Management lessons from Donald Rumsfeld?!

Apparently he's collected aphorisms for a very long time, and Bush encouraged him to share them. And now he's published a book that includes this gem:

“Those who think that they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge”

It's attributed to Margaret Thatcher, and the world would be a very different place if he had listened to his own collected wisdom.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/rumsfelds-rules/

Search the internet for secret stuff like the NSA does: use Google

There’s so much data available on the internet that even government cyberspies need a little help now and then to sift through it all. So to assist them, the National Security Agency produced a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web.

The 643-page tome, called Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research (.pdf), was just released by the NSA following a FOIA request filed in April by MuckRock, a site that charges fees to process public records for activists and others.

The book was published by the Center for Digital Content of the National Security Agency, and is filled with advice for using search engines, the Internet Archive and other online tools. But the most interesting is the chapter titled “Google Hacking.”

Interesting stuff. The document is a bit dated, it was last updated in 2007, but the fundamentals wouldn't change that radically.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/nsa-manual-on-hacking-internet/

http://search.slashdot.org/story/13/05/09/1434237/the-nsas-own-guide-to-google-hacking-and-other-internet-research