Internet Connectivity In Africa (AppAfrica.net)

The blog White African recently pointed to a post on AppAfrica that featured an amazing infographic of the state of African internet connectivity in 2009. The pic below is too hard to read but it gives you an idea of what is in the document. You can, however download a very detailed view (as well as some shots of specific areas of interest) from Flickr.

Sabotaging The System, The Cyberwar Plan, The PRC's Cyberwar Capability and Trillions (Cyberwar Link List)

Cyber stuff is everywhere these days and the last couple of weeks have seen a number of interesting articles and videos make the rounds:

• Sabotaging The System. I would start the tour of this particular horizon with the recent 60 Minutes report on the cyberthreat. Readers should note that, in addition to the video below, there is quite a bit of additional material on the website as well.
  

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• The Cyberwar Plan. The National Journal recently posted an online article that discusses in some detail the US's own offensive cyberwar capabilities. Whether you agree with Jeff Carr or not over the appropriateness of this article, it is the most comprehensive piece I have seen on what is likely an open secret among the hackers of the world and those that sponsor them.
• Capability of the People’s Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation. This research report actually came out last month but it is one of those kinds of reports that, if you haven't seen it, you should. It is very solid open source analysis by the good people at Northrop-Grumman for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
• Trillions (via Gizmodo). This one is probably my favorite entry on the list. It is not directly related to cyberwar but it provides an interesting perspective about where all this is going to go -- is going to have to go -- before too long.

Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo.