US Security: No Match for WikiLeaks and Lady Gaga


Complete video at: fora.tv As an example of how regulatory systems fail to keep pace with technological change, William Davidow points to Pvt. Bradley Manning. Manning allegedly managed to steal thousands of classified documents from a secure government network by hiding the files on a CD-RW labeled “Lady Gaga.” “What the Internet has done is … empowered the individual to do things a thousand well-trained Soviet spies could never do,” says Davidow. —– Davidow explains how the success of the Internet has also created a set of hazards, in effect overconnecting us, with the direst of consequences. Davidow explains everything from the recent subprime mortgage crisis to the financial meltdown of Iceland, asserting that much of it can be traced to the fact that we were so miraculously wired together. – The Commonwealth Club of California Dr. Davidow has been a high-tech industry executive and venture investor for over thirty years. Before joining Mohr, Davidow Ventures, he held a number of management positions at Intel Corporation, including Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Vice President of the Microcomputer Division and Vice President of the Microcomputer Systems Division. Dr. Davidow holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, a MSEE from California Institute of Technology and a BA summa cum laude from Dartmouth College. He is the author of Marketing High Technology, Total Customer Service, and The Virtual Corporation. His latest book