June 2010
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Pentagon tightens...
DOD calls on contractors to reduce overhead spending, increase efficiencies in cost and production
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SOURCE: Washington Technology
30June2010 4:40pmPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The Defense Department is calling on government contractors to do their part to reduce inefficiencies in procurement as part of a larger stratgey to address...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Ex-Spy: May Be 50...
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SOURCE: AP
30June2010 4:35pmPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: One of the Cold War’s most famous defectors says Russia may have as many as 50 deep-cover couples spying inside the United States.
Oleg Gordievsky, a former deputy head of the KGB in London who defected in 1985, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev would know the number of...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: NY Suspect Dubbed...
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SOURCE: AP
30June2010 4:25pmPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Anna Chapman has been called the femme fatale of a spy case with Cold War-style intrigue — a striking redhead and self-styled entrepreneur who dabbled in real estate and mused on her Facebook page, “if you can dream, you can become it.”
Chapman’s American dream,...
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Saudi king assures...
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SOURCE: Haaretz
30June2010 4:19pmPDT
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: U.S. President Barack Obama and Saudi King Abdullah met Tuesday to discuss the Middle East peace process and the importance of securing a Palestinian homeland alongside a strong Israeli state, Obama said on Tuesday.
“They expressed their hope that proximity talks...
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: Australia taps ISPs...
Internet Industry Association releases code of conduct for Internet service providers to help reduce threats posed by hijacked computers that act as zombies for launching botnet attacks
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SOURCE:Federal Computer Week
30June2010 4:15pmPDT
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: A new voluntary code of conduct for Australian Internet Service...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Featured Blog:...
Why Games?
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SOURCE: Sources And Methods
30June2010 10:56amPDT
By Kristan J. Wheaton
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:
(Read Part 1)
“…Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events… By playing at...
GCIS TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING: Next-Gen Biotech Patent...
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SOURCE: WIRED
26June2010 10:49amPDT
GCIS TECHNOLOGY UPDATE: A Supreme Court ruling June 28 on idea patents disappointed those hoping for an overhaul of intellectual property claims for software, but it may inspire new patent tests aimed at the legally troublesome biotechnology field.
According to the court, the widely followed...
GCIS SPACE SECURITY BRIEFING: 2010:A Space Policy
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SOURCE: TechNewsWorld
30June2010 10:27amPDT
GCIS SPACE SECURITY UPDATE: The President of the United States laid out his administration’s plans for the country’s space exploration efforts Monday, with an emphasis on international cooperation and the commercial space industry. Reactions were mixed. Supporters agree there’s...
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Landau: Barak...
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SOURCE: Arutz Sheva
30June2010 10:18amPDT
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau (Yisrael Beiteinu) said that Tuesday Defense Minister Ehud Barak appears to suffer from “battered woman syndrome.”
“Defense Minister Ehud Barak brought us the retreat from Lebanon, supported the Disengagement in Gaza and the...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Petraeus Vows...
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SOURCE: AP
30June2010 10:15amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Gen. David Petraeus cautiously endorsed President Barack Obama’s exit plan for the Afghan war on Tuesday, leaving himself room to recommend changes or delays as he interviewed for the job of commander of the stalemated war.
Petraeus, the emergency replacement following the...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Petraeus Calls...
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SOURCE: American Forces Press Service
30June2010 10:10amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON – Afghanistan is a test of wills, and the enemy has to know the United States and its allies have the will to prevail, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus said before the Senate Armed Services Committee today.
The testimony was part of the...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Oil Prices Plummet On...
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SOURCE: AP
30June2010 10:06amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Oil prices plummeted Tuesday as ebbing consumer confidence in the economic recovery set off concerns about gasoline demand for the busy summer season.
Benchmark crude oil fell $2.31, or 3 percent, to settle at $75.94 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gasoline and other energy...
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Abbas Talks Nicely...
