Gongol.com Archives: February 2016
February 12, 2016
An incomplete cybersecurity strategy
We can't win cyberwarfare by accident
Banning holiday exchanges in schools?
Sure, you want to avoid hurt feelings or undue burdens. But you also can't escape the corrosive effect on social cohesion and trust when we nix everything always instead of finding workarounds. There are real costs, even though they're hidden.
India bans Facebook's "Free Basics"
Reasonable people don't want to see anyone cheat their way into dominance of the Internet, but banning Facebook's offerings in the name of "net neutrality" seems like it goes too far
British newspaper "The Independent" to cease print publication soon
Times are brutal for newspapers everywhere
Turkey threatens to flood Europe with refugees
It's probably just a threat -- doing so would probably nuke their chances of joining the EU, but the situation has to be taken seriously. Turkey is dealing with more than 2 million refugees right now -- a population the size of New Mexico.
