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- In age of digital cheating, a return to the Honor Code
- In age of digital cheating, a return to the Honor CodeOn CheatingPre-school cheating: you sit down and talk it over with the cheater and explain why it's wrong and what the consequences will be in later life. Award the game, cookie, toy to the person who didn't cheat...
- Tags: zero, Detention
- Discussion threads 2007-02-15
- 'Homeless hacker' says he'll accept plea bargain
- 'Homeless hacker' says he'll accept plea bargainHouse detention???You've gotta be fudding kidding, right??? House detention for breaking into commerical computers??? When is the judicial system gonna catch up with the electronic age and criminal activity??? I'd say three years jail time PLUS full financial restitution, PLUS all court costs AND...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, hacker, plea bargain, detention, punishment, plea
- Discussion threads 2004-01-06
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- Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisoners
- An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales. A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all prisoners in England...
- Tags: Data Loss, Data, Worker, Spokesperson, Government Department, Government, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, security, UK, memory stick, Home Office
- News items 2008-08-22
- On eve of Olympics, Internet companies agree to code of conduct
- Internet companies have reached agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for doing business in China and other repressive countries, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced yesterday. "I commend Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and other participants for agreeing on the principles of an internet freedom code of conduct,"...
- Tags: Google Inc., Censorship, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Code Of Conduct, Internet, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Green light for hacker's extradition
- Green light for hacker's extraditionUS owned server spaceWhen he hacked into our military's network's, he was trespassing on US owned server space.The EU would cry bloody murder if we had a little pasty 16 yr old hack MI6 and do what this guy did, and we didn't extradite him. book...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Green Light, extradition, hacker
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Green light for hacker's extradition
- The British hacker who broke into thousands of Pentagon and U.S. government computers may soon be extradited to the U.S. Britain's top court, the British House of Lords, refused to block the extradition Wednesday, according to an AP report. U.S. officials say he broke into military networks,...
- Tags: Network, European Court, Hacker, Computer, Intrusion, McKinnon, McKinnnon, Productivity, Network Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- China detains web site defacer spreading earthquake rumors
- The Xinhua news agency is reporting that the web site defacer which I mentioned in a previous post regarding the use of web site defacements as tools for psychological operations, has been located and detained in less than a week after he defaced the Seismic Emergency and Public Center of...
- Tags: China, Web, Xinhua News Agency, Malware, Web Site, Web Site Defacer, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Channel Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Is electronic tracking for students a good idea?
- A pilot program in Texas is testing GPS tracking devices to combat truancy in chronic offenders who might otherwise be sent to detention facilities. According to an article in the New York Times free registration required, not only does the program seem to be working, but also doesn't seem...
- Tags: Student, GPS, Leadership, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Britain makes camera that 'sees' under clothes
- Britain makes camera that 'sees' under clothesBritain is a surveillance society alreadyInteresting article. It says that people fear Britain is becoming a surveillance society.But surely Britain is already a surveillance society.Under the Home Office Voluntary Code of Practice on Data Retention your web activity, e-mail activity and details of phone...
- Tags: 401(k), Retirement plans, camera, surveillance society
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Microsoft preps StartKey: A 'Windows companion' on a USB stick
- Microsoft preps StartKey: A 'Windows companion' on a USB stickRE: Its not an OS on a stick......So it doesn't have stand alone functionality. It will always depend on finding a computer with Windows. Sounds more like a gimmick than a tool. As for KDE, you do know...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Portable Apps, Scandisk, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Windows companion, StartKey, OS-on-a-stick, KDE, Microsoft Corp., desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-03-02
- NJ bans sex offenders from the Internet
- NJ bans sex offenders from the InternetGoing way too far against sex offenders.With the way things are going one would be better off being a murderer than a sex offender (though sometimes they're one and the same). The constraints being placed on sex offenders after they've served their time have...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Internet, sex offender
- Discussion threads 2007-12-28
- FBI aims for world's largest biometrics database
- FBI aims for world's largest biometrics databaseFreedom for Security?If as man would give up freedom for security, that man deserves neither. Ben Franklin. This is a continued outrage, by the powers that be. Pushin further and further into a police state. I will do everything in my power to fight...
- Tags: Federal government, Authentication/Encryption, Vertical industries, information technology, irony, FBI Aims, biometrics database, Revelation 13:17, biometrics, FBI, government
- Discussion threads 2007-12-22
- U.K. phone retailer: 10,000 iPhones could sell in first day
- U.K. phone retailer: 10,000 iPhones could sell in first dayU.K. phone retailer: 10,000 iPhones could sell in first dayJust like the iphone was supposed to sell out in the U.S.? That was a laugh, it was a total failure on Apple's part.RE: U.K. phone retailer: 10,000 iPhones could sell in...
- Tags: Retail, U.K, Apple iPhone, first day, phone retailer, Apple Inc., phone
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- DHS mailing list melts down due to config error
- The Department of Homeland Security created a nice little mini-version of a distributed denial of service attack, due a simple list config error on its Open Source Intelligence Report, The SANS Internet Storm Center reports. a reader replied to the list address with a request for a change and...
- Tags: Mailing List, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, E-mail, Online Communications, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Gauging Microsoft threat to Europe's Linux users
- Gauging Microsoft threat to Europe's Linux usersPatents are the only choice left for M$With the latest resounding EU defeat and the phenomenal growth for Linux & OSS, that's the last choice for M$.Soon M$ will be another $co filling for bankrupcy!RE: Gauging Microsoft threat to Europe's Linux usersRehashing this old...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Linux User, patent
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- Briton held over wireless broadband 'theft'
- Briton held over wireless broadband 'theft'My response to "Signs" was mis-postedFrank,I tried to yell at you for what you posted, but it did not wind up under your post as I thought it would. Look below for the message "Ill-Informed and Narcissistic — posted by ProfessorJim 08/23/07" This was...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Broadband Internet, Free Access, wireless, democracy, Wi-Fi, wireless broadband, network, broadband
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Study: Internet censorship spreading
- Study: Internet censorship spreadingUS once again leading the way ...It surprises anyone that censorship is on the rise? Why?The US Attorney General favors broad censorship laws in the US. The usual suspects are quoted: porn, "terrorists", and online gambling. But combined with the prospect of secret investigations and unsupervised police...
- Tags: INTERNET, Monitors & displays, government, right-wing, censorship, MSN, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2007-07-28
- Google spyware? Fine by me...
- Google spyware? Fine by me...I Hope You're Kidding......with the "poor teacher" bit...!!I won't burst your bubble about google appsI won't burst your bubble about gooogle apps, unless it leads to the demise of your job one day. : )But I would like to pop everyone's bubble about gmail....
- Tags: Social Security, PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Operational accounting, Viruses and worms, Google Search, Google Inc., spyware
- Discussion threads 2007-04-20
- UW law professors say lifetime GPS law unconstitutional
- UW law professors say lifetime GPS law unconstitutionalHave to agree to the unconstitutionalityEither the person has paid their debt to society, or they have not. Once they've completed their incarceration time, and any parole time, and successfully completed rehabilitation, they should no longer have to register for any thing,...
- Tags: GPS, GPS Law
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- Gorbachev: Mr. Gates, tear down this wall!
- On June 12th, 1987, president Ronald Reagan delivered a famous speech at the Brandenburg gate of the Berlin wall, saying "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!". Now the former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
- Tags: General, Microsoft, Gorbachev, wall
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
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