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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
A former FBI agent who once faced up to 15 years in federal prison for allegedly tipping off a family friend that he was suspected of spying for the Chinese pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor offense Wednesday. By all public accounts the PRC CI squad is if f’ed up beyond repair, but a year…
Actually, it was going on well before the late Mr. Z got into the game but that’s OK; they’re trying to pay attention and it is better late than never.
I never met a secret squirel (sic) that didn’t think the sky was falling. Can’t you enjoy the success? After long, hard, and expensive struggle we’ve managed to kill a man responsible for the deaths of countless innocents. He was valuable to the insurgency, but like a Hydra there are plenty more where he came…
After the cake is gone and everyone has left the garbage behind, get your context here. In other words: don’t start packing your bags just yet.
GroupIntel Forum members are reminded to check out the site and help predict Iranian bomb developments. If you are not a Forum member please think about joining. Aliases are fine, the important thing is a more diverse set of minds. We don’t keep or track your personal info (that’s another agency’s job). 😉
It would appear that a “Bear” has been lurking in Connecticut: A senior Republican lawmaker on Wednesday called for removing the nation’s center for publicly available intelligence from the CIA, arguing that it not adequately supported and haunted by past scandals. House Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee Chairman Rob Simmons, R-Conn., said the Open Source Center…
Muslims blow up US military barracks Muslims attempt to blow up the World Trade Center Muslims bomb US Embassies Muslims blow a hole in a US Navy ship Muslims destroy the World Trade Center and blow a hole in the Pentagon Muslims worldwide riot over . . . cartoons Disaffected Muslims riot around France Muslims…
Wal-Mart’s ability to crunch numbers is a favorite of conspiracy theorists, and its data centers are the corporate counterpart to Area 51 at Groom Lake in the state of Nevada. According to one consumer activist, Katherine Albrecht, even the wildest conspiracy buff might be surprised at just how much Wal-Mart knows about its customers –…
It was a beautiful spring day at the Edina Art Fair. Some quite good and plenty of really bad “art” and the diet-blowing menu of brats, fried cheese curds, cherry lemonade, all ridiculously overpriced but oh-so delicious in the 84-degree sun. A perfect time to turn on my underused biological SIGINT capability and see what…
(Hat Tip to Bruce Schneier . . . naturally) I have been waiting for someone to tackle this topic from the European point of view: Had a European government, instead of the Bush administration, created the NSA’s call database, would that government be in violation of European privacy law? I think so, for the reasons…
Allan Friedman is a senior strategist at CISA (the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency) where he coordinates all of their cross-sector activities on the topic of SBOM: The Software Bill of Materials.
Joe Sullivan has been at the forefront of managing security risk in rapidly growing high tech companies over the past 20 years serving as the Chief Security Officer at Facebook from early start-up through the IPO, CSO of Uber and CloudFlare, and as a security leader at eBay/PayPal. Learn what motivates him and some of…
Joe Tranquillo is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Bucknell University and a provost at the school. He is also and author and speaker with a knack for helping make new and at times complex subjects understandable. In this OODAcast we discuss many aspects of the revolution in biological sciences with Joe including topics like:…
Charles Clancy has successfully led technology efforts in government, industry, academia and continues to lead and innovate in his current position as Senior Vice President and GM of MITRE Labs. He is MITRE’s Chief Futurist. His role in technology leadership and his tracking of tech across multiple domains made for an incredibly insightful OODAcast. We…
Mark McGrath has applied the teachings of John Boyd to a career that began in the Marine Corps, included leadership positions in financial services firms and consulting with businesses with a need to learn to thrive in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. He co-founded the consultancy AGLX and serves as its Chief Learning…
Serene is a hacker in the truest sense of the word. She’s applied a hacker mindset to learn coding, piano, and blend art and engineering in fascinating ways. You’ll find her collaborating on-stage with Grimes one night and coding censorship resistant technologies the next day. As a self-taught coder she was the first engineer hired…
Andy Bochman is the Senior Grid Strategist-Defender for Idaho National Laboratory’s National and Homeland Security directorate. In this role, Andy provides strategic guidance on topics at the intersection of grid security and climate resilience to INL leadership as well as senior U.S. and international government and industry leaders. Andy is a frequent speaker, writer, and trainer…
Spencer Ante is the author or “Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital”, which was on my Top 10 book list for 2022. In fact, I found Doriot’s story so compelling that a portrait of him hangs on the wall at the Hack Factory start-up studio in Reston, VA. Doriot is a…
Bob Zukis is a man on a mission to improve the ability of corporate America to succeed in a complex digital world, even when under constant cyber attack. Bob is the CEO and founder of the Digital Directors Network, the global pioneer in helping corporate directors advance their understanding of systemic risk. We consider Bob…
Adam Shostack is widely known in the cybersecurity world for his pioneering work on disclosing and discussing computer vulnerabilities (the CVE (common vulnerabilities and exposures) list). He also helped formalize and train leading approaches to threat modeling and wrote the foundational book on the subject (Threat Modeling: Designing for Security). In this OODAcast we seek…
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence
Informing your decisions with actionable intelligence