Thursday, June 2, 2011
One From The Archives: 06/02/06 Impaler/Vain/Narcotic Self/Nobium @ The Rock, Maplewood, MN
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
U.S. Defense Contractors Said to Be Bleeding Secrets to Cyber Foes
Jim Wolf writes for Reuters:
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Top Pentagon contractors have been bleeding secrets for years as a result of penetrations of their computer networks, current and former national security officials say.
The Defense Department, which runs its own worldwide eavesdropping, spying and code-cracking systems, says more than 100 foreign intelligence organizations have been trying to break into U.S. networks.
Some of the perpetrators "already have the capacity to disrupt" U.S. information infrastructure, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn, who is leading remedial efforts, wrote last fall in the journal Foreign Affairs.
Joel Brenner, the National Counterintelligence executive from 2006 to 2009, said most if not all of the big defense contractors' networks had been pierced.
"This has been happening since the late '90s," he told Reuters Tuesday. He identified the main threats as coming from Russia, China and Iran.
"They're after our weapons systems and R&D," or research and development, said Brenner, now with the law firm of Cooley LLP in Washington.
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New York City Images As Album/CD Cover Art #19: Simon & Garfunkel "Wednesday Morning, 3AM" (1964)
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Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
Title: Wednesday Morning, 3AM
Release Date: 10/19/64 - Re-Released: January 1966
Photo: Henry Parker for Columbia Records Photo Studios
Art Garfunkel has related the story several times that during the photo sessions for the album cover, several hundred pictures were taken that were unusable due to the "all-familiar suggestion" on the wall in the background, which inspired their song "A Poem on the Underground Wall," which appeard on their October 1966 LP "Parsley, Sage, Rosemarry & Thyme."
Here's one about New York from the "Wednesday Morning, 3AM" LP, titled "Bleecker Street."
...it's been quite a long time since $30.00 paid the rent on Bleecker Street.
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