From Wired.com In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in […]

Patrick Smith is a commercial airline pilot that contributes to the Jet Lagged blog at the NY Times. In his post, he hits on a lot of sore points for airline travelers. The liquid-ban has been a focal point for a lot of criticism, and Smith brings up some good points. The NY Times: Airport […]

I finally caught up with my Freakonomics Blog reading. I found the Q&A session with security guru Bruce Schneier to be the most interesting of the last 2 weeks. He answered a ton of questions, and gave very detailed responses, with lots of supplementary links. This is definitely not dry, techie/hacker security talk – Bruce […]