Egypt..The Art of (Cyber) War
The events of the past few days in Egypt have introduced a new weapon in the field of Cyber War. I will call this new weapon/tactic Civillian IT Blitzkreig vs the Blitzkreig introduced by the Germans in World War II with the perfected weapons of Tank Warfare and Dive Bombers striking quickly to drop bombs followed by tanks/soldiers to take land quickly before the enemies like Poland could respond.
While the new weapons/tactics that were used in Egypt are social network sites; for example Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ (Egypt has one of the largest groups of Facebook users in the world), Google, software applications (The Egyptian armed Forces arrested a Google http://www.google.com/ executive who was later released) along with a coordination that leads us to believe it was a planned operation with multiple groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Communists, College Students, Union Activists, and Civil Libertarians according to various reports worldwide (Mr. Shines is a registered journalist with the PR Newswire), along with some possible help from Hammas/Iran that will become a Case Study in Asymetric Warfare that will be studied at War Colleges in the U.S., UK, China, Russia, Germany, Iran and around the world. In the book Art of War available on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/ it is described how Sun Tzu a Chinese General from ancient times felt breaking the enemy's will without raising a sword/(firing a shot in modern times) is the best victory because it saves resources, and this seems to be the case with Hosni Mubarak the former President of Egypt. Former President of Egypt in the 1970s Anwar Sadat Mubarak's former commander when he was in the Egyptian Airforce was killed in a hail of machine gun fire & grenades that President Mubarak was lucky to survive even though he may have been wounded (To view video of the attck from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhu-YgCyPz4), but General Mubarak still managed to survive the attack on President Sadat, take charge, and become President of Egypt surviving a takeover and that is why Egypt has had a crackdown for so many years - hopefully this transition in Egypt will be peaceful, democratic and the peace treaty with Isra-el & Egypt will stand. The only question now is who launched this Civillian IT Blitzkreig with civillians/insurgents melting quickly back into the local population, and what lessons will be learned in how to defend against this type of attack other than China's approach, which led to them building the Great Firewall of China to defend against just such an asymetric attack. Russia has also suffered an attack at the Moscow Airport, we give our condolences to the people of Russia, along with the family and friends of any who were injured or died in the attack at the Moscow Airport; Moscow is the capital of Russia.
While the new weapons/tactics that were used in Egypt are social network sites; for example Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ (Egypt has one of the largest groups of Facebook users in the world), Google, software applications (The Egyptian armed Forces arrested a Google http://www.google.com/ executive who was later released) along with a coordination that leads us to believe it was a planned operation with multiple groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Communists, College Students, Union Activists, and Civil Libertarians according to various reports worldwide (Mr. Shines is a registered journalist with the PR Newswire), along with some possible help from Hammas/Iran that will become a Case Study in Asymetric Warfare that will be studied at War Colleges in the U.S., UK, China, Russia, Germany, Iran and around the world. In the book Art of War available on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/ it is described how Sun Tzu a Chinese General from ancient times felt breaking the enemy's will without raising a sword/(firing a shot in modern times) is the best victory because it saves resources, and this seems to be the case with Hosni Mubarak the former President of Egypt. Former President of Egypt in the 1970s Anwar Sadat Mubarak's former commander when he was in the Egyptian Airforce was killed in a hail of machine gun fire & grenades that President Mubarak was lucky to survive even though he may have been wounded (To view video of the attck from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhu-YgCyPz4), but General Mubarak still managed to survive the attack on President Sadat, take charge, and become President of Egypt surviving a takeover and that is why Egypt has had a crackdown for so many years - hopefully this transition in Egypt will be peaceful, democratic and the peace treaty with Isra-el & Egypt will stand. The only question now is who launched this Civillian IT Blitzkreig with civillians/insurgents melting quickly back into the local population, and what lessons will be learned in how to defend against this type of attack other than China's approach, which led to them building the Great Firewall of China to defend against just such an asymetric attack. Russia has also suffered an attack at the Moscow Airport, we give our condolences to the people of Russia, along with the family and friends of any who were injured or died in the attack at the Moscow Airport; Moscow is the capital of Russia.
Nokia & HP Together Forever...... ?
As I read the headlines in the Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/ the thought occurred to me; could Nokia the leader in smart phones in Europe and HP a major IT vendor in the U.S. merge? Maybe..the big hurdle would be government regulations and who would be in charge. CEOs love mergers because they make out like bandits when it comes to $$$ but when it comes to who is in charge that is when things tend to break down, along with a country loosing control of a major asset such as Nokia http://www.nokia.com/. Stay tunned and we want to hear your thoughts from the all over the globe, the CEO of Nokia, Elop is from Canada the first foreign CEO of Nokia http://www.nokia.com/ and we want to hear from all readers on if this possible merger should or should not happen. Right now as we go to press it looks as if Microsoft, Mr. Elop's former company may make the move..to see concepts of Nokia & Microsoft smart phones in development click on http://www.facebook.com/nokia?ref=ts#!/album.php?aid=275626&id=36922302396, you have to sign into Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ to see the smart phone models...
NYSE conquered by the Germans?....Nein! (German for No!)
Speaking of regulations, the Germans made an offer to buy the New York Stock Exchange. This proposed purchase would allow publicly companies to evade U.S. financial regulations that have and are being put in place since the 2008 Stock market crash after the economies around the world are finally crawling out one of the deepest holes since the great depression. This is important from a technology standpoint because stock broker trading software platforms such as Archipelego used on the New York Stock Exchange Euronext are some of the most sophisticated software, and run on the most advanced computer mainframes in the world, from companies such as IBM http://www.ibm.com/. For investors who think this is a good idea for the U.S. look no further that Chrysler before Chrysler was purchased by Daimler Benz. Chrysler had billions on it's balance sheet and was a good company when Daimler took it over and a few years later Daimler Benz spit Chrysler out broke, after having taken the best of their automotive IT technology and was a symbolic victory against the U.S. (Chrysler produced the Jeep that help defeat the Germans in WW II). To read the inside story of the Chrysler takeover by Daimler Benz read Taken for a Ride a book on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/ an excellent read! Fiat Spa http://www.fiat.com/cgi-bin/pbrand.dll/FIAT_COM/home.jsp is nursing Chrysler back to health, check out the Chrysler Super Bowl Video http://www.youtube.com/user/chrysler?bid=5079147&adid=233347236&pid=57249858&KWNM=chrysler+super+bowl&KWID=150748060&channel=PS with a certain rap start from Detroit, GM http://www.gm.com/ has a General (fomer military man in charge) in charge, and Ford's Mullaly with Bill Ford http://www.ford.com/ are my votes for the Best Executives for the Decade with the job they done and are doing at Ford. Let's not waste the good work President Obama and the Democrats did to pull the U.S. and world economy out it's slump (GM for example owns Adam Opel http://www.opel.com/flash.html in Germany, Vaux Hall http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/flash.html brands in Europe, and has a great partnership with Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation http://www.saicgroup.com/English/index.shtml) by turning everything over to Berlin. I love Germany, but a takeover of the NYSE by Germany is a good way to pick the pocket of the U.S. say bye, bye to the Dollar $ as an international currency and trade it for the Euro when just earlier this year and last Angela Merkel the Chancellor of Germany was doubting the viability of the Euro when it came to bailouts for Greece and Ireland, what do you think they would do to the U.S.? So my answer to the the takeover of the NYSE by Berlin is Nein! (German for No!). Please post any feedback positive or negative and thanks for reading. So until the next episode Later, Hasta La Vista (Spanish), Ciao (Italian) Au Revoir (French) Baby!!!.......
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