A Cyber-Attack on an American City: There was a coordinated attack on the communications infrastructure of an Americna city. And few seem to have realized the implications.
The Confusion of Tongues: EIF 2.0, Standards, and Interoperability: Perens' comment on the Gartner final report to IDABC, in which Gartner attempts to de-emphasize Open Standards and a choice of standards at all for the second generation of European Interoperability Framework. Obviously Perens objects.