Obama’s Secret Cyberwars

By: emptywheel Tuesday May 24, 2011 2:35 pm

I sort of get the feeling that the entire legislative effort on cyberwar is going on in a classified annex. Nevertheless, even from what we can see, we’ve got a dispute. As I noted a few weeks back, The House Armed Services Committee included a provision that explicitly granted DOD the power to conduct clandestine [...]

Online Personas and Congress

By: emptywheel Friday March 4, 2011 6:22 am

I’ve been meaning to return to our government’s contracting for persona software for a while. Last week RawStory had a good story providing details of the persona management contract the Air Force put out for bid. RS reveals that the contract was awarded to Ntrepid, a firm in LA with the kind of website that [...]

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