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David Gewirtz

David Gewirtz
In addition to hosting the ZDNet Government and ZDNet DIY-IT blogs, CBS Interactive's Distinguished Lecturer David Gewirtz is an author, U.S. policy advisor, and computer scientist. He is featured in The History Channel special The President's Book of Secrets, is one of America's foremost cyber-security experts, and is a top expert on saving and creating jobs. He is also director of the U.S. Strategic Perspective Institute as well as the founder of ZATZ Publishing.

David is a member of FBI InfraGard, the Cyberwarfare Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism & Security Professionals, a columnist for The Journal of Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, and has been a regular CNN contributor, and a guest commentator for the Nieman Watchdog of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He is the author of Where Have All the Emails Gone?, the definitive study of email in the White House, as well as How To Save Jobs and The Flexible Enterprise, the classic book that served as a foundation for today's agile business movement.

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  • Va will rewrite antispam law

    By Richard Koman | March 31, 2009, 8:09am PDT

    No surprise, now that the Supreme Court has rejected Virginia’s appeal of a state court ruling that its antispam law is unconstitutional, the Attorney General will rewrite the law and submit...

  • China denies it's behind GhostNet

    By Richard Koman | March 31, 2009, 7:58am PDT

    China says a recent report that says a recent report that says China hosts a massive botnet that has compromised computers in 103 countries is nothing but a pack of lies.

  • Beating patent trolls at their own game

    By Richard Koman | March 30, 2009, 5:31pm PDT

    Saul Hansell’s piece in the Times is called Trolling for Patents to Fight Patent Trolls. Kinda like a war for peace. At a recent patent auction in San Francisco, which in general...

  • Supreme Court won't hear appeal in Va. antispam case

    By Richard Koman | March 30, 2009, 4:58pm PDT

    A Virginia antispam law is now officially unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Virginia Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state law that makes illegal...

  • How far does Conficker infection of British government go?

    By Richard Koman | March 30, 2009, 8:03am PDT

    I guess the question is whether we really expect that government IT is a highly sophisticated operation or that it’s run with the same efficiency as the gasbags whom it serves. Friday, the...

  • Is Conficker from China?

    By Richard Koman | March 29, 2009, 9:50pm PDT

    So, hot on the heels of my last post, reporting that researchers have pinpointed in China the control centers of a massive spy network they dubbed GhostNet, I see this brief from Cnet’s Dong...

  • Massive Chinese spynet targeted Dalai Lama

    By Richard Koman | March 29, 2009, 9:33pm PDT

    It all started with the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan leader’s offices in India, Brussels, London and New York asked the researchers to examane its computers for malware. But researchers at the...

  • Girls sue DA who threatened them over bra photos

    By Richard Koman | March 25, 2009, 10:16pm PDT

    You know, writing about technology every day, you get used to a certain level of stupidity. But I’m pretty flabbergasted, no outraged, about this story of kids being threatened with jail...

  • ISPs sending RIAA letters - but swear they won't suspend users

    By Richard Koman | March 25, 2009, 9:54pm PDT

    Comcast and AT&T have started issuing copyright infringement to Internet subscribers. The question is, is this part of the RIAA’s litigation-free “graduated response”? Or...

  • Outrage in aftermath of China's YouTube censorship

    By Richard Koman | March 25, 2009, 4:17pm PDT

    As of Monday, YouTube is unavailable in China, an unexplained move apparently made in response to the existence of a video of Chinese soldiers beating Tibetan monks, says the BBC. Leslie Harris,...

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