Foul Tech Sours

"On an annualized basis, employers will need to fill nearly 2.2 MILLION new project-oriented roles each year through 2027." - PMI, Job Growth and Talent Gap in Project Management 2017 With many seasoned project management practitioners reaching retirement age, there has been a threat of a potential gap in the availability of qualified talent in project management. As the global economy becomes more project-oriented, the demand for project management has continued to grow. Although project management professionals are trained and certified regularly, there are many factors that contribute to the loss of value of project management as an art form. In today's business environment, we want things fast, cheap, and potentially virtual if it will help reduce overhead costs. While many organizations have turned to third party project management consulting as a way to fill this gap internally, a newly emerging method of consulting is coming to change the game: micro-consulting...

In a previous post titled " Gaps In the Fourth Amendment -- Exploited? ", I shared with you an assignment I did for my security class. The assignment briefly discusses electronic privacy and how the Federal Government takes advantage of loop holes within laws that are put in place to protect the privacy of American citizens. NSA's MUSCULAR has been in the news for a while now, and I believe it is a prime example of government exploitation of flaws in privacy laws. In case you do not know what MUSCULAR is, as far as we know it is a project that enables NSA and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to copy "entire data flows across fiber-optic cables that carry information among the data centers of the Silicon Valley giants" ( http://www.washingtonpost.com ). This means that millions of records from internal networks belonging to large companies such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are sent back to data warehouses at NSA HQ. At the time of ...

Aside from the huge middle finger that the U.S. government has been giving it's citizens, there is other government news surfacing. It has been confirmed that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) are coming together to develop what is known as a Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS). The suit is intended to "provide superhuman strength with greater ballistic protection" ( http://www.army.mil/ ), and therefore is being called the "Iron Man" suit by the public. The request from the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) was made back in May. Since then, RDECOM has been submitting proposals and looking for industry, government, and academic partners that could help develop such technology.  RDECOM and SOCOM understand that there is not a single industry or organization that can build the suit.  The suit is required to "bring together an exoskeleton wit...

Here is another essay that I wrote for my security class. This was actually my last time attending this class, as the semester is pretty much over with the exception of the final exam.  During this final class, we touched on laws concerning electronic privacy and the reality is that the Federal government does not protect it. This is an opinion essay, so please do not assume anything factual.  While I did do research on this particular topic, I am sure there are many that might disagree. --------------------------------------------------------------------- In most cases, individuals have the right to some expectation of privacy.   It is likely that the individual has some reasonable expectation of privacy depending on the circumstance.   The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution is supposed to protect U.S. citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.   The...

North Korean is widely known for their lack of liberation. They have some of the strictest government control in the world as far as media, freedom of speech, telecommunications, and several human rights in general.  A major problem in North Korea that has also been a concern to me (and a reason why I prefer to stay away), is the ban on cellular devices. Often times, when people visited North Korea their phones were confiscated upon entry. Although several phone lines are installed across North Korea technically they were only made available to government officials which, in my opinion, is a typical government practice. In recent years, the country has began to allow more people own own mobile devices. Although there is still a pretty strict process to obtain it, I guess its better that they are moving forward than standing still. Although 3G capability is available for mobile devices, the functionality is rather restricted, not allowing North Korean citizens to the Intern...