Middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. My job was to stand off the house floor and ask congressman what they thought of the days news. So i quit my job and moved to cambodia. I spent a year and a half there reporting on events there, and it was an amazing experience. The country was emerges from 30 years of civil war, from a genocide in which one in four people dies of murder, starvation and disease. What really struck me when i was there, the human resilience. D. C. , theres a lot of data there and information bush to be seeing peoples lives and how they bounce back, it started to change the way i looked at journalism and what i wanted do. And when i came back, i wanted to write more about the theme of human resilience and i found that in the United States, some of the most exciting stories of human resilience are being unleashed by technology. Thats what my book is about engineering. My presentation is less data driven than some of the stuff. What i tried to do is put some of trends
There is no way to turn this clock back. I dont want to turn it back. We need to recognize inherent in each virtue, and i summarized them on the side, is the risk. To the degree that i concentrate or communicate or take people out of the loop, et cetera, to the degree i buy the benefits of this technology and each and everyone of those steps i introduced security consequences that are, give risk, give rise to greater risk, the virtue of the system is intertwined with its limitation, its liabilities and its risk. That is fundamental. It is not just that the complexity of the system gives me these problems. One reason Technology Fixes just dont get me there, every time i buy more security i tend to do so in ways that are involving sacrifice of virtues. I want to spend a minute having talked about software to say a little bit about hardware because the hardware insecurities are quite, quite real as well. Youre aware of that. Easy example i can give is just people tend to think about suppl
By little you send them back as agents for their intelligent service. I think you need to have somebody who is well versed that can sit down and and look at propaganda, counter propaganda. Very important point. When we talk about the islamic state, again, you can defeat of some capabilities, but you cannot eliminate the ideology. Some places like morocco they try to encourage dialogue and train even women to discuss this issue with religions from other countries. Its a long process. I think the point that you made is a practical, a very important one. We are looking at the clock and the clock is ticking. Im going to ask general gray to make the final remarkses for todays seminars. I want to add my thanks to what i think was a great panel today and certainly many, many very fine comments. I think, again, we have to remember that, you know, we are a great country and with great people in the United States, but there are other great countries in around the world, all of them have many plu
The subcommittee on communications and technology will now come to order. And the chair recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. And i do want to welcome each and every one of you. Obviously a hearing of interest as we have a full room in front of us. And it is our first hearing in 2017 with a fully formed federal Communications Commission as often seems to be the case, the senate takes their dear ever loving time to get things done, but im pleased to see that the commission is back up to speed and ill tell you i am pleased that we have five members of this commission and they have different points of view to bring to the discussion on all things telecom related. I think that is healthy for the telecommunications and technology industry. Were here today to conduct oversight of the agency which is this subcommittees primary role. It is very important that we fulfill these obligations because we have given the fcc a Critical Mission and critical task to fulfill. From
Communications in technology will now come to order and the chair recogs ins herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement and i do want to welcome each and everyone of you obviously a hearing of interest as we have a full room in front of us. And it is our first hearing in 2017 with a fully formed federal Communications Commission as often seems to be the case, the senate takes their dear ever loving time to get things done but im pleased to see that the commission is back up to speed and ill tell you i am pleased that we have five members of this commission and they have different points of view to bring to the discussion on all things telecomrelated and i think thats healthy for the telecommunications and technology industry. And were here today to conduct oversight of the agency which is this subcommittees primary role. It is very important that we fulfill these obligations. Because we have given the fcc a Critical Mission and task to fulfill. From the commissionss Disaster Res