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Reimagining Democracy

Schneier on Security

Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy. Some questions to think about: Representative democracies were built under the assumption that travel and communications were difficult. Limit financial and military power? I hope this is only the first of an ongoing series of similar workshops.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

FOX: Roberts: You basically have to understand how computer networks work, how avionics systems work, and then be able to translate communicate between those systems We've primarily focused on physically being in the airplane and hooking up to inflight entertainment. He explained how he’d been studying the problem for years on Fox News.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: How To Become A 1337 Hacker

ForAllSecure

Some, like Adam Van Prooyan, just kind of wandered into that path, in part because he was interested in computers, and also because the West Point Military Academy just happened to have a CTF team that competes in the annual Cyberstakes competition. Vamosi: So, not everyone is in a military academy. Cyber 600 and that was.

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Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

Krebs on Security

The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. We don’t often hear about intentional efforts to subvert the security of the technology supply chain simply because these incidents tend to get quickly classified by the military when they are discovered.

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Spotlight: Finding Footage for National History Day Projects

Unwritten Record

With that in mind, Heidi Holmstrom and I brainstormed a list of films that relate to this year’s theme, Communication in History: The Key to Understanding. These films are organized loosely, but are generally chronological and arranged by the type of communication they represent. This is by no means an exhaustive list.