show interviewed me regarding Jim Bell's "Assassanitation Politics" essay. This was a tough interview as elements of the Bell case walk a fine line between civil liberties and civil security.


Chaos: The Coming Technology War

An interesting article from Newfactor that discusses our original DIRT concept from 1996.


Server Move Complete

The devost.net domain has been officially moved to the new server and new site format. Unfortunately, my previous hosting provider had serious billing issues and I won't be using them any more.


National Security in the Information Age

This is the original copy of my 1995 thesis on information warfare. While I had written earlier essays on the topic, the thesis really represented my thinking and research during the 1993-1995 timeframe.


Kartoo Search Engine

I stole this from Eric's site. It is an interesting implementation of a search engine with graphical results displayed in a spider's web format with the most significant hit showing up at the largest node. I especially like results that are…


Sector5 Global Summit

I will serve as one of five masterminds during this global summit exploring cyberterrorism and critical infrastructure protection on August 21-23, 2002Conference Info


Council of Security and Strategic Technology Organizations

I will be speaking at this conference regarding cyberterrorism and IT security threats on October 14-17, 2002. Conference Info


Census Annual Security Day

I will provide a plenary on cyberterrorism at the Census Bureau annual security day conference on June 18, 2002. Conference Info


Interview on Science Friday

I was on Science Friday on December 7, 2001 talking about cybersecurity issues. The entire staff for this show, from producer to host, were great to deal with. The interview session was also a lot of fun. Callers asked Kevin and I some really…


Hackers Vandalize 26 Government Sites

An interesting article from when this type of defacement activity made the news almost every week. They became so commonplace, even attrition.org couldn't stand to keep up with the activity.