news stories- iranian pwnage, spies and bigfoot
Did Iranian agents dupe Pentagon officials?
Did the Bushies get pwned? (hint: yes)
Two new military commands: AFRICOM and AFCYBER
Africa: U.S. Military Set for a Long Campaign
To fight future cyberbattles, Air Force recruiting part-time geeks
Serbia expects key powers in north Kosovo
Sounds like a step towards partition
Minn. city sets reward for legendary creature
Bigfoot Bounty: Reward Offered for Mysterious Monsters
Comcast Is Hiring an Internet Snoop for the Feds
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
The Comcast story is just bad all around. It’s not like the feds are going to be funding this position, so I guess that means consumers pay for the spies who watch them. The cell phone story is interesting for its method, but also for what it discovered. Guy Debord wrote (in Theory of the Derive) about the student who in an entire year goes mostly three places- home, school and her piano teacher. This study finds something similar, but on a much larger scale. On the other hand, a twenty mile radius covers a lot of ground, and in a dense urban area, it could contain an entire universe.
And a space story, of course:
Virgin Galactic Spaceline: Mega-Mothership Set for Rollout Debut
