Articles
Selected articles, book reviews, and interviews through the years.
The Face We See In The Digital Mirror
By Richard Thieme National Catholic Reporter, February 11, 2005 I am a middle-age man who grew to maturity in a world of text, immersed in a typographic sea. I read endlessly and began writing stories as a teen. When I tried to find a market for those stories, I...
Countermeasures to a Real Threat: Thoughts in a Dire Time
some thoughts on countermeasures as a foundation for further thinking on strategies published in AFCEA's SIGNAL .... https://www.afcea.org/content/countermeasures-real-threat-thoughts-dire-time. Also published at the (ACD) American Center for Democracy...
Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror by Steven H. Miles, M. D. (Random House. New York. 2006)
Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror by Steven H. Miles, M. D. (Random House. New York. 2006) Reviewed by Richard Thieme ThiemeWorks PO Box 170737 Milwaukee WI 53217-8061 414 351 2321 [email protected] www.thiemeworks.com We all come...
An Interview with Steven Miles: The torture-endangered Society
Steven Miles is a professor of medicine and bioethics at the University of Minnesota. His forthcoming book, which has the working title Oath Betrayed: Military Medicine and the War on Terror, stemmed from his attempt to learn why the U.S. medical staff in Iraq,...
Persons of Conscience and the Laws of Robotics
Persons of Conscience and the Laws of Robotics by Richard Thieme The Three Laws of Robotics I have been listening a lot lately to persons of conscience. What do I mean by “persons of conscience?” Let’s take a cue from Jeffrey Wigand. Wigand, made famous by the film...
Changing Contexts of Security and Ethics: You Can’t Have One Without the Other – for New Paradigms in Security Workshop 2008
CHANGING CONTEXTS OF SECURITY AND ETHICS: YOU CAN'T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER by Richard Thieme Because implicit ethical and moral dimensions emerge from new social and cultural structures as a result of technological transformations, any discussion of ethics in...
Entering Sacred Digital Space: Seeking to Distinguish the Dreamer and the Dream
By Richard Thieme Defining the Challenge: The 'Study' of 'Sacred Texts' in the Digital Era The single quotation marks around 'study' and 'sacred texts' signify that the words inside them no longer mean what they used to mean. The symbols and images of religious...
Habits of Thought
By Richard Thieme When we wish to look deeply into a subject, it is essential to turn context into content, invisible assumptions into visible structures, background into foreground while illuminating the frame of the picture as well. Security professional Matt Blaze...
Turning Context into Content – a How-to
Seeing Beyond the Trees - How to Turn Context Into Content We Can See Richard Thieme For those bored by the quarantine, this is the audio of a talk I gave today, May 6, for Secure360, a cybersecurity conference restructured from physical to virtual. The topic - how to...
What’s real in the post-truth era?
What's real in the post-truth era? by Richard Thieme From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, December 4, 2016. http://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/crossroads/2016/12/03/thieme-real-getting-harder-tell/94911082/ A web of truthiness, post-truths, and half-truths is...
Ethical Issues for Security and Intelligence Professionals… and Everyone Else
A colleague who worked for an intelligence agency in information security and related areas for decades shares his reflections on ethical challenges and – well, a bunch of things that go bump in the night .… challenges that do not apply only to his work. They cross...
It’s Identity, Stupid
It’s Identity, Stupid by Richard Thieme Published n Cyber Defense Magazine at RSA March 2013 We know that identity is a critical issue for security practitioners, but have we really grasped that identity has become THE existential issue for life in the early...