Physical security in Afghanistan
If you thought that working in high-tech is rough – just consider how tough it is to be a musician in Afghanistan. JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters beat musicians, shaved their heads and left them tied to trees overnight because they performed at an Afghan wedding, a village tribal chief said Monday, a sign […]
US Military firms recruiting hacker soldiers
It seems that the GFC is creating a movement of migratory hi-tech workers from Silicon Valley to the Beltway. I’m not sure that an unemployed IT security analyst turned hacker is the best choice for a defense contractor – the really good guys and gals are always in demand – and those DC summers are […]
Why I am voting Likud
My friend Jacob Richman wrote a page on his web site explaining why he will vote Ichud Leumi (NUP). As a person who has traditionally voted for religious/Zionist parties – I feel compelled to answer Jacob in public. There are a number of flaws in his argumentations regarding the National Union Party (NUP) 1. The […]
The truth about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
The one-sided UN resolution that didn’t even mention Hamas was not surprising. It’s 14 days into the war on Hamas in Gaza and it appears a good time to share a few brief facts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – 1. Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E. Two thousand years before the […]
What’s in a name?
Would someone explain the difference between Militants and Terrorist Organizations? Do definitions matter? The PCI DSS 1.2 standard confusingly labels anti-virus “threat management” and security folks often confuse a vulnerability (a state of weakness of an asset) with a threat (something or someone that exploits the vulnerability to cause damage to the asset). I guess […]
Why Israel is losing the war against terror
It is crucial to ask how we can adopt and execute a sustainable long-term strategy to combat and win the war against Islamic terror. I’m an Israeli and we have seen a series of Israeli governments attempt to combat terror. In most cases, the strategy to combat Palestinian terror centers on worrying what the US […]
The Israeli Supreme Court is a security vulnerability
I got this from my sister in-law Judith Bedichi this morning – it was written by Dr. Guy Bechor and describes an escalation of security threats to the Jewish State of Israel. The Israeli Supreme Court is highly-regarded yet clearly preferential to Israeli Arabs, with liberal rulings allowing operations of radical Islamic groups in the […]
70 years after Kristallnacht
It’s sad that on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni felt compelled to mitigate their political vulnerabilities with offers of appeasement to Palestinian terrorists. Political spin is not a sound replacement for national pride. Translated literally from the English as the Night of Broken Glass, Kristallnacht was a pogrom in Nazi […]
