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Stewart,
I really appreciate your context here and I also appreciate the way you can capture significant meaning in concise phrases. I personally plan on spreading this one around as much as I can: "Companies are quite capable of setting the stage for catastrophes well beyond their ability to remedy." You say a great deal in those few words.
Cheers,
Bob
Commented Jun 13, 2010 on Emergency Powers to Respond to a Computer Attack? at Skating on Stilts
Emergency Powers to Respond to a Computer Attack?
When Senators Lieberman, Collins, and Carper proposed legislation last week to deal with the risk of a large-scale attack on our computer infrastructure, the libertarian-privacy attack was not long in coming. Declan McCullagh, a committed libertarian journalist for Cnet, posted a long story ful...
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Jan 2, 2010
Jeff I've always valued this post. Now its one I'm recommending to all my CTO friends in the federal space. The Xmas terror attack is going to cause lots of folks to rethink our systems, and, although I'm sure that smart humans can find ways to defeat any systems we throw at this, I'm also certain that we can optimize our systems to do better by following the model you lay out here.
Cheers,
Bob
Commented Jan 3, 2010 on What Do You Know? Introducing Perpetual Analytics at Jeff Jonas
What Do You Know? Introducing Perpetual Analytics
When the call center is taking a first time caller who happens to be the daughter of their largest customer, does the call center employee know? An employee moves and then submits an address change to the payroll department. Will their internal fraud investigators notice that this new address ...
John, thanks for the post. And congrats! This is a great memo and many of your thoughts seem to be reflected here.
Commented Oct 28, 2009 on DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NEW GUIDANCE ON OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE at powdermonkey
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NEW GUIDANCE ON OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
As a Marine friend says "Agility is the Capability" - open source software and methods is the enabler of this. The DoD CIO office (or ASD-NII) just has posted new open source software guidance for the whole Department of Defense! Only took about 18 months to get through, so worth it. Hopefully ...
OK this is just too funny. But Gandolfini is going to need every bit of his artistic talent to switch out of his Soprano character.
Commented Sep 13, 2009 on "craigslist founder Craig Newmark will be played by James Gandolfini" at cnewmark
"craigslist founder Craig Newmark will be played by James Gandolfini"
Frankly, probably Jason Alexander would be a better fit. Anyway, check out Cast List Revealed For Upcoming ‘Web 2.0′ Movie
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