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In This Issue     Feature: The New INSecurity and INVNT/IP Soundproofed Rooms, Secret Conversations Modern Threats The Age of INSecurity Ranking Thief Nations A World of Proxie? Solving the Problem(s) The Barnacle Theory Inventing INVNT/IP   Quotes of the Week   Upgrades Bitcoins: SNS Members Getting Out Whole Move Over, Siri? Here Comes Cortana The New IBM Grapene Chip Ohhh, You Did It for the Money   Takeout Window Abenomics: The End of the Sugar High   Ethermail   In Case You Missed It... Members Making News   Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links   In Other House News... How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where's Mark?

We would like to congratulate Microsoft on its new SNS site license, and to welcome all of our new Microsoft members who in the course of one short week have set a record for the number of subscribers from a single company.

 

If your company does not yet have an SNS site license, perhaps you should take "the New Microsoft's" example. mra

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Curious About Protecting Crown Jewel IP, How it Drives the World Economy, and the INVNT/IP Global Consortium?

 

All interested SNS Members are invited to join Calit2 Director and INVNT/IP Advisory Board Member Larry Smarr and a great lineup of experts (and me) on March 13 for an afternoon conference and evening reception at the Qualcomm Institute on the University of California at San Diego campus:

 

 

To see the Agenda, and to register, please go to:

 

 http://calit2.net/iip/

 

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The New INSecurity and INVNT/IP

 

As CEO of the new INVNT/IP Consortium, I was in Washington, DC, for a week, visiting Cabinet-level officials to bring them a new message: the nation-sponsored cyber attacks on US corporations are not the result of a purely military plan, but of a new national business model. The perpetrators aren't stealing military secrets alone, but rather have expanded to stealing commercial crown jewel intellectual property. The challenge has moved from beefing up security for some future military attack to not losing commercial advantage in real time.