In a week when EU officials expressed the fear that "British Agents may have bugged Brexit Planning Sessions", it is interesting to note that President Trump has decided to reverse a previous Obama administration framework for controlling the launch of cyber attacks by the US.
Sabine Weyand expressed the EU officials' fears following an incident in which Britain requested that slides from an briefing meeting should not be released to press. this has led to all mobile devices and ipads being banned from meetings, in case they are used to spy on them or leak secrets. Trump's move undoes measures designed to ensure co-ordinated and considered response by the US's intelligence community to perceived threat. The exact reasons for this have not been disclosed, but given the president's penchant for action, the political pressure that he has suffered following allegations that Russian organisations may have interfered with the presidential election and the fact that a considerable number of potential foes may be looking for ways to hit back at the US following sanctions placed on Turkey, Russia and Iran, it is not surprising that he might want to be able to react quickly without engaging multiple layers of decision making and delay.
At the same time in an almost polar opposite direction, key operators in the digital world are emphasising the need for "brand authenticity" in the way in which they market and sell their products to today's modern consumer. This is discussed in some detail in this quarters magazine from Nimbus Ninety, an organisation focused the London Digital Ecosystem. They also discuss some interesting thoughts from academia about how Socrates railed against the idea of writing things down and how this would damage young people's minds, in a strikingly similar way to which modern social media is being accused of damaging generation Z's cognitive attention spans. Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose.
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