Perhaps 23andMe raised the ire of the FDA because of its aggressive defense of releasing BRCA information.
But he did emphasize that the threats from foreign governments were real and that we should be focusing more on the defense of our own information than focusing on others.
USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes, and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full-spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.
Once on American soil, he still runs the risk of being accused of more serious crimes such as "treason" and "delivery of defense information to a foreign government" -- both can lead to death penalty.
That law punishes the transmission of defense information to unauthorized persons if the possessor of the information has reason to believe that it would injure this country or aid a foreign nation.
Robert Norris, a professor of systems management at the National Defense University in Washington, said that Ms. Huff's patent did not address what he considered the holy grail of information defense: how to predict attacks that no one has ever seen before.
Ms. Huff, who calls herself an "idea girl," is something of an anomaly in the world of information defense, which is dominated by men with backgrounds in physics or mathematics.
The current approach is still largely based on an antiquated defense vs. offense framing of information security.
Unfortunately Google didn't tell me why I didn't receive the job but in in their defense withholding that type of information is a pretty standard HR practice amongst large corporations.
"If the defense entered this kind of information, I think jurors would find it particularly compelling," Haist explained.
