Smithsonian has a story called “How (Almost) Everyone Failed to Prepare for Pearl Harbor” Rousted by an alarm clock, Pvts. George E. Elliott Jr. and Joseph L. Lockard had awakened in their tent at 3:45 in the caressing warmth of an Oahu night and gotten their radar fired up and scanning 30 minutes later. Radar … Continue reading Pearl Harbor’s original radar plot of station Opana
Update 2018: I interviewed Tim Jenkin at the RSA Conference about this amazing story of key management being essential in liberation from oppression. The following paragraph is from an opinion piece last year by CNN National Security Commentator Mike Rogers, called “Encryption a growing threat to security“: Back in the 1970s and ’80s, Americans asked … Continue reading How the ANC used encryption to help defeat apartheid
The US used aircraft to drop explosives in Somalia, killing a large number of people. This abruptly has reminded us all of the existence of ongoing US military operations there, under the aegis of Africa Command (AFRICOM), and I see confusion in my social networks. Perhaps I can help explain what is going on. Allow … Continue reading Why Were 150 Somali Militants Killed in a US-led Air Strike?
Sadly this topic has remained a simmering controversy for far too long, mostly because of lack of effort on all our part. It isn’t hard to get it right, yet for some reason Poland isn’t getting credit due. The BBC in 2014 described a hugely important and historic event as simply a “quiet gathering”. The … Continue reading Polish Mathematicians Broke Nazi Enigma