No one can look at the horror of Haiti and not feel both a deep sense of sadness and a desire to help. It seems almost mean and selfish to suggest that we need to do something other than provide our full support to this devastated nation, but that’s exactly what I’m about to do.
Listen to the very first interview on How To Save Jobs.
This one’s particularly fun because USSPI board member Jason Perlow and tech guru Ken Hess interview USSPI’s David Gewirtz on the new book, particularly from the tech industry perspective. It’s a little geek and a little politics, all mixed together!
By David Gewirtz | January 22, 2010 | Online Safety & Scams
Beyond physical security is the growing issue of cyber-security. Don’t think that cyber-security concerns are simply a question of whether a few laptops get hacked. In fact, the digital threat vector represents issues impacting communications confidentiality, identity theft, emergency response, organized crime, and even (perhaps especially) espionage.
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By David Gewirtz | January 7, 2010 | How To Save Jobs
The issues of jobs and population are inextricably linked. If you want to know about jobs, you need to think about population. Strangely enough, very little work has been done on the macro issues of jobs and population. Here’s the key fact: China has 1.3 billion people, India has 1.2 billion people, and the United States has a mere 302 million people.
What’s particularly disturbing in a post-9/11 America supposedly more aware of national security issues is just how much confidential American data is finding its way into the hands of foreign nationals.
By Meredith Fuchs | December 16, 2009 | Presidential Technology
We have received questions from many sources that I wanted to try to respond to more broadly.
Several people have contacted us and asked questions about the Obama Administration’s e-mails and, specifically, President Obama’s Blackberry messages. We have been briefed about the Executive Office of the President’s current e-mail archiving system and we have been given the opportunity to ask detailed questions about its critical characteristics.
By David Gewirtz | December 14, 2009 | Presidential Technology
Some stories refuse to go away. One such story is the case of the missing White House emails. Over the course of two years beginning in 2007, I documented this story in my book, “Where Have All The Emails Gone?” and followed it up with articles written both here on AC360° and elsewhere.
It was announced today that some of those missing emails have been recovered.
If you’re not much of a computer user, you might not be familiar with the term USB. It stands, in geek-speak, for Universal Serial Bus — and it’s the “universal” part of its name that can cause no end of security headaches. Most people just don’t understand how the USB port on most computers can open a back door into any secure facility.
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By David Gewirtz | December 10, 2009 | How To Save Jobs
Back in the dot-com boom, the dot-coms had a lot of work to be done, and not enough Americans were available to do it all. Many of the dot-com firms began to outsource much of their work to make up for the lack of available U.S. workers.
By David Gewirtz | December 9, 2009 | Perspectives
Sometimes it’s tough to tell whether something’s a sign of the Apocalypse or a sign that everything’s really alright with the world.
Today, I got an email from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. In it, I was offered the official iReagan application for my phone. Seriously.
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DAVID GEWIRTZ is a CNN contributor and editor-in-chief of the ZATZ magazines. He is a recipient of the Sigma Xi Research Award in Engineering and was a candidate for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Letters. David serves as USSPI's executive director.
