Manufacturing industrial quantities of national cynicism comes with a high price tag paid for in national unity and trust.
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A bracing and sobering look at how cyberwarfare and cybersecurity have changed over the last several decades.
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News is a vital nutrient of the body politic. Without accurate information, democratic societies cannot survive, let alone produce the “alert and knowledgeable citizenry” necessary for their survival.
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Any society will have its biases and seams between different segments. Authoritarian leaders in particular make extensive use of divisive rhetoric in order to promote internal conflict that renders a population more amenable to control.
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The COVID pandemic has become a favorite leverage point for Russian propaganda efforts against the United States. Russia’s strategic objectives require the United States to have a diminished role in world affairs.
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Materials from a recent presentation I gave on cybersecurity and keeping yourself safe online.
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By Sheldon Greaves It’s been conventional wisdom for a long time that a strong password must be a complex affair. Consisting of longish strings in which capital letters turn up in unlikely places, along with numbers and special characters to … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves If you’ve been to college, you have probably taken a course called “Western Civilization” or “Western Civ” for short. It was probably a required course, which means you did all you could to get through it quickly … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves The quote above is a less well-known ancillary to Sun Tzu’s more famous quote: “Know your enemy as you know yourself, and in one hundred battles you will not be in peril. This post is about intellectual … Continue reading