Little Air Marshall Coverage of US Flights – Does it Matter?

From CNN:
Of the 28,000 commercial airline flights that take to the skies on an average day in the United States, fewer than 1 percent are protected by on-board, armed federal air marshals, a nationwide CNN investigation has found.
But does that matter? A CNN blog commenter rightly pointed out:
Is this really a big deal? The post [...]

Terrorist Dry Run on Flight to Milwaukee?

LGF links to an article at the The Aviation Nation that quotes TSA Incident Report #177 re a flight from Washington DC to Milwaukee:
(U//FOUO) Suspicious Activity Onboard Flight to Milwaukee
(U//FOUO) On 24 October 2007, crewmembers aboard a Reagan-Washington National to Milwaukee General Mitchell International Airport flight reported to a Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) flying [...]

DHS Sucks, Part 42

Yikes.
“The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s No. 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters. All the while, real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions. In the briefing, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., FEMA’s deputy administrator, called on [...]

“Science Fiction in the National Interest”

Excellent news!

Unites States Secret Service as expanded Domestic Security Intelligence Agency? [Updated]

I would be okay if my idea for a DSIA, was actually an expanded and reinvented United States Secret Service. Since it has a history/story, it might be better for organizational cohesion.
What is the DSIA?

DSIA – Domestic Security Intelligence Agency

MI5-like
counter-intel activity
counter-terrorist activity
intelligence activity
network in with local law enforcement & contractors
US Secret Service / Executive [...]

Break Apart The Department of Homeland Security – One Possibility [Updated Again]

I have written before (and here) that DHS is a mess and should be re-worked or broken apart.
I wasn’t really sure what to do.
Thomas Barnett had written somewhere something to the effect that he didn’t like DHS because he would like to have seen alot of it in his SysAdmin function. I wasn’t [...]

DHS / Coast Guard Story: 5GW or Incompetence?

Larry Dunbar suggests that a fiasco involving the new U.S. Coast Guard vessles is really a state 5GW action:
If you step back aways from this article, I have posted, it could read, in a 5GW way, the Singapore government sinks US Coast Guard fleet. You see, the Singapore government owns the US shipyards that actually [...]

More Dept of Homeland Security Problems

The Secret Service this time:
First Daughter Barbara Bush had her purse and cell phone stolen as she had dinner in a restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, even though she was being guarded by a detail of Secret Service agents…
What kind of Physical Security where they providing?

Federal Homeland Security is Still a Mess

From SFGate:
For 16 months ending last year, Transportation Security Administration employees tipped off screeners from Covenant Aviation Security that undercover agents were on their way to the airport’s checkpoints to test whether the screeners were properly inspecting passengers and their carry-on luggage, the report said. Despite the charges, the private security firm was rehired two [...]

Weekend Information Security Links

(ht Dark Reading) Anti-Phishing.org has an excellent PDF –> The Crimeware Landscape: Malware, Phishing, Identity Theft and Beyond:
“Crimeware” is software that performs illegal actions unanticipated by a user running the software, which are intended to yield financial benefits to the distributor of the software.
SecuritTeam: Money Mule Recruitment Over IM:
Today was the first time we observed [...]

New Web Site: CAIRwatch

Keeping track of a major Islamofascist Front Group in American…CAIRwatch

Lawfare Example: Anti-Anti-Ismofascist ACLU and Islmofascist Front CAIR Team Up to to Distract/Disrupt Domestic Security Operations in New York

LGF has the details.

Chuck Norris and 4GW

At a recent local Infraguard meeting – the feds (DHS or FBI – both were there – I don’t remember which raised the point) mentioned protecting malls (03-04) post 9/11 based on intelligence.
All I could think of for about the next 10 minutes was Invasion USA (another ref here) with Chuck Norris from the 1980’s [...]

Politcal Correctness by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

(Via Reddit) from Vancouver Sun,
The director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said Tuesday that the spy agency avoids racial profiling because it is “fundamentally stupid” and does not knowingly use information gleaned under torture offshore because the practice is “morally repugnant.”
Throughout the article it is implied that profiling and torture are nearly the same [...]

DHS And R&D

From Homeland Security Watch:
This story adds to a growing torrent of critical news pieces looking back at DHS’s effort to develop the next generation of aviation screening equipment over the past 2-3 years, and finding unaddressed vulnerabilities. Ultimately, I think there are three complementary explanations for this reality, which have formed something of a vicious [...]

Fear Of Leaking: Another Reason Why Domestic Security – DHS and FBI – is a Mess

From a Washington Post Article on the thwarted terrorism plot I picked this out:
Until the last hours, details of the British probe were confined to a limited coterie of U.S. Cabinet members and senior officials, according to interviews with more than a dozen people who were involved or have since been briefed. The approach ensured [...]

The Enemy in the Sunlight

Communists, Islamofascists, Anti-Anti-Islamofascists and their Useful Idiots come together in San Francisco as photo documented by the very cool Zombie.
The American Ostriches still do not see.

The Fruits of China’s Espionage Program

From Popular Science:
A spate of recent spying cases opens the lid on China’s aggressive military buildup. What’s most troubling: It is based largely on U.S. technology.
It is time for an American MI5.

FBI Security Problems

From Security Focus:
The network engineer, BAE System’s employee Joseph Thomas Colon, used an FBI agent’s credentials in 2004 to get access to a file that contained the encrypted versions of nearly 38,000 users’ passwords, the Post stated. Using a common security tool available online, he decrypted the passwords and broke into systems that contained information [...]

US Street Gangs Going Cyber

Via Digg:
Some of the country’s most notorious street gangs have gotten Web-savvy, showcasing illegal exploits, making threats, and honoring killed and jailed members on digital turf.
Crips, Bloods, MS-13, 18th Street and others have staked claims on various corners of cyberspace. “Web bangers” are posting potentially incriminating photos of members holding guns, messages taunting other gangs [...]

My New Term: Open Source Espionage

With the actions of the New York Times fresh in my mind, and while driving home listening to some leftists on NPR re-assure themselves, I yelled out a phrase – Open Source Espionage.
Open Source Espionage (OSE?) will be used in 4GW (and 5GW…though I haven’t thought about this in that context).
Consider this clear espionage scenario:

A [...]

Toward A Smart Power Grid for Homeland Security

Via Digg:
The researchers need to design a system that stands up to weather. They need to design sensors that can accurately monitor the power grid’s electrical and mechanical characteristics. They need to find a way to monitor the area around electrical equipment for suspicious activity. They need to develop wireless communication networks so the [...]

What Would a 5GW Civil War for the American Nation Look Like?

I write about the anti-anti-islamofascists here:
If the citizens and residents of the USA are not mostly united about the idea of the American Nation and Western Civilization we can not hope to win the combo 4GW/5GW war that we face against the Islamofascists. How large is the internal enemy: 10% / 20% / 30% or [...]

Sunday Night Links

Phatic Communion on Al Qaeda and 5GW: A Possible 5GW Operation is discussed. The article shows that well executed 5GW will cause Analysis Paralysis among those attempting to investigate.
TDAXP links to a LOL version of U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday "sung" by George W. Bush.
Via Michelle Malkin: Saddam and Al-Qaeda ties
Ayatollah's grandson calls for US to [...]

Housekeeping: Adding Homeland Security Watch Blog to Blogroll

I stumbled upon and have been going through blog Homeland Security Watch (http://www.hlswatch.com). It seems to be well written and covers important domestic security issues all in one place.
I have added its RSS feed to my RSS reader. I will most likely have posts over the weekend as I go through all of the existing [...]