Paperless Meetings
Paper for my notebook. (Photo credit: rmkoske) I hate paper. I don’t like walking to the mailbox to pick up mail because it’s mostly junk mail. I hate my filing system, which consists of paper copies...
View ArticleThe Emperor Is NAKED
Reblogged from Krypt3ia: gedh gedh gedh gedh gedh gedh OMG THE DAM DATA! Last week a report came out on Wired about how the ACE (Army Corps of Engineers) database was hacked by China and "sensitive"...
View ArticleQuestions Someone Should Ask DOD About Its Report on Chinese Cyber-Operations
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/05/questions-someone-should-ask-dod-about-its-report-on-chinese-cyber-operations/. Questions Someone Should Ask DOD About Its Report on Chinese Cyber-Operations By Jack...
View ArticleOn IO Blogs
Side view of a U.S. Air Force O-2 of the 9th Special Operations Squadron dropping Chieu Hoi leaflets over the Republic of Vietnam. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I received a comment today to an ancient...
View ArticleTwo More Memorable IO Blogs
English: Socks the Cat (1989-2009), also known as “First Cat”, presiding over a White House press conference during Clinton presidency.(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Yesterday I published a blog piece “On...
View ArticlePresiding Governor Lynton Steps Down from the BBG Board
From a BBG Press Release: May 23, 2013 Washington, DC – Broadcasting Board of Governors leader Michael Lynton has informed the White House that he is leaving the BBG effective today. “It has been an...
View ArticleLetter to the Secretary of State about Public Diplomacy
The Honorable John F. Kerry Seal of the United States Department of State. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Secretary of State Washington DC 20520 Dear Mr. Secretary: We urge that a career foreign...
View ArticleInformation as an Element of National Power
Map composed by a United States Army War College student, as part of his Master’s thesis, in the public domain as a work of a member of the US Government. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m in the middle of...
View ArticleLi Wu Feng of the Central Foreign Affairs Office, State Council Information...
I just came across this press release from Xinhua. Li Wu Feng (also spelled Li WuFeng) just came from being the chief official for the Chinese Internet (Director General of the State Council...
View ArticleReminder about the InfowarCon 2014 Survey
A note from Winn Schwartau: I’ve been asked by many different groups to bring back INFOWARCON, the cyberwar conference I ran starting in 1994. GFirst is sadly gone. Too many Training Congresses are all...
View ArticleTrans Regional Web Initiative Survives Congressional Assault
Tom Vanden Brook, a USA Today reporter, wrote here that a bill by Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif failed by 238-135, after a damning and damaging GAO report. Official portrait of US Rep Jeff Denham (Photo...
View ArticleThe Future of Cyberwar – Better or Worse?
Yesterday I gave a lecture at the Washington DC campus of Bahçeşehir University, about one block from the White House. A number of undergraduate students and one PhD candidate, studying Strategic...
View ArticleNORTHCOM’s TRWI Site
The other day I published a piece on the Trans-Regional Web Initiative here, a concerted effort by US IO offices to reach out and establish credible, long-term, sources for information providing fair...
View ArticleThe US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it • Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier • theguardian.com, Thursday 5 September 2013 15.04 EDT...
View ArticleBody Implants & Prosthetics
More in our ongoing future technology series. Afghanistan and Iraq have brought about a huge increase in the advancement of prosthetics and body implants. This was actually brought about by the...
View Article1 (800) 318-2596
I continue to have difficulty following this administration’s focus. Yes, the past two weeks in Washington DC have been quite different. Two weeks ago we had a deranged individual kill 12 people at...
View ArticleSocial Media both Good and Bad
I was recently alarmed when people began piling on and attempted to eviscerate Melissa Bachman for posting pictures of her with wild animals she and clients have killed. A Facebook page, attacking...
View ArticleA Unique Way to Inform
This past weekend I gave a presentation about Information Operations to a group of Strategic Planners. I really feel I shortchanged the audience, I put together the briefing in one evening. I...
View Article.D
I have a good friend, Katherine, who I do not think of as disabled, but she is blind in one eye. To me she is highly intelligent, personable and engaging. She is a graduate student at the Institute of...
View ArticleLiterally Lost in Translation
I love exchanging messages with my friends in foreign lands, however there are going to be occasional problems in translation. Today I sent a response to a friend in Russia who was discussing a US...
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