One can’t help but think that McFate (as Nabokov called him) has a special place for Sarah Palin and Senators Lieberman and Collins. After Palin called for ‘drill , baby, drill’ McFate obligingly arranged for BP to have a spectacular … Continue reading
I may not have coined the term ‘creeping failure’ but it perfectly describes our efforts to date to make the Internet secure. Creeping failure is what happens when a worsening public problem doesn’t generate a crisis, and so circumstances continue … Continue reading
A police state shuts down the Internet to keep itself in power. A WikiLeaks dump of diplomatic cables triggers cyberattacks on both its servers and on payment sites that refuse to support WikiLeaks. Somebody – Israelis? Americans? Both? – designs … Continue reading
