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...press. The Shorenstein fellowship program, now in its twenty-fourth year, funds a semester-long term for experts in news media. Fellows are selected by a committee of the Shorenstein Center’s senior staff and Kennedy School faculty. This year’s fellows are John G. Geer, a Vanderbilt professor and an expert on political attack ads; Loen Kelley, a television producer who has worked with CBS, CNN, and CNBC; Bill Mitchell, a faculty member at the Poynter Institute who studies the evolving economics of news; and Steve Williams, executive editor for the BBC?...
...Margaritaville in Las Vegas several times a year, but I never see your band playing there. When is that going to happen? -Julie Geer in SeattleMy band has played there. We played there several times. We opened the place. The great thing is the unpredictability of when and where we might show up in a small venue. We know how cool it is when you do that because people don't expect you to do it. I kind of got the idea from the Rolling Stones many years ago: they'll go play little small venues, because when you come...
...need only note the $2 billion in losses caused by the Sobig worm to understand). Critics point to parallels in the natural world to explain what happens when life becomes too dependent on a single source. "The Irish potato famine killed a country. The boll weevil killed an economy," Geer said. "It is self-evident that the desktops of the world are clones ripe for the slaughter"--unless they are Macs or run the open-source Linux software, both underdogs that hackers are less likely to subvert. The latter's ability to be guarded and upgraded...
...arcane jobs. Yet three of the most significant laws of the past 10 years--the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley financial-modernization law (1999) and last year's Sarbanes-Oxley corporate-reform act--all have mandates to protect and secure data. Still needed, Geer argued, are laws that hold companies liable for holes in their security that make us vulnerable to attacks from elsewhere. Responsibility for passive negligence "might be better than, God help us, the U.S. Senate imposing an argument about what the limits of liability should be," he said...
...nation understandably focused on aviation security and biological, nuclear and chemical threats, technologists hope their message--that network vulnerabilities are real and that a significant failure could muck up everything else--is getting through. Security risk is a shifting balance between individual and institutional responsibilities and vigilance. Or, as Geer succinctly put it, "The price of freedom is the probability of crime...