Anthony M. Freed

Anthony M. Freed
Location
Eugene, Oregon, USA
Birthday
February 17
Title
Editor - Director of Business Development
Company
Infosec Island Network
Bio
Anthony is a researcher, analyst and freelance writer living in beautiful Eugene, Oregon. Anthony founded Information-Security-Resources.com in 2008, and merged forces with the Infosec Island Network in January of 2010. Infosec Island is committed to serving the needs of SMBs and mid-market enterprises across many industries, as well as nonprofits, government agencies, educational organizations, and the infosec community at large. Contact Anthony at afreed@wireheadsecurity.com regarding all aspects of business development, client and community relations. Many opportunities are currently available for business and strategic alignment at Infosec Island. Anthony also writes about the finance industry - particularly information security related topics - and is a fervent advocate of both freedom and accountability. Prior to founding ISR, Anthony received notoriety as a financial and business freelance journalist, including having numerous articles published by leading media syndicates such as The Chicago Sun-Times, Business Week’s Business Exchange, Seeking Alpha, InvestorCentric, OpenSalon, Bear Market Investments, Alacra Pulse, ML-Implode, Reuters, and dozens more. Anthony has worked as a consultant to senior members of product development, secondary and capital markets from the largest financial institutions in the country, and he had a front row seat to the bursting of the credit bubble.

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JULY 27, 2010 12:44PM

Is Wikileaks the Biggest Threat to National Security?

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I'm reading Monday's Guardian here in the UK. It has approximately 14 pages detailing logs received from the Wikileaks website.

It has been jointly published on Wikileaks as well as the New York Times and Der Spiegel in Germany "To reduce the risk of gagging." 

What the files show are intimate details of the war in Afghanistan between Jan 2004 to Dec 2009.  Cyber Security is a key issue worldwide and especially highlighted by President Obama.

Yet one contact made by an alleged disgruntled employee and any protection around the data is gone and the information leaked and published in the public domain in many forms.

Irrespective of the nature of the information ultimately at war and for all the political issues around this war, it is those on the front line who potentially could suffer the most.

In these heightened times of sensitivity protection of information is key. Loose lips sink ships etc.  

However, it is not possible to legislate the whole user base, however many levels of protection are in place. I imagine that the Internet kill switch as proposed by the Obama administration would be used in this type of instance to protect national interest.

I imagine Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is rapidly climbing up the America's most wanted list as the Federal Government look to shut down these embarrassing leaks of information. 

Public domain reporting this may be but the security ramifications could be far reaching.  Wikileaks may not be the biggest threat to National Security but it certainly is one of if not the most high profile threats.

This post was originally at http://markg1975.wordpress.com

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Internet kill switch? Sounds like something China would do. He who gives up freedom for security will get neither.
Ted Zeppelin
July 27, 2010 05:10 PM
Snoreville - Some truths are timeless...
Anthony M. Freed
July 27, 2010 05:18 PM
the best program for national security is to refrain from enraging the muslim world. the best way the protect the soldiers is to deploy them in america. the best way to tell if the government is lying is to compare what they said to wikileaks. or just watch if their mouth is open...
al loomis
July 27, 2010 05:32 PM
I'm sure that Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Il, Stalin-- to name but a few-- would all like (or would have liked) the ability to regulate information at their whim and discretion. Some of them did so for the large part and covered up decades of abuse and foisted systematic totalitarian evil upon the masses, sometimes not even thinly-disguised. How would the world have (re)acted in each of these eras had something like Wikileaks existed to quickly and universally disseminate information to the mass global population and circumventing the usual government-vetted information outlets? Would it have spurred people to action sooner? Or become yet another fountain of dismal information to put out of mind...?

I used to love it when ole' George Bush was speaking somewhere and a heckler would shout out something-- as Bush's goons were busy rounding up whoever it was and swiftly ushering them off-camera someplace, he would lean into the camera, grin that goofy grin of his, and say "I just love free speech".

He who controls the information truly controls the hearts and minds of the populace. The American military has a term for it: C3, which stands for "Command, Control and Communications". The three central pillars of establishing governance.

In whose hands should its direction and application be bestowed?

Be careful how you answer that.
mr e
August 03, 2010 08:53 AM
And some times are truthless. This century qualifies.
Ted Zeppelin
August 05, 2010 01:51 PM