Crypto star and security maven Schneier trots out an academic ally to beat the “data mining is bad” horse: Floyd Rudmin, a professor at a Norwegian university, applies the mathematics of conditional …
Hey, look! A stovepipe!
Some US intelligence experts say the government should rethink how it gathers information in the war on terror. Four intelligence community veterans led by former C-I-A deputy director Richard Kerr …
Real Sharing on the Horizon?
A Senate intelligence panel is pushing the National Security Agency to open its databases of raw signals intelligence to a wider audience within the intelligence community. […] The Senate Select …
Hope for Oversight?
In another story that may not make the White House happy, The New York Times on Sunday reported that it had obtained what it calls "a sharply worded letter" by a top Republican sent to President Bush …
Violence Opens Old Wounds From Lebanon’s Past
The Israeli assault on targets in Lebanon has sparked two strange and contradictory dynamics among the Lebanese population. The first is the impulse for the national community to galvanize against …
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Tasting Our Own Ice Cream (Updates)
A friend from the biz used to say that after a few days out of the office he would delete any emails or other messages older than 72 hours old; odds are that whatever was being discussed prior to that …
“Top” must mean something different there
The FBI's National Security Branch, which leads the war on terrorism, is on its sixth director in four years. [former chief Gary] Bald lasted just eight months. Chris Swicker, the head of the bureau's …
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Definately Not Serious
A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI's classified computer system and gain the passwords of 38,000 employees, including that of FBI …
Bin Laden wants al-Zarqawi body released
: Last week for the first time, al-Sahab Institute for Media Productions issued recordings of speeches by Osama bin Laden on consecutive days, June 30 and July 1. On June 30, Bin Laden eulogized the …
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Shi’ite, Sunni fighters clash north of Baghdad
Recent attacks in Iraq bearing hallmarks of sectarian ethnic-religious targeting; a recent communiqu? by Osama bin Laden calling on Iraq's Sunnis to retaliate against the Shia (see this WAR Report); …
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