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All Cybersecurity Technology Is Dual-Use

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Dan Geer is one of the more interesting thinkers about digital security and privacy around. Geer is a sophisticated technologist with an extremely varied and rich background who has also, fairly recently, become a spook of some kind. Geer is currently the Chief Information Security Officer for In-Q-Tel, the technology investment subsidiary of the CIA, […]

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Talk: ‘Game of Drones’

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“Game of Drones,” aka, “Gameful, or Shameful?,” aka “Presto Change-O World Peace, from the Same Team That Brings You Permanent War” Paper delivered at SLSA 2012 Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, September 2012. Full paper: “Game of Drones” Abstract The recent widespread deployment by the US in particular of Unmanned Combat Vehicles (UCVs), especially Unmanned Aerial […]

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“Your Mission Is to Save Lives” (What Are Computers For? pt iii of iixvii)

iRobot Corp marketing material, posted without comment http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=138 iRobot Corporation Skip to content Home > Government & Industrial Robots > Robots > PackBot EOD interest and fees iRobot PackBot EOD More Information PackBot EOD Features PackBot EOD Benefits Your mission is to save lives. PackBot EOD will help you do it better. iRobot PackBot EOD […]

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