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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
Former congressman Curt Weldon is helping broker deals between Russian and Ukranian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan governments as part of his new job with a private American defense consulting firm, Wired.com has learned Weldon, who is currently being investigated by the FBI over alleged corruption during his time in office, visited...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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Should BRIC be BIIC?

2008-08-16 10:14:34 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
People who follow emerging economies know BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China). There are some serious doubts on Russia's margin of safety for investors,(see previous post ), noted China bull Jim Rogers Q: Where do you see Russia fitting into this as it comes onto the scene Rogers: I dont. Russia will continue to disintegrate. The Soviet Union...
 
Tags: russia, bric, handle, soviet union, handle chechnya, chechnya, countries, bric countries, people
 
 
 
 
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Combating Unrestricted Warfare

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2007-12-15 09:08:23 by HASH0x8472308 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
It's February, 1999, and two senior colonels from China's PLA, namely Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui depressed the world's military thinkers by coming up with a study on the future developments and potential of asymmetric warfare in a surprising move next to the overall discussion always orbiting around symmetric warfare . The study itself...
 
Tags: chinese information warfare, information, information warfare, warfare, cyber warfare unit, cyber warfare, asymmetric warfare, unconventional warfare, warfare employs surprise
 
 
 
 
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What If It Happened in 1979?

2008-01-16 22:23:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Now, I like to label all sorts of things as " fun read, " but there is a limit. I was about to say "hey, fun read!" but then thought better of it. So read " Timeline 9: "The Big D " - what if " the mid-east war escalated and the tensions between the superpowers grew. March 17, 1979 nuclear war broke out: Egyptian missiles with Soviet warheads...
 
Tags: soviet warheads struck, mid-east war, fun, egyptian missiles, alternative future, nuclear war, superpowers, hey, tensions
 
 
 
 
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E-crime and Socioeconomic Factors

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2008-01-21 07:49:29 by HASH0x8b5217c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Interesting points by F-Secure with two main issues covered, namely the lack of employment opportunities for skilled IT people who turn to cyber crime to make a living, and the emerging economies across the globe, whose citizens in their early stages of embracing new economic models will suffer from the inevitable unequal distribution of income...
 
Tags: malware, code malware, modern malware, malware generators, source tool, source, malware bot, source malware bots, e-crime
 
 
 
 
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The US Air Force declares war on blogs!

2008-02-27 20:44:15 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
Whenever I read about China censoring internet access to its citizens, forcing Google and Yahoo to not show certain sites, I smile a smug, holier than thou smile and shake my head about how a government can do that to its people and get away with it. Why would those people put up with it? So I must say "in a day that will live in infamy" I was...
 
Tags: air force, air force folks, troops, line, freedom, blogs, official-use sources, front line heroes, return freedom
 
 
 
 
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The US Air Force declares war on blogs!

2008-02-27 19:44:35 by HASH0x8b35450 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
Whenever I read about China censoring internet access to its citizens, forcing Google and Yahoo to not show certain sites, I smile a smug, holier than thou smile and shake my head about how a government can do that to its people and get away with it. Why would those people put up with it? So I must say "in a day that will live in infamy" I was...
 
Tags: air force, air force folks, troops, line, freedom, blogs, official-use sources, front line heroes, return freedom
 
 
 
 
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The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam

2008-03-04 05:00:00 by Jeremi Suri in Wired Security
 
Newly released secret documents reveal Giant Lance, a Nixon-Kissinger plan to win the Vietnam War by bluffing the Soviet Union with nuclear bombers aimed for Moscow
 
Tags: nuclear bombers aimed, vietnam war, nixon-kissinger plan, soviet union, moscow, win, newly
 
 
 
 
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25 Years of the "Other" Star Wars

2008-03-25 14:50:19 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Not so long ago, right here in our Galaxy, Emperor Ronald Reagan announced the other Star Wars, the Strategic Defense Initiative which started the last phase of the Cold War with the Soviet Union (whom, funnily enough, El Presidente called the Evil Empire.) Here's the story of the SDI program and how it evolved
 
Tags: star wars, emperor ronald reagan, strategic defense initiative, sdi program, cold war, evil empire, soviet union, story, ago