Welcome!!

Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 - 0 comments -

Welcome to Chinese Arithmetic, my blog lying in the crevasse between cyber-conflict, digital activism, social science, and infosec. I started this blog as a way to voice my opinions on emerging threats to cyber and national security issues that are the result of terrorism, activism etc. I will admit, I'm no expert- I will be-, but I want a place to start off to find my voice and eventually become an expert. Chinese Arithmetic is that place where I can fine tune my opinions and eventually learn to give the expert reviews that many people can read.

Why Chinese Arithmetic?

I named this blog Chinese Arithmetic, no not because of the Chinese hackers getting media attention lately (though that would be a smart guess!), but because in this field is complicated. Ask any of the experts who have been involved in the hard intelligence gathering projects, such as Jeffrey Carr of GreyLogic or Scott Henderson the Dark Visitor himself, and they will probably tell you that trying to disseminate fact from fiction and signal from noise is a complicated mess. Its harder than (gasp!) Chinese arithmetic. That's where I decided to take this name.

So what exactly will you talk about here?

To put it simply, Cyber Conflict in all of its forms. There will also be some political science thrown in there (I am a college student after all). This is something I became interested in about a year ago, and it is only now that I feel I have attained enough background knowledge to comment seriously on and be taken seriously. As time goes on, the content of this blog may change; as I've stated before I'm still trying to find my voice and a unifying theme not just for this site, but my research as well. Well that's it, thank you for visiting and I hope you comment above.

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