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Pentagon May Issue Pocket Lie Detectors to Afghan Soldiers

2008-04-14 12:57:47 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Pentagon knows it: The Pentagon, in a PowerPoint presentation released to msnbc.com through a Freedom of Information Act request, says the PCASS is 82 to 90 percent accurate. Those are the only accuracy numbers that were sent up the chain of command at the Pentagon before the device was approved But Pentagon studies obtained by msnbc.com show...
 
Tags: pentagon, measure accuracy, accuracy, pcass accuracy, pentagon studies, lie detectors, yellow screens, tests drops, pcass
 
 
 
 
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The Pentagon's World of Warcraft Movie-Plot Threat

2008-09-18 13:29:12 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Pentagon researcher is worried that terrorists might plot using World of Warcraft: In a presentation late last week at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Conference in Washington, Dr. Dwight Toavs, a professor at the Pentagon-funded National Defense University, gave a bit of a primer on virtual worlds to an audience largely...
 
Tags: world, warcraft, plot, play world, warcraft players discuss, movie-plot threat, online world, meatspace plot, dragon fire
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Slices and Dices Darpa Budget

2008-07-23 01:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon's storied research and development arm turned 50 years old this year. Its birthday present from the Pentagon brass: another $100 million in budget cuts
 
Tags: pentagon, pentagon brass, budget cuts, development arm, million, research, birthday
 
 
 
 
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Goliath Beats Davids for Pentagon Power Prize

2008-10-06 19:25:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon set up a million-dollar prize to get entrepreneurs and tinkerers to come up with radically new ways to supply power to the all those gadgets a soldier has to lug around. But the winner, the Pentagon declared today, is as traditional as it comes: DuPont, the chemical giant -- and military supplier, since 1802
 
Tags: pentagon, pentagon set, supply power, chemical giant, military supplier, soldier, gadgets, winner, lug
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon to Shoot Down Rogue Satellite

2008-02-14 19:15:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Despite cautionary notes from space security veterans, the Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March
 
Tags: space security veterans, pentagon, spy satellite, cautionary notes, earth, march, hit
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Plots Sim Iraq for Propaganda Tests

2008-02-08 18:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon is trying to figure out how to beat jihadists in the propaganda war. So they're looking to build virtual versions of Middle Eastern countries, to see how "media and rumor propagation" works over there. Good luck
 
Tags: middle eastern countries, pentagon, rumor propagation, virtual versions, propaganda war, jihadists, figure, luck, media
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon attack last June stole an "amazing amount" of data

2008-03-07 20:50:05 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The cyberattack that penetrated the Pentagon in June, 2007 did more damage than immediately reported. According to one Department of Defense official, the organization lost huge amounts of data through an already-known Windows exploit
 
Tags: already-known windows exploit, pentagon, data, defense official, june, department, damage, immediately, cyberattack
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon: $520 Million for Space Weapons Research

2008-03-13 19:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Center for Defense Information releases its survey of the Pentagon's 2009 budget, highlighting research that could lead to arms in space
 
Tags: defense information releases, pentagon, research, space, lead, budget, center, survey, arms
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon's Mind-Reading Computers Replicate

2008-03-18 22:15:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Pentagon efforts to build computer interfaces that adapt to their users' brains are spreading
 
Tags: computer interfaces, pentagon efforts, users, brains, adapt
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and Frailties'

2008-05-06 00:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon's way-out researchers don't just want to build an Internet simulator, to test out cyberwar tactics. They want the range's operators to "realistically replicate human behavior and frailties," too