I know it's not fashionable in all circles to say this, but I think there are some things the government should take ownership of: one of them is cyberdefense. I'm no more comfortable leaving that to the private sector than leaving military defenses to private armies.
Agreed - defensive computational technology is important. We cannot expect individual users to be able to comprehend the complexities that natio-states can thwart upon our systems. I applaud the efforts of Darpa to try to come up with new and innovative ideas. It all sounds so non-governmental, but then again the government is in fact where the internet came from in the first place.
What, from a strictly political & strategic standpoint, must be understood is that Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan. What they have done despite all the constraints upon them is quite amazing.
US military sources are saying that Iran strengthened its cyberwar capabilities of Stuxnet. But of course, we need to take note of what the source for that it.
The new front in the War has arrived. The US has been waging the war since 2005 primarily against Iran (despite denials). Interesting that DARPA has been given the mission--there is no choice, is there? The question is whether again we would be paranoid enough to start being disengaged?
DARPA has hosted a bunch of really interesting challenges -- ranging from autonomous cars to real-time crowdsourced tracking.. so cloud security seems like an important enough topic that it shouldn't be left out.
Given the advances in nation-sponsored malware, creating more defensive computer technology seems only logical -- but it might not be possible AND useful at the same time. A computer not connected to the internet at all is pretty secure, but what can you do with that computer?
DARPA certainly has a role to play here, although it will be good to see some actual concrete results from this, as well as from the DARPA project on trusted identities.
I'm hearing versions of this distributed security idea in all kinds of contexts. There must, though, be the fear of letting the bad guys in -- disguised as "neighborhood watch."
I'm glad DARPA is taking such a proactive role in cloud security, something we definitely need. Although I don't usually advocate for more government, in this area I think our government has played far too passive a role. We've got some great private, third-party developers doing terrific work in this space, but because of the national security implications and the threat to commerce and so forth, it's vital that government gets more involved in ensuring cloud security. DARPA would seem a natural fit.
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Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
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