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A BRITISH CHIEF OF POLICE ASKS PUBLIC TO HELP STOP ASSAULTS ON WOMEN

February 20, 2024 Davi Ottenheimer Leave a comment

Contemporary struggles against misogyny in Britain are not isolated occurrences
but rather manifestations of historical inequities deeply entrenched within the
fabric of society. So when the Chief of Police asks the British public to
undertake direct interventions to reform itself, will it work?

I mean think about the math behind the fact that “more than a third of women“
face daily attacks.

> Speaking to radio station LBC, [chief of British Transport Police] Ms D’Orsi
> described misogynistic behaviour as “a societal challenge” and urged people to
> “speak up about violence against women and girls”.
> 
> More than one-third of all British women who travel by railway are likely to
> be assaulted during their commute, suggest figures released in November by
> BTP, which polices the railway network.

The rate of abuse is so high, it begs the question what percentage of British
are able and willing to intervene and stop harm instead of amplifying it.

The language used by police is clearly elevated. In both physical and online
forums they describe misogyny in terms of a domestic terror threat, perhaps
preparing to raise liability on anyone who refuses to aid victims.

> “In my old role in counter-terrorism police we used to talk about how
> communities defeat terrorism, and I think in the rail sector passengers can
> help us to defeat unwanted sexual behaviour.”

Should women visiting Britain, expected to travel in peak times, be warned they
have a 1 in 3 chance of domestic terror attack?

This is a nation where even its own war hero was subjected to public disgrace
and forced into an untimely death. Their enduring reputation for permitting
myriad harms against some of the most promising yet least protected citizens
reflects years of delays to classify misogyny as a hate crime.

And when we speak of time delays in Britain, we really speak of many, many, many
years being lost.

> The sexist abuse that haunts modern life is nothing new: women have been
> ‘trolled’ in art for 500 years. Deanna Petherbridge, co-curator of the first
> major exhibition on the subject, delves into a ghastly history.



Efforts to recognize and address systemic roots of British misogyny seem to
benefit from the longest timelines possible. Such persistence in permitting
abuse at unacceptably high levels even to this very day suggests a deep-seated
societal affliction, one passed down through generations without signs of any
real accountability.

The plight of British women, or any women who are unfortunately subjected to the
bias and hate festering within British culture, are thus actually dealing with a
societal failure that spans centuries. Is it reasonable for the Chief of Police
to expect the British public to now successfully help stop crimes so entrenched,
and on what timeline?

History, Sailing, Security


WILL “DEFEND FORWARD” SURVIVE A SHIFT IN NSA LEADERSHIP?

February 20, 2024 Davi Ottenheimer Leave a comment

To be candid, I’ve always found the NSA’s “defend forward” pitch intriguing from
a historical perspective.

> The Navy subsequently developed a “transoceanic” strategic concept, orienting
> the Service away from contesting the oceans and toward projecting power across
> them to distant land masses.

The American military strategy to bomb distant land masses with napalm for nine
months and burn 50% of Tokyo to the ground had very infamous non-surrendering
results. And that played out the same again when even more firepower was dumped
onto North Korea just a few years later.

In other words a relentless “air pressure” campaign from bombs dropped
1950-1953, as just one simple example, illustrate huge limitations of
“transoceanic” power projection methods.

Truman, a master statesman, perhaps explained the problem most succinctly as
I’ve written here before:

> …MacArthur had been outwitted and outflanked by a guerrilla army with no air
> force, crude logistics, and primitive communications, an army with no tanks
> and precious little artillery. As David Halberstam put it, MacArthur had “lost
> face not just before the entire world, but before his own troops, and perhaps
> most important of all, before himself.” All of this happened because MacArthur
> was almost criminally out of touch with reality. […] “I didn’t fire [General
> MacArthur] because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was,” Truman
> later said. “I fired him because he wouldn’t respect authority…”

Talk about losing a contested space. And then there’s the embarrassing loss of
the USS Pueblo spy ship to North Korea in 1968.

> The CIA might be making a subtle yet very poignant argument that all the best
> high-tech in the world doesn’t amount to a hill of beans when basic skills and
> wisdom for placement and use are missing.

The biggest “power projection” advocates often overlook some important lessons
of quiet professional intelligence oriented towards asymmetry. Consider how
false power projections often have helped smaller, more agile forces overcome
vastly more powerful enemies.

Here’s a story that can’t be told often enough. In 1940 Ethiopia 20,000
irregular troops from Sudan made quick and easy work of nearly 300,000 Italian
fascist soldiers. Done and dusted, presenting us a very fine model for active
defense in cyber being highly efficient and strategic, creative more than
athletic.

Fast forward to today and the Nord Stream underwater explosion presents a useful
study along those lines (pun not intended).

