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- Judiciary Committee passes on immunity for telcos
- Judiciary Committee passes on immunity for telcosSomeday......he mused wistfullyThey don't getit do they? Our constitunional rights was violated!!! Its nothing more then a game to all our elected officals. The way to remendy this is reelect a different representive each term so no one is is paid a retirement/insurance/...
- Tags: Robots, Telecom & Utilities, immunity, FISA Court, Judiciary Committee
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- Bush wants FISA controls relaxed, updated for new technology
- As laid out in a May column in the Washington Post, the Bush Administration wants to update FISA -- the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- so that it covers modern technology, eWeek notes.Yes, this is the same FISA law that the Administration flaunted with the NSA warrantless spying...
- Tags: Privacy, Justice, Homeland security
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Bush drops NSA warrantless spying ops
- The Bush administration has given up on the warantless eavesdropping program run by the National Security Agency. From now on, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said, the secret FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court will oversee eavesdropping operations, The Washington Post reports. Under the new plan, the FISA court...
- Tags: Government technology, Homeland security, Intelligence, FISA Court
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Telecom spy suits consolidated in federal court
- Telecom spy suits consolidated in federal courtOnly liers and cheats have something to hideBush's refusal to use the FISA court only proves that his administration is hiding something illegal. Time and time agian, members of the republican party are cheats liers and thieves. The Nixon heritage lives on when the...
- Tags: Telephony, emporer, FISA Court, telecommunications
- Discussion threads 2006-08-11
- Compromise on NSA spying pretty one-sided
- Sen. Arlen Specter's (R-Pa) "compromise" bill PDF with the Bush administration over NSA domestic spying is getting roundly criticized by leading newspapers. The bill would allow the government to request that any lawsuit that attacks the legality of classified surveillance programs be transferred to the secret FISA court system. And...
- Tags: FISA Court
- Blog posts 2006-07-18
- Where is the outrage?
- Finally, now that USA Today has broken the story (NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls), people are beginning to take notice. But is it too little, too late? The first hints of NSA data-mining telephone and internet traffic surfaced last year, when a 'leak' at the...
- Tags: NSA
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
- Legal loophole emerges in NSA spy program
- Legal loophole emerges in NSA spy programMy RIGHT to my life...trumps your "right" to privacy.deal with it.What bothers me the most isthese clauses that say revealing that I'm being spied upon is a criminal offense. And this bullsh*t that their protecting me against foriegn terrorist while the terrorist are killing...
- Tags: Vertical industries, E-mail, Nothing, government, customers privacy, FISA Court
- Discussion threads 2006-05-17
- FAQ: NSA's data mining explained
- FAQ: NSA's data mining explainedLiarsDon't count on your elected officials to do anything about the president breaking laws as he sees fit. All this "we will get tough on him" is a bunch of political posturing bullcr*p. I'm really hoping the Dems win the house and senate just...
- Tags: Government, Databases, data mining, FISA Court, NSA
- Discussion threads 2006-05-12
- Justice knew Bush wiretapping illegal
- The Washington Post has more on the continuing saga of information the public didn't need to know until it embarrassingly reached the light of day: The judges who head up the FISA court that had been responsible for issuing secret warrants were possibly mislead by the National Security...
- Tags: Alberto Gonzales, FISA Court
- Blog posts 2006-02-09
- Bush allies defend NSA surveillance
- Bush allies defend NSA surveillanceIf it is so obvious that they are only intercepting terrorist communicationcommunications, it would take very little time to convince a Judge and get a court order. We need a judge to ok these kinds of things. I do NOT trust Bush and his buddies.Well, this...
- Tags: Osama, NSA, FISA Court, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2006-01-24
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- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...
- Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Qualcomm patent ruled invalid in German Nokia case
- The German Federal Patent Court ruled on Wednesday that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted in a case against the world's top cell phone maker Nokia was invalid. HELSINKI--The German Federal Patent Court ruled on Wednesday that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted in a case against the world's top cell...
- Tags: Patent, Nokia Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Reuters, Nokia, Qhalcom, patents, legal, cellphones
- News items 2008-07-24
- Qualcomm, Nokia deal ends long legal battle
- Qualcomm and Nokia late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. NEW YORK--Qualcomm and Nokia late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. ...
- Tags: Patent, Nokia Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Reuters, Nokia, Qhalcom, patents, legal, cellphones
- News items 2008-07-24
- COPA suffers another blow
- InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools among other institutions that fail to prevent children from "content harmful to minors." If you're asking just what constitutes "harmful to minors", so...
- Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Minor, Regulations, Government, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Judge refuses to reduce 'rogue' admin's bail
- Breaking news: A San Francisco judge just refused to lower Terry Childs' bail from $5 million, the SF Chron reports. Prosecutors said that by rigging the network so that key programs were held in memory so that they would be deleted when the network was shut...
- Tags: Bail, Administrator, Network, Sheriff, Prosecutor, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison
- [ UPDATE: Davidson was found dead, involved in an apparent murder-suicide that involved his wife and 3-year-old daughter. ] Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson...
- Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Davidson, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- COPA is unconstitutional
- The Third Circuit has upheld a lower court decision that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutional, AP reports. In its ruling Tuesday, the federal appeals court concluded that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutionally overly broad and vague. The court also ruled that...
- Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Parental Control, Third Circuit, Regulations, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs
- Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...
- Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- NY gov signs game bill into law
- New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...
- Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-23
- E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering
- Wow, big morning! If anyone has seen Nitesh Dhanjani and Billy Rios's talk on phishing and identity theft, which was presented at the last couple Black Hat conferences, and will be on display again at Black Hat Vegas, you know that the identity theft market is a huge problem. You...
- Tags: Flooz, Currency Service, Identity Theft, Phishing, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
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