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Homeland security theory:
- Stephenson’s Homeland Security Laws
- National Geographic feature: great boost to “swarm intelligence”
- Why doesn’t DHS have a netwars strategy to avoid future debacles?
- Virtual regionalism for disaster and terrorism response
- Government ignores power of social networking at its peril
- 10-point “smart mobs for homeland security” strategy
- New analysis of ad hoc tsunami & Katrina efforts shows networks work
- Connect & Protect: proof networked homeland security works
- Yoda & homeland security: the value of “unconscious” decision making
- Thinking outside the blocks: Lego Mindstorms & homeland security
- Peace Bomb: turn homeland security over to 10-yr. old gamers?
- Toward a real-time web publishing meme for crisis communications
- Preliminary thoughts on emergent behavior & homeland security
- Emergent behavior as model for post-disaster response
- Does DHS need not just new people, but different kinds of people?
- Kevin Bacon’s brain and homeland security (network theory)
- Bill Gates, Ben Franklin, Open Source — and homeland security.
- Collaboration in action: Jamais Cascio tinkers with smart mobs plan.
Homeland security public information and empowerment
- 10 21st-century disaster prep tips you won’t hear from officials
- Pennsylvania Terrorism and Protection site: great model
- Peace Bomb: turn homeland security over to 10-yr. old gamers?
- You, I and James Woods: missing elements in homeland security
- Power to the people: two more things forgotten in disaster preparation
- Reviving community involvement — good omen for homeland security
- What’s missing from disaster and homeland security plans? You & me
- London bombings: why smart mobs for homeland security are needed
- Smart mobs for homeland security
- DHS’s lack of sense of urgency leaves public vulnerable to panic
- Damning argument that Ready.gov program was tainted by political considerations
Homeland security programs and problems:
- National Plan Review: Boston’s catastrophe plan OK, most cities’ aren’t
- Former NSA analyst on why NSA practices endanger US security
- National Preparedness & Response Authority: Senate wants new FEMA
- Katrina: biggest administrative failure in US history
- Whistle-blower $60 million for border homeland security net wasted
- Could conventional evacuation plans play into terrorists’ hands?
- AEI: homeland security spending requires risk-benefit analysis
- Experts bemoan lack of homeland security discussion by campaigns
- Media analyses of homeland security spending: lots of $, questionable results
- Bush & Kerry head-to-head on terrorism and homeland security
- Homeland Security Secretary concentrates travel in battleground states
- Hear the one about the TSA screener? homeland security Vegas-style
- Still more tsunami lessons: logistics’ critical role
- These creeps’ mission creep gives me the creeps: CAPPS II postmortem
Homeland security technology:
- 10 homeland security technologies to watch in 2007
- Distruption-tolerant networks: great emergency communications tool!
- Command Post of the Future: bring it home, DARPA!
- VoIP proved its worth in Katrina — but you ain’t seen nuttin’ yet
- Wow! Mobile Planflu for cell phones could really make “smart mobs for homeland security” a reality
- Connect & Protect: proof that networked homeland security works
- More tsunami lessons: communications tech helps, but more needed
- Still more tsunami lessons: logistics’ critical role
- Homeland security tech: RFID test — will privacy concerns zap it?
- CapWIN is ideal model for regional homeland security network
- RSS as crucial tool for homeland security emergency communications
- Mesh networks for homeland security
- 10 homeland security technologies to watch in 2005
- No-fly list uses obsolete name screening technology
- IM another dual-use homeland security communications tool
Civil Liberties issues:
- Chertoff has mixed record on civil liberties
- How can we claim the moral high ground if we allow “extraordinary rendition”?
- Bush war crimes hypocrisy increases global anger at US