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SOURCE: Arutz Sheva
30June2010 10:03amPDT
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas spoke to American Jews about peace without incitement against Jews while back home, exactly eight days later, official PA TV called Jews “our enemies.” A week after that, it continued to teach children that all...
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: UPDATE: Judge...
Online: http://www.sonofhamas.com
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SOURCE: AP
30June2010 9:45amPDT
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: SAN DIEGO — A U.S. immigration judge in San Diego has agreed to grant asylum to the son of a Hamas founder who spied for Israel.
A deportation hearing Wednesday for 32-year-old Mosab Hassan Yousef lasted only 15 minutes. The judge ruled that...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: DHS puts finishing...
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SOURCE: Washington Technology
30June2010 9:41amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:
For months, contractors large and small have fixated on the Homeland Security Department’s plans for a new departmentwide contracting vehicle for information technology services, named the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions II.
Now,...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: FBI: Spies Hid Secret...
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SOURCE: WIRED
30June2010 9:11amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:
Moscow communicated with a ring of alleged spies in America by encoding instructions in otherwise innocent-looking images on public websites. It’s a process called steganography. And it’s one of a slew of high-tech and time-tested methods that the deep-cover agents and their...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: School Uses Video...
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SOURCE: NPR
30June2010 9:06amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:
A novel public school in New York City has taken the video game as its model for how to teach. Students use video games and design them as part of their classes. As Quest to Learn is wrapping up its first year, those behind the program say game-based learning is integral to...
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: An Interview with...
Israel, Islam, and the Obama agenda
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SOURCE: New English Review
29June2010 8:00amPDT
By Jerry Gordon
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Dr. Richard L. Rubenstein is an ordained rabbi, noted theologian and author. He began his religious training at Cincinnati’s Hebrew Union College, receiving the B.A. from the University of Cincinnati. He was...
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Israeli Foreign...
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SOURCE: Reuters
29June2010 4:15amPDT
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: JERUSALEM - No Palestinian state will be founded in the next two years, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday, citing difficulties in U.S.-mediated peace negotiations as well as divisions among the Palestinians.
Lieberman appeared to be referring to...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Google Struggles to...
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SOURCE: WIRED
29June2010 4:06amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: On its tenth anniversary in 2008, Google promised $10 million to the best five ideas for using technology to improve the world, through Project 10100 – a neat play on words (10 to the 100th power expresses the number “googol,” which is a one followed by one hundred zeroes).
...
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: Obama Backs More...
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SOURCE: WIRED
26June2010 4:01amPDT
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: President Obama put the weight of the Oval Office behind a plan to free up another 500 MHz of spectrum for wireless data services Monday, touting the benefits of the “wireless broadband revolution” as he ordered federal agencies to work together to free more of the...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Featured Blog:...
Introduction/Strategy and Strategic Decisions/Intelligence in the Formulation of Strategy
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SOURCE: Sources and Methods
29June2010 3:49amPDT
by Kristan J. Wheaton
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Strategic intelligence is considered by intelligence professionals to be the highest form of the analytic art. There is a tremendous need for this...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: The rise of Raed Salah
The incendiary leader of the Islamic Movement’s Northern Branch is posing a growing challenge to the security authorities.
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SOURCE: JPost
29June2010 3:25amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Umm el-Fahm – the heartland of the Islamic Movement’s Northern Branch – was on the verge of full scale rioting in the hours after the Gaza flotilla...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: 'Strike on Iran would...
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SOURCE: JPost
29June2010 3:15amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A military strike against Iran would be “incredibly destabilizing” to the region said the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen. He believes Iran will continue to pursue nuclear weapons, even if sanctions against the country are increased.
...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Russia to continue...
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SOURCE: JPost
29June2010 3:12amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference Tuesday that the Quartet mechanism needed to be expanded to be more effective.
Following a meeting with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Lavrov said that the quartet recently decided to set up a committee that...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Congresswoman Fears...
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SOURCE: Arutz Sheva
29June2010 3:06amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A Republican Congresswoman has warned that Hizbullah terrorists, hooked up with Mexican drug cartels, may be planning ”Israel-like bombings” against customs officials or National Guard units on the U.S. border.
North Carolina legislator Sue Myrick wrote Homeland Security...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Third US carrier,...
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SOURCE: DEBKAfile
29June2010 3:01amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Washington has posted a third carrier opposite Iran’s shores. It is supported by amphibious assault ships and up to 4,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel, bringing the total US strength in these waters to three carriers...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Drug cartels take...
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SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
29June2010 2:54amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Drug traffickers are spending $1 million a pop to build boats that look like submarines and can carry 4 tons of cocaine for 2,000 miles without refueling.
Nicknamed “narco subs,” they’re made to sneak loads up from South America to Mexico, where...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Most Wanted: White...
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SOURCE: FBI
28June2010 2:20pmPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:
White Collar Crimes
Eric V. Bartoli
Wire Fraud; Mail Fraud; Money Laundering
Orit Tuil Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud
John Edos Star Failure to Appear - Conspiracy to Commit Bank and Wire Fraud Alexandr Bobnev Conspiracy to...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: HEALTH CARE FRAUD
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SOURCE: FBI
28June2010 1:43pmPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A pharmaceutical company marketed four drugs to doctors. The drugs had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for specific medical conditions—like rheumatoid arthritis, schizophrenia, and neuropathic pain—but the company promoted the drugs for other uses as...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Why Are Russia's...
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SOURCE: RadioFreeEurope/Radio Liberty
28June2010 9:58amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: MOSCOW — Time has stood still in Sayid Fekhretdinov’s bedroom.
A school bag, heavy with books, lies unopened on the floor. Toy animals stand silently arranged on dusty shelves. On the desk, a framed photograph shows a slender, dark-eyed boy...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Carter To Talk With...
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SOURCE: DefenseNews
28June2010 9:40amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter has summoned leading U.S. industry executives and military acquisition officials to Washington for two unprecedented sessions June 28 to discuss policy, process and work force changes meant to reduce the cost of acquiring goods and...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Justices Extend Gun...
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SOURCE: AP
28June2010 9:30amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court held Monday that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live, advancing a recent trend by the John Roberts-led bench to embrace gun rights.
By a 5-4 vote, the justices cast doubt on handgun bans in the Chicago area, but...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Afghanistan Still...
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SOURCE: American Forces Press Service
28June2010 9:25amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON – Afghanistan remains crucial to American national interests, and the United States will need to provide assistance to that nation for years, President Barack Obama said in Toronto yesterday.
During a break in the G-20 Summit, Obama said...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Iran ’Punishes’ UN,...
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SOURCE: Arutz Sheva
28June2010 9:20amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Iran says it is “punishing” the United Nations by refusing to hold talks on its nuclear program in retaliation for a new round of sanctions that the Security Council approved. Continuing his offensive against the West, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also threatened...
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Hamas leader in...
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SOURCE: DEBKAfile
28June2010 9:15amPDT
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Some US intelligence circles are now suggesting that the high-ranking Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh who died by an unknown hand in Dubai last January was not targeted for death but for capture as a live hostage against the release of Gilead Shalit, the Israeli...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Blog Feature: "How...
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SOURCE: Sources And Methods
28June2010 8:51amPDT
by Kristan J. Wheaton
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Blog Feature - One of the questions that has really bothered me over the years concerns the size of the national security intelligence “industry” worldwide. When you add it all up, how much money do the states of the world spend...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Panetta: American-Born...
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SOURCE: FoxNews
28June2010 1:55amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: CIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday that the American-born cleric tied to several recent terror plots on U.S. soil has “declared war” on the United States and will be treated as a terrorist despite his U.S. citizenship.
Panetta denied claims that Anwar al-Awlaki...
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: Interior catches...
