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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
 
 
 
 
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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
...wars and finance wars During the years, and especially since 9/11, the tipping point acting as the wake up call that asymmetric warfare is also getting embraced by the bad guys, many other niche research papers were published in the context of information warfare and cyber warfare such as Chinese Information Warfare: A Phantom Menace or...
 
Tags: chinese information warfare, information, information warfare, warfare, cyber warfare unit, cyber warfare, asymmetric warfare, unconventional warfare, warfare employs surprise
 
 
 
 
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Netscape Closes Shop

2007-12-30 20:17:11 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...wars. That leaves only Internet Explorer the current reigning king of browser dominance On Netscapes blog they suggest you download Mozillas Firefox and use the Netscape theme going forward if you want current updates with a similar user interface to the original Netscape design. I suspect there will be a number of stragglers in the user...
 
Tags: netscape, netscape theme, netscape browser, browser, defunct browser, reach netscape, original netscape design, original browser wars, download mozillas firefox
 
 
 
 
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Questions to Consider in the Coming Privacy Wars

2008-01-03 21:10:12 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
It seems obvious that privacy is going to be a major point of contention in the near-term future. It's only going to get hotter as major online services compile huge amounts of data about us. There are a lot of "little questions" that we need to engage with as soon as possible. Here's my list of important questions, what's on yours
 
Tags: questions, near-term future, privacy, engage, lot, obvious, data, contention, major
 
 
 
 
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Data & Application Security demand continues to rise

2007-12-11 12:38:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
...Wars It's extremely entertaining for the first 60 seconds!!! Then unfortunately it starts to drag on a little (sorry Rich, maybe if the scrolling went faster). It does drive home a key point. Data Breaches are not slowing down but increasing exponentially and will continue to increase until Enterprises take a more strategic, not just...
 
Tags: security, data, application security, security business growth, data breach wars, data breaches, ponder rich mogull, rich, data security
 
 
 
 
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'Star Wars' Turns 25; Is It Worth $120 Billion?

2008-03-24 04:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
It's the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's stunning announcement of a techno-plan to knock enemy missiles out of the sky. Many doubted its feasibility then, and many still doubt whether what got produced really works
 
Tags: president ronald reagan, knock enemy missiles, 25th anniversary, sky, techno-plan, doubt, announcement, feasibility
 
 
 
 
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Watching CNN can ruin your day!

2008-04-28 12:45:21 by HASH0x8b2cb38 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Wars or something to take our mind off of dealing with reality. It has got to get better, doesn't it
 
Tags: gas prices continue, credit card companies, home prices remain, day, foreclosures remain, oil hit, star wars, food staples, crazy nut
 
 
 
 
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E-Discovery's Great 'Urban Myth' - And Why You Shouldn't Believe It

2008-05-01 17:59:45 by Posted By: John Bace, Research VP in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...Wars technology with Gutenberg laws." Just how bad is the business/technology/policy disconnect? Well, when I graduated from college in 1975, I got a job with United Press International (UPI), which had just implemented a rudimentary form of computer-based "e-mail" to replace the telex (TWIX) messaging system. The messages we sent were...
 
Tags: e-mail, e-mail product, urban myth, e-discovery, technology, star wars technology, smart practice, public policy, strong black coffee
 
 
 
 
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...wars But two weeks ago a jury in the civil lawsuit against that employer, NDS Group, largely cleared the company -- and by extension Tarnovsky -- of piracy, finding NDS guilty of only a single incident of stealing satellite signals, for which Dish was awarded $1,500 in damages I knew this was going to come," Tarnovsky says. "They didn't have...
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds
 
 
 
 
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Satellite Hacker Tells All