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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. America’s adversaries understand this.

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Staying Cyber Aware in a Crisis: Smart Tips for Nonprofit Boards

Board Effect

Threat actors aren’t below the idea of using hot topics, occasions, or popular personalities in their social engineering strategies to commit crimes. There are a good number of hackers lurking in cyberspace that have the backing of their governments —namely in China, North Korea, and Russia.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. North Korea. Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Yet in the last decade the U.S.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. It also requires that they think through compatibility, scalability and deployment long before this gets presented to engineering.

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Foursquare? A Bakery?

Growthink Blog

The teapot dictators in Iran and North Korea may get all the ink, but it is the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian technocrats with their quiet defense of free markets and trade that make hay.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

The class is joint listed in Stanford’s International Policy department as well as in the Engineering School, in the department of Management Science and Engineering. — Why This Course?

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The Interview, Censorship, Terrorism, Dr. Evil, and Lots of Other Stuff

Feld Thoughts

North Korea says huh, what, wait, it wasn’t us and seeks a joint probe with US on Sony hack (yeah – like that is going to happen.) I wonder if they still use Lycos or Ask Jeeves as their search engine. 2600 weighs in with a deliciously ironic offer to help Sony get distribution for The Interview.