Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: Citizen Spies Lift North Korea’s Veil With Sleuthing and Satellite Images, Mr. Melvin Fills the Blanks on a Secretive Nation’s Map
Browsing Posts published in May, 2009
Military projects are infamous for delays and cost overruns. Ditto for just about everything we put into space. Combine the two in the form of military space programs and you would presumably have a recipe for disaster. So it’s no surprise to learn that various military satellite programs have been plagued with problems, many of [...]
PRC’s Kylin secure OS: Part of cyber-war or cyber-security?
Gen. Kevin Chilton, the head of STRATCOM, just declared that the Law of Armed Conflict will apply to cyberwar, and that the US won’t rule out conventional (read: kinetic) responses to cyber-attacks. This means that we consider state-supported ‘hackers’ to be subject to the Geneva Conventions and Customary International Law, including the rules of proportionality [...]
