Ping: The Big Thought Is Missing in National Security
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Why, six years after 9/11, is there no mega-research project to address the plausible security threats to the United States in the 21st century?
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Data pragmatism Analysis The latest problem to be thrown at us, on top of war, global warming, disease etc, is that we are "sleepwalking into a surveillance society".â¦
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Isn't it logical and more efficient to allow people carrying U.S. government security clearances to bypass airport screening? You might think so, but you'd be wrong. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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A Bush administration initiative to secure the nation's ports is bogged down in industry opposition, technology flaws and evidence that it fails to safeguard workers' privacy, according to industry and government analysts.
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WASHINGTON, DC â-he new director of Homeland Security will have to find the answer to a critical question: âWhatâs the best way to protect America?
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The problem with nationalism is that it will align itself with and act in the common good of humanity only when its own interests are also served. And of course, if its interests are served by stability, which might sometimes be served by propping up corrupt regimes, such as in Burma and its supply of natural gas to India and China, no action will come at all. Agitation then to get countries to do something is pointless. National governments exist to serve that country's citizens, not humanity. That fundamental structural defect means that nations are unreliable agents of the common good. They will never act for the common good of humanity on principle alone.  However, with the rise of the Internet, we have a wonderful new tool at our disposal for the advancement of justice. A means for all of humanity to coordinate and act on the name of the human good on its own, bypassing the morally compromised and ineffectual national governments.
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After two wars, thousands of deaths and many billions of dollars, the United States is still vulnerable to terrorists. That painful reality has ignited a political frenzy over who's to blame and who's best qualified to protect Americans.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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The precious balance between individual freedoms and national security has never been defined in absolutes. In times of war, when our security is threatened, people are asked to make concessions with their freedoms.
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Have Asia's central banks lulled Americans into a false sense of security?
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Americans don&#39;t believe the government is doing enough with technology to improve homeland security, according to a national survey conducted jointly by CNET News.
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The Washington Post Magazine peddles the possibility that thousands get government messages beamed into their brains. Really? In 27B Stroke 6.
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he mystery is not that newspapers, television and news agencies want to look into George W. Bush&#39;s National Guard record--but rather why they have not done much more about it earlier.
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The ability of terrorists and other dark elements to engage in covert communications online remains a daunting security problem, and one that may prove impossible to solve.
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U.S. government isn't doing enough with technology to improve homeland security, a CNET News.com-Harris Interactive poll finds.
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On Government Technology Magazine: Homeland Security
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Jon Oltsik says the explosion in broadband use forces a rethinking of Internet security. But a lethargic vendor response is not a promising harbinger.