Over on a website called Genius I’ve made a few replies to some other peoples’ comments on an old story: “Mysterious ’08 Turkey Pipeline Blast Opened New Cyberwar” This Genius site offers the sort of experience where you have to believe a ton of pop-up scripts and cartoonish-bubbles are some kind of improvement over plain … Continue reading Cyberwar revisionism: 2008 BTC pipeline explosion
In private circles I was agitating for a while on the humanitarian crisis in North Korea. Although I have collected a bit of data and insights over the years it just hasn’t seemed like the sort of thing people were interested in or asking about. Not exactly good conversation material. Then earlier this year I … Continue reading The DPRK Humanitarian Crisis
This (draft) post basically comes after reading one called “The Feds Got the Sony Hack Right, But the Way They’re Framing It Is Dangerous” by Robert Lee. Lee stated: At its core, the debate comes down to this: Should we trust the government and its evidence or not? But I believe there is another view … Continue reading Gov Fumbles Over-Inflated Sony Hack Attribution Ball
More and more often I see those experienced in technology very awkwardly address issues of political science. A malware reverser will speculate on terrorist motives. An expert with network traffic analysis will make guesses about organized crime operations. When a journalist asks an expert in information security to explain the human science of an attack, … Continue reading A Political Science TL;DR for InfoSec