Cybercrime + Organized Crime
For months now, the feds have said organized crime was moving into the realm of cybercrime, using hackers to run scams and break into systems.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Erez Liebermann, chief of the computer hacking and intellectual property section in New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s Office, says cybercrime has been so profitable for organized crime that they’re now using it to fund the rest of their underground operations.
Google Phone Network
Don Reisinger may be on to something regarding 700MHz and Google.
Market Within The State
S+B has a piece outlining minor steps made by the USG to incorporate market mechanisms (and some level of platform thinking) into its day to day grind-
The shared-services providers, in the case of the U.S. government, are most commonly in-house federal agencies deemed to be “Centers of Excellence” in particular LoB service areas.
Agencies identified as Centers of Excellence act as fee-for-service providers to other agencies. Together, the customer agency and the service provider agency draw up a service-level agreement — commonly referred to as an interagency agreement or memorandum of understanding — specifying the services to be delivered, the requirements and parameters, the unit cost and total cost, the cost assessment methodology, and the time frame for service delivery.
Rounds On Target
The Independent – The takeaway:
We Beat Checkers
After 18-and-a-half years and sifting through 500 billion billion (a five followed by 20 zeroes) checkers positions, Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer and colleagues have built a checkers-playing computer program that cannot be beaten. Completed in late April this year, the program, Chinook, may be played to a draw but will never be defeated.