Random bits

DHS wants to hire 1000 cybersecurity experts. Too bad there aren’t that many and NSA is poaching a lot of people anyway. In my world “expert” must mean something quite different from how a lot of folks seem to interpret the word. There are not 1000 experts on any modern technical subject, there are on the order of 1-100. Once it gets past that number the nature of expertise changes–or undergoes a phase transition–and the aspects of the subject become “well known”.

DHS travel records look like this.

There is a real sense in the Pentagon that Israel is preparing to attack Iran” and another take on the situation at Information Dissemenation

Using neutrinos for submarine communications. I recall seeing work investigating the use of neutrinos to detect nuclear submarines as well. To mix metaphors, this sort of thing has been on the Navy’s radar for a long time: a JASON report on neutrino detection dates from 1988.

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