We're judging our military's technical readiness by keeping up with... Wikipedia? Really?
Better get those enlisted folks writing up 300 pages on Pokemon then. On Feb 18, 2008 2:02 PM, Paul Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Via Danger Room. > > [snip] > > They might not build $150-million F-22 stealth fighters, but in other ways > insurgents and terrorists are amazingly tech savvy. For one, they're hip > to > using grungy, bare-bones websites to spread tactics and ideology across > the > planet on the cheap, transforming once-isolated local and regional > conflicts into genuine threats to global stability. Author John Robb calls > this "open-source warfare," and believes it's the most important force > shaping the 21st century. > > If so, we're screwed. Seven years after the launch of Wikipedia -- the > user-edited online encyclopedia that brought the "open source" concept to > the masses -- the U.S. Army is still playing catch-up. The Army's idea of > harnessing the 'net is to launch isolated websites, put generals in charge > and lock everything behind passwords, while banning popular open-source > civilian websites. Colonel James Galvin, head of the Army's "Battle > Command > Knowledge System," openly admits that when it comes to the collaborative > internet, the bad guys have a "niche advantage." > > [snip] > > More: > http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/army-wikis-too.html > > Interesting article. > > - - ferg > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) > > wj8DBQFHueQ2q1pz9mNUZTMRAtguAJ44Ul529KYdCCEsEovobQQIjtexYgCffQHZ > gOJT9CT6ZwuNOZOQmUQOTqc= > =wgSu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawg(at)netzero.net > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. >
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