> > If the USG can't even keep thumb drives off of SIPR, isn't the > whole game doomed to failure? (What genius thought it would be > a good idea to put USB ports on SIPR-connected boxes, anyway?) >
USG is, like all enterprises, struggling with "consumerization" such as whether cloud services (like Gmail) have so great a cost efficiency as to be irresistible or choosing whether individual USG employees should be forbidden or required to own carry cell phones (trackability). There is current budget-driven consideration as to whether to collapse JWICS and SIPRnet into one fabric. As the Internet-of-things rolls forward, the effort required to maintain even a constant level of risk will be all but entirely infeasible, and university-level social science research appears poised to make it possible to imagine a government herded by continuous plebiscite (such as by automatic, language-independent categorization of all Tweets in real time), thus ending long-term thinking altogether. A republic, if you can keep it. --dan _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
