Monthly archives: November, 2010

Google Confronts China's "Three Warfares"

Google Confronts China’s “Three Warfares”, by Timothy L. Thomas. Parameters, Summer 2010, Vol. 40, No. 2, U.S. Army War College. “In early January 2010, Google announced that a computer attack originating from China had penetrated its corporate infrastructure (in mid-December) and stolen information from its computers, most likely source code. The hackers also accessed the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, ID Theft, Search Engines

Engineering the Climate: Research and Strategies for International Coordination

Engineering the Climate: Research and Strategies for International Coordination, Chairman Bart Gordon, Committee on Science and Technology U.S. House of Representatives, October 2010 “Climate engineering, also known as geoengineering, can be described as the deliberate large scale modification of the earth’s climate systems for the purposes of counteracting and mitigating climate change. As this subject …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

SEC Staff Publishes Progress Report on Work Plan for Global Accounting Standards

News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Chief Accountant and Division of Corporation Finance today published their first progress report on the Work Plan related to global accounting standards. The Commission directed agency staff earlier this year to execute the Work Plan to provide the information needed to evaluate the implications of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents