Information Security with Occasional Forays into Other Realms
News, via the IEEE's Spectrum Magazine (and reported by Eliza Strickland) of a challenge from DARPA's Neural Engineering Systems Design; in this case, the need for a recording brain implant has been identified. Indeed.
Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) Report #4799 Document entitled 'A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade'. First published in 1981, and detailing early ARPANET engineering, via the March 2015 'The Internet Protocol Journal' (Volume 18, Number 1). Download IPJ back issues and find subscription information at Internet Prorocol Journal.
via Sara Sorcher, writing at the Christian Science Monitor, for the Monitor's new Passcode department, comes the story of Plan X, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) push into proper management of the cyberwar battlespace.
via Wired's Andy Greenberg, comes news of a United States Senate report, detailing answers provided by 16 car makers as responses to questions from United States Senator Markey in 2014 targeting automotive vulnerabilities. Simply astounding.
Evidence, via George I. Seffers of indications that the United States Department of Defense has awoken to the realization, that with nearly ubiquitous connectivity, comes potentially lethal levels of vulnerability, leading to in extremis scenarios.
DARPA has updated it's six month old : An astounding, curated compendium of fascinating data and phenomenal projects. Highly recommended, from Big Data initiatives - Detection and Computational Analysis of Psychological Signals (DCAPS), to Probabilistic Programming for Advanced Machine Learning (PPAML).
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced an astounding project targeting implantable memory prosthetics to assist service-members and other patients whose memory has suffered degradation due to PTSD. Outstanding.
