Waging cyber warfare is seen as a technology problem by technologists, a policy problem by politicians, and a profit problem by businesses. This confluence of concerns is likely due to the prevalent nature of technology in our daily lives. The media hype of “war” and over the top language describing even small events has not [...]
Entries from January 2012
Cyber warfare and information security whimsy
January 30th, 2012 (posted by: sam) · No Comments
Tags: Cyber Warfare · Information Assurance and Security
Today’s photo – January 30, 2012
January 30th, 2012 (posted by: sam) · No Comments
Tags: Photography
The industrial devolution and disenfranchised knowledge worker
January 28th, 2012 (posted by: sam) · 1 Comment
Higher education exists to terrorize and bankrupt students with tuition costs (double, triple, insert value here) the rate of inflation. It is a current meme in public policy and though higher education has its issues this is a crock and there are a couple of reasons why.
Tags: Scholarship of teaching and learning
Today’s Photo – January 23, 2012
January 23rd, 2012 (posted by: sam) · No Comments
Tags: Photography
Dissertation – Defended
January 17th, 2012 (posted by: sam) · 2 Comments
I have successfully defended my dissertation for a PhD from Purdue University. The title of the dissertation is “Cyber warfare as a form of conflict: Evaluation of models of cyber conflict as a prototype to conceptual analysis”, and my advisor was Dr. Marcus Rogers. Lots of significant people helped me get this far, and lots [...]
Tags: Academic Life
Today’s Photo – January 16, 2012
January 16th, 2012 (posted by: sam) · No Comments
Tags: Photography
Vegetarian – it’s not about finding a meat substitute
January 9th, 2012 (posted by: syd) · No Comments
In our vegetarian experiment we have tried a number of meat substitutes. We have tried tofu, tempeh, and seitan. Now for the confession. We hate them all. No one in the family likes the texture or the taste. I have tried these in a variety of recipes and every time we all leave the table [...]
Tags: Food
Today’s Photo – January 9, 2012
January 9th, 2012 (posted by: sam) · No Comments
Tags: Photography
Information theory and the need for deep thinking
January 8th, 2012 (posted by: sam) · No Comments
On my two hour run today I was thinking about information security and the research vectors that I see within the discipline. I don’t publish very much so I have little effect on the space. I was thinking about how the discipline hasn’t moved forward and more importantly how it seems to be stagnant within [...]
Tags: Information Assurance and Security · Rant
Words matter
January 5th, 2012 (posted by: syd) · 1 Comment
This is a little bit of a rant. I have been noticing an increase in over the top marketing language. We have revolutionary new products. We have wars on everything from drugs to Christmas. We see it and hear it so often that it doesn’t even phase us. Here is my problem with this. Language [...]
Tags: Academic Life · Politics
Today’s Photo – January 2, 2012
January 2nd, 2012 (posted by: sam) · No Comments
Tags: Photography