Losing the encrypted CD wasn’t the main problem
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SOURCE: FCW
28June2010 1:50amPDT
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: Interior Department officials took the cautious route — some say too cautious — earlier this month when they disclosed that they could not locate a CD containing personally identifiable information for about 7,500 federal...
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: Cybersecurity...
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SOURCE: FCW
26June2010 1:47amPDT
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE:
Few things agitate the workforce more than having the government get involved in deciding who qualifies as a professional in a particular field. Passions are likely to be stirred once again now that the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency is set to recommend...
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: 'Identity ecosystem'...
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SOURCE: FCW
28June2010 1:45amPDT
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: Imagine signing on to your computer, logging onto a secure Web site or handling a sensitive document electronically — all without needing a user name or password.
The draft national strategy for building a new “identity ecosystem” that the Obama administration released...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: To Reach Afghans,...
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SOURCE: Wired News Danger Room
28June2010 1:40amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The Pentagon’s ultimate team of technologists is looking to looking to bridge the cultural divide in Afghanistan — with storytelling, pantomime and the Wizard of Oz.
After nine years of conflict, the U.S. military is still having trouble finding common ground...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: CIA Chief: Two Years...
…Progress In Afghanistan slower than anticipated
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SOURCE: Wired/ABC News
28June2010 1:37amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: In an EXCLUSIVE interview on “This Week,” CIA Director Leon Panetta said that making progress in Afghanistan is both “harder” and going more slowly than anticipated.
“There are some serious problems” in...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Military Mulls New...
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SOURCE: Wired News Danger Room
28June2010 1:35amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: “Psychological Operations” sounds awesomely creepy. In actuality, the military discipline can be pretty mundane: designing leaflets and driving sound trucks around, not plying your enemies with LSD.
Now the Pentagon brass is mulling a name change that would...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: 10 Things to Know...
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SOURCE: Esquire
28June2010 1:31amPDT
By Thomas P.M. Barnett
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Well, well, well — where have we seen this before?
The indiscreet U.S. commander whose tongue digs his own grave.
The stunning resignation submitted within hours of the magazine’s online posting of the story.
And General David Petraeus — yet...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Riot police use tear...
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SOURCE: Canadian Press
26June2010 2:30PDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: TORONTO — A roving band of violent G20 protesters has taken over the streets of Toronto, setting fire to a police cruiser and smashing windows, as terrified people run for cover.
The protesters are dressed in black balaclavas like the anarchist group Black Bloc.
A...
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Sense of Touch Shapes...
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SOURCE: WIRED
26June2010 9:10amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Sitting in a hard chair can literally turn someone into a hardass. Holding a heavy clipboard leads to weighty decisions. Rubbing rough surfaces makes us prickly. So found researchers studying the interaction between physical touch and social cognition.
The experiments included...
GCIS AIR SECURITY BRIEFING: MIT Team Designs...
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SOURCE: WIRED
26June2010 8:56amPDT
GCIS AIR SECURITY UPDATE:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers recently released a concept aircraft design that could use 70 percent less fuel than current commercial airliners. The simple secret, they say: Optimize the aircraft for modern, efficient jet engines.
Jet engines these days...
GCIS AIR SECURITY BRIEFING: United Airlines Tries...
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SOURCE: WIRED
26June2010 8:51amPDT
GCIS AIR SECURITY UPDATE: United Airlines has taken hypermiling to the skies.
On a flight between between Chicago and Frankfurt, the airline employed every trick in the book to show what can be done to reduce fuel burn in existing aircraft. The result was a savings of more than 1,400 gallons of jet fuel...
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: You Don’t Want ISPs...
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SOURCE: WIRED
26June2010 8:42amPDT
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: There’s a complicated fight in D.C. right now over how the FCC classifies broadband services, so it can regain the power to impose some basic rules on the industry.
Free-market groups and the industry are banging the table, arguing against the consequences — saying that the...
