Saturday, March 28, 2009

The Air Force Blocks TroopTube

What is the Air Force thinking? Its Internet restrictions have always been draconian, but firewalling the military's own video site is a bridge too far. I've been thinking about writing a short story set a decade or so in the future, when government/military network access becomes so useless and so far behind modern technology that soldiers in the field begin independently operating on an open source network designed by teenage hackers, accessed via hacked cell phones. Until I write my own story, military IT professionals are advised to clean all the white papers out of their briefcases to make room for Science Fiction author Cory Doctorow.

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