> The impotence of the American juggernaut in Vietnam has put this problem under
> the spotlight of history. The one thing the guerrillas have in abundance is
> imagination, and this seems to outweigh the imbalance in materiel. It is the
> author’s contention that creativity is what wins battles–the same faculty that
> inspires great art.

Analogies comparing more traditional big power projection (Russia’s “dumb meat
grinder” approach) onto cyber operations, projecting massive capabilities as the
wedge into an adversary’s digital infrastructure, are frequently used but may
not accurately reflect the complexities of cyber warfare. It’s a bit like
hearing “we estimate Goliath’s imposing size is what will prevent the next
David”. Meanwhile David might just be afraid of tiny spiders. It’s conflict on
the Web, after all.

The NSA’s publicly described concepts of “Cyber 101 – Defend Forward” showed
much promise for being on the right side of “power projection” history, yet it
remains unclear just how agile, adaptive and effective it has been and at what
scale. Can it be a deterrent if its potential remains a secret?

The book that inspired Dr. Strangelove

At the very least I can appreciate that an official .mil site said “Cyber 101”
as if a veiled shout-out to those who know about the WWII Special Operations
“Mission 101” victory. Big hint? Maybe 50 years from now we’ll know how deeply
the NSA landed and implanted quiet professionals behind enemy infrastructure
boundaries.

> …just as a navy goes underway from a port or an airplane takes off from a
> runway, and thus are legitimate targets during times of conflict – persistent
> engagement involves targeting adversary cyber capabilities and their
> underlying infrastructure. This approach prevents adversary nations and
> non-state actors from launching disruptive and destructive cyberattacks in the
> first place.

With the departure of General Paul M. Nakasone, the primary advocate for “defend
forward” from a top NSA position, it remains to be seen under General Haugh how
this strategy will evolve.

> General Timothy D. Haugh, U.S. Air Force, assumed command of U.S. Cyber
> Command (USCYBERCOM) and the National Security Agency (NSA)/Central Security
> Service (CSS) on February 2, 2024, during a change of command, directorship,
> and responsibility ceremony at USCYBERCOM/NSA/CSS Headquarters.

In my estimation and experience, Navy leadership typically brings a superior
strategic mindset to effectively navigate the intricate infrastructure and
multi-domain landscape of cybersecurity. Air Force brass, however, may
prioritize very abstract approaches lacking grounded understanding of
light-touch and responsive asymmetry needed for real measured success in massive
scale operational challenges (e.g. risk MacArthur’s “catatonic” follies).

Just thinking out loud here.

Security


OZZY OSBOURNE SLAMS ANTISEMITE YE FOR “UNTOLD HEARTACHE TO MANY”

February 19, 2024 Davi Ottenheimer Leave a comment

Often I get asked what can someone do if data is taken from them and processed
without their consent.

Black Sabbath in 1970

Ozzy Osbourne, of the band Black Sabbath, offers one example of how to respond:

> @KAYNEWEST ASKED PERMISSION TO SAMPLE A [SECTION] OF A 1983 LIVE PERFORMANCE
> OF ‘WAR PIG’ FROM THE US FESTIVAL WITHOUT VOCALS.
> 
> REFUSED PERMISSION BECAUSE HE IS AN ANTISEMITE AND HAS CAUSED UNTOLD HEARTACHE
> TO MANY.

Apparently Ye used it anyway without consent. Then Osbourne started to very
vocally complain on social media and amplify an already severe backlash against
Ye, linked to a long history of causing harm including hate speech.

Notably, there’s a question of data ownership here. Black Sabbath’s famous War
Pigs song was heavily inspired (if not a direct style copy) from Black musicians
promoting peace and against war.

> The band’s “innovative” sound borrowed heavily from a long tradition of
> “wailing” in American blues.

That being said, Black Sabbath claims their music was meant to fight for the
working class against powerlessness, so it makes sense they would distance
themselves in every way possible from Ye’s toxic aristocratic brand of
overly-centralized power that spreads hate.

Security


TESLA FIRES IN BERLIN, GERMANY DESTROYED NINE VEHICLES IN ONE NIGHT

February 19, 2024 Davi Ottenheimer Leave a comment

Unusual circumstances are being reported from Berlin, Germany, where parked
Tesla fires challenged the city emergency response system.

> At around 2 a.m., a dark Tesla burned on Paula-Fürst-Straße in Lichtenberg. A
> few minutes later another Tesla was on fire on An den Knabenhäuser Street! The
> fire department extinguished the flames and cooled down the batteries. Both
> vehicles were taken to special police quarantine parking spaces.

Allegedly a group has tried to take responsibility for the Tesla fires… I mean a
group other than Tesla.

Tesla never takes responsibility for fires, let alone their inflammatory CEO,
which is why they keep failing society at such an alarming rate.


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