2023-07-17
“Despite repeated warnings over a decade, a steady flow of email traffic continues to the .ML domain, the country identifier for Mali, as a result of people mistyping .MIL, the suffix to all US military email addresses.” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Millions of sensitive emails have been missent to Mali's .ML domain due to people mistyping the US military's .MIL domain; .ML control reverts to Mali July 17
Common spelling error has misdirected sensitive Pentagon messages to a company running Mali's internet domain
2022-01-21
There are currently more than 600 Pentagon projects that are trying to incorporate artificial intelligence into war-fighting. https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
Inside DARPA's Air Combat Evolution program, which aims to design AI that can fly a plane and engage in aerial combat without a human pilot
Sue Halpern / New Yorker : Tweets: @brandonhamber , @michaelluo , @newyorker , and @hoanssolo Tweets: Brandon Hamber / @brandonhamber : While people fight over masks and freedoms,...
2021-04-03
The UK armed forces have relaxed hiring rules to allow candidates from the private sector to go directly into senior military roles. https://www.ft.com/... via @financialtimes
Financial Times
UK's Strategic Command relaxes hiring rules to let cyber specialists from the private sector go directly into senior military roles
Helen Warrell / Financial Times : Tweets: @shashj , @thepagey , @hoanssolo , @helenwarrell , @shashj , and @esthernaylor Tweets: Shashank Joshi / @shashj : “From this summer, all ...
2021-02-03
„[T]he N.S.A. has a hundred analysts working on cyber offense for every analyst working on cyber defense." https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
Nations are engaging in a cyberweapons arms race, with agencies like the NSA prioritizing offensive capabilities over defense, fueling a lucrative 0-day market
Amid a global gold rush for digital weapons, the infrastructure of our daily lives has never been more vulnerable. Tweets: @hatr , @nicoleperlroth , @newyorker , @hoanssolo , @scot...
2020-10-19
Don't think this is realistic but a good aspiration nonetheless: “In addition to ensuring that military uses of cybertechnology receive sufficient oversight, governments must cut the close ties between the private sector and intelligence agencies.” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
Politico