It seems that the GFC is creating a movement of migratory hi-tech workers from Silicon Valley to the Beltway. I’m not sure that an unemployed IT security analyst turned hacker is the best choice for a defense contractor – the really good guys and gals are always in demand – and those DC summers are …
Read more »My friend Jacob Richman wrote a page on his web site explaining why he will vote Ichud Leumi (NUP). As a person who has traditionally voted for religious/Zionist parties – I feel compelled to answer Jacob in public. There are a number of flaws in his argumentations regarding the National Union Party (NUP) 1. The …
Read more »The one-sided UN resolution that didn’t even mention Hamas was not surprising. It’s 14 days into the war on Hamas in Gaza and it appears a good time to share a few brief facts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – 1. Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E. Two thousand years before the …
Read more »Would someone explain the difference between Militants and Terrorist Organizations? Do definitions matter? The PCI DSS 1.2 standard confusingly labels anti-virus “threat management” and security folks often confuse a vulnerability (a state of weakness of an asset) with a threat (something or someone that exploits the vulnerability to cause damage to the asset). I guess …
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It is crucial to ask how we can adopt and execute a sustainable long-term strategy to combat and win the war against Islamic terror. I’m an Israeli and we have seen a series of Israeli governments attempt to combat terror. In most cases, the strategy to combat Palestinian terror centers on worrying what the US …
Read more »I got this from my sister in-law Judith Bedichi this morning – it was written by Dr. Guy Bechor and describes an escalation of security threats to the Jewish State of Israel. The Israeli Supreme Court is highly-regarded yet clearly preferential to Israeli Arabs, with liberal rulings allowing operations of radical Islamic groups in the …
Read more »It’s sad that on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni felt compelled to mitigate their political vulnerabilities with offers of appeasement to Palestinian terrorists. Political spin is not a sound replacement for national pride. Translated literally from the English as the Night of Broken Glass, Kristallnacht was a pogrom in Nazi …
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