Two cases highlighted in Slate today remind us that we are still sorting out the law when it comes to our sense of privacy.

In one case, the Supreme Court takes up a case on the Privacy of Text Messages at work:

The other news flash comes from a finding that our drones in the Middle East are being hacked using cheap software tools–when isn’t it the case?

Insurgents can easily hack drones:

http://slatest.slate.com/id/2238951/?v=1#10

I got to thinking the other day that CISO’s should always be invited at the design strategy sessions for any new information system solution, lest the value created in the application is lost when someone discovers an unrecognized back-door mechanism through which the system could be compromised. I say this because chances are that the hackers of the drone planes were exploiting a radio control option created in case someone had to take over an unruly drone from a mobile unit on the ground.

(Source: CNN)

This article struck me for how directly the author assesses the lack of progressive thinking that has permeated the funding in Washington over the past 16 years. Take a look at the numbers and decisions, and see for yourself how politics, low taxation, and a short-sighted view of how our children’s needs inform the baseline for how we structure learning programs have come to haunt us as we now scramble to train natives on the skills demanded of the so-called Information Age.

The New Untouchables by Thomas Friedman