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- Attorney general nominee says he will protect civil liberties
- Even as an administration that aggressively expanded warrantless surveillance and intelligence gathering enters its final year, the nominee to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general spoke forcefully about the need to protect civil liberties, The Washington Post reports. Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey said at his confirmation hearing...
- Tags: Nominee, Civil Liberty, Attorney General, Workforce Management, Human Resources, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Google and child protection
- Google and child protectionDirty Christian group fingers in thisAssociating Google's refusal to hand over info on how their customer search the internet to not cooperating with Child pornography laws? That is exactly what these evil, christian right wingers want to do. They have enlisted all their crony news media to...
- Tags: child pornography, Google Inc., Usenet, civil liberty, newsgroup
- Discussion threads 2006-01-21
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- Abomination or civil right? Solar clothes drying sparks heated argument
- Is it your right to dry your clothes outside? Is it your neighborhood's right to deny you solar drying rights? Here in this twisted land property rights v. property values, individual liberty v. community standards, energy efficiency v. status. This is all about an informal move among...
- Tags: Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards
- Really at this point, can anybody be surprised to read this, in today's Washington Post: The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic...
- Tags: Policy, Laptop Computer, Obama, Government, Notebooks, Vertical Industries, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Go med young man
- Go med young manThink of all the doctor appointments that you've ever hadYeow---I didn't like any of them---traumatized!Doctors are expensive to educate...... leading to large loans. They require expensive procedures and prescriptions to do their jobs.How many Doctors can the country afford?I've read that the mathematically best and brightest...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Insurance, young man, health care, Socialized Medicine
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- How to read your FBI file
- How to read your FBI fileGood well-balanced articleNothing one-sided here. Those evil Bushies will stop at nothing when it comes to knowing everyone's secrets, won't they?Hey, pal, EVERYBODY thought Saddam had WMDs, even your heroes Kerry, Kennedy, and (shudder!) Pelosi. Seems that Saddam went to great lengths to convince...
- Tags: Federal government, FBI
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- The depressing future of the Internet
- A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...
- Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- MIT students fight for right to expose security gaps in Boston subway
- MIT students fight for right to expose security gaps in Boston subwayPrior restraintThe judge's order is clearly prior restraint on speech. I'd be shocked if it wasn't overturned on appeal. Unfortunately, the MTA will probably escape the financial spanking they deserve for violating the students' civil rights.Illusion is...
- Tags: Constitution, students skill, security, security gap, subway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, illusion
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United KingdomDatabasesSince you're paying attention... look at bills, proclamations, edicts, etc. in other parts of the world including the USA.The senate just passed a sweeping communications bill that has the same effect as the UK's "proposal". Seems that the G8 or some other organization...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Nate, Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2, Microsoft Windows NT
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseThis was not a compromise...it was a SELL-OUT.RE: Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseHardly a compromise. And hardly adequate. You admit it yourself -- seven years with no attack, and just because the White House didn't invite you personally to...
- Tags: Republic, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Should AT
- Should ATChild PornographyI think this a great step forward to get rid of the scumbags who store, profit and share Child Pornography on the Internet. Any company who is willing to take on that responsibility, reporting their findings with the Authorities, supporting with their technology should be highly rewarded and...
- Tags: ATT, AT&T Corp., child pornography
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- The Big Switch: The network becomes the data center
- The Big Switch: The network becomes the data centerSounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0Sounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0. Only this time, there won't even be ANY servers. It will be in the magical cloud. The network is the computer, who needs computers....
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Reading, data center, server, consolidation, Big Switch, network
- Discussion threads 2008-01-13
- Santa's delivered the Open Government Act
- Santa's delivered the Open Government ActWriting on the wall???Bush just happened to sign a document that would only come into effect on the last day of his presidency. The only writing on the wall that he probably saw was that the Dems are going to win the next election, and...
- Tags: Open-Government Act, Amero, Santa
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'Not arrived in the UK yet?Where do you live? The disease has been here for much longer than anywhere else.What is a Government? Even if it is prefaced by Her Majesty's. Can any unelected government be wrong ever? Ask George W not Washington, Bush!...
- Tags: Biometrics, Financial services, privacy disaster, U.K. Government
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- House rejects immunity for phone companies in spy suits
- House rejects immunity for phone companies in spy suitsbettersell your stock in those who are involved.....Abe Lincoln Said it BestHer are a couple of quotes from the first Republican President:"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, immunity, phone company, government, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- Vulnerability auction site founder arrested in Italy
- Roberto Preatoni left, one of the brains behind the WabiSabiLabi vulnerability auction site, has been arrested in Italy in connection with an international corporate spying scandal. Details of the allegations are very sketchy but according to published reports out of Italy Google translation, Preatoni's arrest is linked...
- Tags: Telecom Italia, Arrest, Italy, Roberto Preatoni, WabiSabiLabi, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- DOJ wants to pay companies to retain data for two years
- In order to gain access to data on terrorists, the FBI is asking Congress to require telecommunications companies to keep data records for up two years, reports the Washington Post.The FBI would still need to present a subpoena or an administrative warrant, known as a national security letter, to obtain...
- Tags: Privacy, Justice
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- What's your score? FBI STAR program uses to data to evaluate terrorism risk
- Would you trust a computer to identify potential terrorists? The FBI is working on a computer-profiling system that would do just that and not everyone is happy about it, reports the Washington Post.The System to Assess Risk, or STAR, set to be tested next year, will function in much the...
- Tags: Homeland security, Justice, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Climb mount buffer?
- Here's a bit from a recent fcw.com report by Josh Rogin: Published on Feb. 13, 2007 NORFOLK, Va. -- At the Naval Network Warfare Command here, U.S. cyber defenders track and investigate hundreds of suspicious events each day. But the predominant threat comes from Chinese...
- Tags: Sun, Security, Enterprise Policy, Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Republicans break ranks to oppose tech-backed bill
- Republicans break ranks to oppose tech-backed billWhat a bunch of idiotsAs part of a scientific research and educational institution that's undergoing a massive budget crisis because the NIH does not have the funds to pay for the grants they've already awarded, trust me, increased spending will in fact help...
- Tags: education
- Discussion threads 2007-04-27
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