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Boston Bombing Investigation: Intel Failure? No. Bad Expectation-Setting? Oh,...
Bombing victim Jeff Bauman delivering fellow victim Sydney Corcoran her 18th birthday present This is a long post. As either Blaise Pascal, Mark Twain, Voltaire or my Uncle Sid said, I didn’t have time...
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How We Learn What We Know, to Chart What We Know
I spent an enjoyable 20 minutes today speaking with Hilary Sargent, an OSINT rock-star who had to ask me what OSINT was. That’s not to say that she didn’t know – I’m sure she did. But when I told her...
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Weapons-Grade Stupid
The Horror! The Horror! Oh, The Humanity! Just a collection of stories from the last month or so related to zero-tolerance and weaponry in schools. We have enough problems with real guns to allow this...
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Strikeback! Commission on IP Theft Report Gets All Ronin On China
A bipartisan group that studies the effects and impacts of IP theft in the US, The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, has released a report outlining their findings on the scope...
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To Whom the 4th Amendment Doesn’t Apply
Guest blogger Chris Swan contributed this from the UK. Chris is Chief Technology Officer of CohesiveFT, where he focuses on product development and product delivery. After a decade as a Combat Systems...
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Big Ears, Little Ears: One article, three layers of blown secrecy, and how...
Today’s guest post is from Eric Olson, author of the Digital Water blog and a previous contributor to PLI. Well, I haven’t had much time to write here for quite a while, but the Edward Snowden affair –...
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Banning Feds From DefCon Is Self Defeating. Here’s Why.
If you’re not familiar with DefCon, the hacker confab that has been meeting in Vegas for more than 20 years, you’re not paying attention to hacking. DefCon (and the accompanying conferences like...
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Civic Coding and You – Apply for the Code for America Fellowship
Dave and I have sat in a room – this was recently – watching a college-educated woman at a desk with two computers, and two keyboards. She was typing information from one into the other because the two...
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Opportunity is Knocking. Answer the Door.
If you’ve ever thought that you should open the door when opportunity comes knocking? Listen up: it’s pounding on your door. It’s not often that we in the public safety community are approached with an...
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A New Hope…
Dave Aitel has graciously allowed us to run his commentaries before – see Hackers May Help Choose The Next US President and Aitel On Cyberwar. Dave is the founder and Chief...
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