I guess it’s just part of the “political goon mindset” to want to be photographed standing in front of important-looking things. Donald Trump and his nachos, Kim Jong Un and his nuclear weapons explosive-lens carving CNC machine, and Rouhani by his breeder reactor control panel.
Just a reminder: messing with another country’s civilian power grid is a crime against humanity.
Let me postulate that knowledge actually is power. That would mean that intellectual property is a strategic asset: the asymmetry between its pile of intellectual property and other nations’ piles can be converted to potential military force and dominance.
Corporatism favors the rights of corporations ahead of those of their customers; right now we’re in the middle of a complex shouting-match regarding what companies like Facebook can decide to provide to marketing partners; are we trusting them too much with our data? Are they going to handle it responsibly? What makes people imagine that companies are not going to immediately have a strategy meeting and ask, “what is the worst thing we can do with our customer data? Because: let’s do that!”
In case you didn’t know, or had mistakenly believed some vendors’ claims that things are getting better: computer security is still approximately as bad as it was when I got into the field in 1989.
The RSA Conference is the biggest computer security trade-show held annually in San Francisco.
When something goes wrong, the surrounding supporting infrastructure must suddenly accept a new load.
The scenarios I read about cyberwar have always struck me as crude and more than a little bit pointless.
In a recent posting I hypothesized that the voting machines in Georgia have been allowed to remain deliberately bad. [stderr]
In computer security, we talk about “I&A” – Identification (or Authentication) and Authorization. It’s one of the fundamental problems that makes everything work or not work, accordingly.