Collaborate Disseminate
The NSA has another contractor who stole classified documents. It’s a weird story: "But more than a month later, the authorities cannot say with certainty whether Mr. Martin leaked the information, passed them on to a third party or whether he simply downloaded them." So maybe a potential leaker. Or a spy. Or just a document collector. My guess is… Continue reading NSA Contractor Arrested for Stealing Classified Information
At Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Atlanta today Microsoft announced several new tools and services that are based on their cloud intelligence platform.
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The Intercept has published a 120-page catalog of spy gear from the British defense company Cobham. This is equipment available to police forces. The catalog was leaked by someone inside the Florida Department of Law Enforcement…. Continue reading Spy Equipment from Cobham
Amy Zegert has some good questions, comparing the Orlando Pulse massacre to the Fort Hood massacre from 2009…. Continue reading Issues Regarding Lone-Wolf Terrorism Prevention
Internal GCHQ documents obtained by a campaign group detail UK Intelligence Agency’s use of “bulk personal datasets.” Continue reading Documents Reveal Inner-Workings of UK’s Spying Databases
GCHQ detected a potential pre-publication leak of a Harry Potter book, and alerted the publisher. Is this what British national intelligence is supposed to be doing?… Continue reading GCHQ Gets Involved in Mundane Surveillance Matters
Continue reading The Future of Human-to-Technology Interaction Is Here
A common theme among information security commenters and keynotes is that infosec can and either will or should evolve to be more like structural engineering, product safety, and public health, as they have all but eliminating the risk of dying in a commercial aircraft accident or dying from polio. Why don’t we follow the same process to stop getting hacked? It would be nice if attackers were just a disease, pest, or accident that we could vaccinate, spray, or certify away. But we have intelligent, adaptive, goal-driven, human adversaries. So let’s learn from the fields that have been dealing with them for centuries. Continue reading Human Adversaries – Why Information Security Is Unlike Engineering