I Knew Chelsea Manning in Basic Combat Training. Here’s the Story You Haven’t Heard
She is a hero to some, a traitor to others. Which is accurate? Let me tell you a story.
Jay B. Huwieler
Foreign Affairs Security Tech
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The Gap Between the Ground and the Sky: How Cluster Bomb Production in America Came to an End in 2016
In September 2016, Rhode Island-based defense industry manufacturer Textron Inc. announced in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it would discontinue production of its Sensor Fused Weapon system, effectively bringing to an end the last cluster munition manufactured in the United States. Textron cited both decreased international demand and requisite White House and Congressional…
Splitting Cybercom from the NSA, Part II: Transparency, Oversight, and Accountability
If the National Security Agency (NSA) and US Cyber Command (Cybercom) were to split into two functionally separate entities as NSA/Cybercom director Adm. Michael Rogers recently recommended, such a split could reap significant benefits. The first would be in greater operational efficiency in command and control of the U.S. military cyber force (see NSA/Cybercom split, [ ]
Splitting Cybercom from the NSA, Part I: Command and Control Issues
Earlier this month Adm. Michael Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and head of US Cyber Command (Cybercom), addressed the Senate Armed Service Committee’s third hearing on Encryption, where he reiterated his previous support for splitting the NSA and Cybercom into two functionally separate entities. Adm. Roger’s recommendation would leave the position of [ ]
Quantum Key Distribution: How the Media got it Wrong, and How a Military can Still Fight Back
August 2016 The People s Republic of China (PRC) launched the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) from its Jiuquan Satellite launch center in its remote north central desert lands. The launch was highly praised by scientists the world over for taking a significant step forward in the field of quantum computing, while in mainstream tech news the [ ]
Automated Vehicles, Part I: A Society Without Control
To the general public, the term “self-driving vehicle,” as popularized by Google in the early 2010’s, conjures images of people riding to work deeply engrossed in books or phone calls, oblivious to the outside world – no different from being chauffeured, picked up by a taxi, or riding on a public bus. However, because that level [ ]
Automated Vehicles: Preamble
Automated Vehicles. Driverless conveyance. Self-driving cars. Mobility and human progress have always been deeply intertwined, thus the rise of a transportation means independent of human involvement and intervention would then have vast, albeit currently un-anticipatable second and third order effects on virtually every facet of human life. From the earliest records of human kind, the [ ]
The Apple of your (FB)I: How a Federal Agency Doesn’t Get What it Wants Now, and Still Loses the Future
The very public spat between the FBI and Apple over the Cupertino tech colossus’ refusal to develop code which circumvents its own mobile security and accesses the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone has polarized the populous and once again brought to the public’s attention the endless modern tug-of-war between data confidentiality and government accessibility. However, when [ ]
Cyber Warfare: Combat Evolved, Or Combat At All?
Cyber "Warfare" - the term could apply to any Cyber act at any time by anyone, to any degree, regardless of the target. We can do better than that.
Quantum Cyber Warfare: The Defense Policy We Don’t Have, But Should
"Will Quantum Computing be to Cyber warfare what Nuclear weapons have been to kinetic warfare?"