Rick Holland pointed out today that Dave Aitel last April wrote an article “US Steel demonstrates why we need Cyber Letters of Marque” …while economic competitiveness is at some level a strategic need, the particular defense of a US Company is not something the NSA can and should prioritize. The answer to this problem is … Continue reading How We Could Use Cyber Letters of Marque
Sadly this topic has remained a simmering controversy for far too long, mostly because of lack of effort on all our part. It isn’t hard to get it right, yet for some reason Poland isn’t getting credit due. The BBC in 2014 described a hugely important and historic event as simply a “quiet gathering”. The … Continue reading Polish Mathematicians Broke Nazi Enigma
Have you heard the story about a drone that crashed into the White House yard? Wired has done a follow-up story, drawing from a conference to discuss drone risks. The conference was open to civilians, but explicitly closed to the press. One attendee described it as an eye-opener. Laughably Wired seems to quote just one … Continue reading A Remote Threat: The White House Drone Incident
Update August 2020: Latest research can be found in a new blog post called Cultural Spectrum of Trust. My mother and I from 2006 to 2010 presented a linguistic analysis of the Advanced Fee Fraud (419 Scam). One of the key findings we revealed (also explained in other blog posts and our 2006 paper) is … Continue reading Linguistics as a Tool for Cyber Attack Attribution