InfoBore 2
I’m deep in dissertation land at the moment, which explains the dearth of recent posts. Once I’ve broken the back of the thing I’ll resume regular posting but in the meantime I’m resorting to the default blog post, that of the aggregator. Here are a few things that have caught my attention in the last week.
It’s not possible to have missed Obama’s speech on cybersecurity last Friday [pdf]. Given that I was probably one of the first people in the UK to have actually digested it, it’s inexcusable not to have responded to it in full at the time. Mind you, it got precious little attention in the mainstream UK media. It seems a bit late to comment now but plenty of other people have given their reactions:
Cyber Security: The Starting Gun Has Sounded – Steven Bucci, Security Debrief
Obama Steps Into the Cyber War – Kevin Coleman, Defense Tech
Obama’s Cybersecurity Speech: Why Bother? – Bobby Ghosh, Time
Obama’s Cybersecurity Speech – Bruce Schneier
Obama’s Cyber Security Review – Ian Brown, Blogzilla
White House Completes Cyberspace Policy Review – Google Public Policy Blog
Obama Fights Cyber Threats with New White House Post – Dan Goodin, The Register
New Laws for a New Cybercommand? – Dan Hollis, Opinio Juris
Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Cyberspace Wars – David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker, New York Times
National Cyber Security: Round Three – Michael Tanji, Threats Watch
Bruce Sterling thinks that even the use of the term ‘cyberspace’ is somewhat outmoded…
As I’ve been predicting in somewhat uncontroversial fashion for some time, The Register reports that since Obama’s review the UK is now considering its own cybersecurity review, to be released in tandem with the revised National Security Strategy sometime this summer.
In other British news, we are officially the West’s most repressive regime, according to a new survey by internet security consultancy, Cryptohippie…
Twitter – not my cup of tea (yet) but how do you visualise it as fish? Meanwhile, Drew Conway describes the Five Demons of Twitter.
Soft Media, Hard Work. And risky for government. It might be worth it though as traditional media are broken anyway.
Games will be photo real within 10-15 years.
In lighter news, a feral child has been found in Siberia.
Lastly, but possibly most interestingly, Mark Cuban on power laws and new media – so, why do you blog?
