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- Airport Security Concerns
- Airport Security ConcernsHey Ryan, What's going onHow is life over at eWeek?RE: RE: Airport Security ConcernsWhat can I say, I'm a pretty boy, Ryan. They took my cologne too!...Hear hear! Spoken like a true patriot! ]:)To paraphrase:Those who sacrafice liberty for securty deserve neither.- Ben FranklinRE: Actually, it isn't...
- Tags: Airport Security Concerns, airport security, security, liberty
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- The governmental-communications complex: net neutrality now!
- This isn't about technology George Ou ought to be in marketing: his impassioned apology for Comcast's intrusive "network management" see A rational debate on Comcast traffic management almost makes sense. By dragging the discussion down into the details of cable's technical inadequacies he glosses over the...
- Tags: Telecommunications Company, Liberty, Net Neutrality, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- Police Blotter: Warrantless eavesdropping rejected
- Police Blotter: Warrantless eavesdropping rejectedUpside down...Being the federal government's law enforcement arm, one would think that the Justice department would be concerned with enforcing and abiding the supreme law of the land.the ConstitutionAs it stands the Justice department is clearly an enemy of the Constitution.What would the Founders have expected...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Franklin Quote, liberty, government, essential liberty, Police Blotter
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
- Why McLuhan was right when it comes to attention
- Through his always enriching podcast, I've heard Cory Doctorow give variations on his privacy talk at least five or six times over the last year. The most current iteration is available at Intel's/Josh Bancroft's BitStories. In responding to an audience question, Cory explains exactly why, when it comes...
- Tags: Message, Liberty, Computer, Cory, Productivity, Podcasts, Internet, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- FBI spy powers face new Capitol Hill scrutiny
- FBI spy powers face new Capitol Hill scrutinySecrecy is the enemy of freedomSecret police, secret searches, secret evidence, secret courts, secret prisons. Welcome to the new America, land of the not-so-free and home of the really-not-brave. Where the authorities whisper "terrorist" and American citizens run and hide underneath their beds....
- Tags: Federal government, liberty, Benjamin Franklin, security, FBI, Secrecy
- Discussion threads 2007-07-26
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcasta practical addition George.."But we want to avoid bad RFID implementations like the Dutch passport which according to Mahaffey was extremely simple to break because it had an effective entropy of 30 bits in the encryption key."That was already known about 15 months ago here......
- Tags: Government, Palestine, Roma, Bible, RFID Passport, RFID, Babylon, VeriChip, liberty, passport, security, podcast
- Discussion threads 2006-08-22
- Music vendors versus France
- Music vendors versus FranceJohn - huh?!I'm hoping that you meant to say you don't have a right to HAVE the items you listed - cause dude, once I paid coin for them - they ARE mine, and I DO exercise rights to them.And markets being "carefully-devised systems of rules that...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, property right, food, Constitution, government, liberty
- Discussion threads 2006-03-14
- Bangladesh halts 'corrupting' night cell calls
- Bangladesh halts 'corrupting' night cell callsYou mean..."I doubt the US Government would step in and control these companies , after all they make their money from these companies."You mean parents will actually have to install moral values in their kids instead of having the government do it for them? ...
- Tags: Vertical industries, government, liberty
- Discussion threads 2006-01-17
- Microsoft capitulates to Chinese censors
- Microsoft capitulates to Chinese censorsCapitulates??When in Rome, shoot off Roman candles and when natives rub blue mud into their navels, do the same with solemnity. What works in the US of A may not work elsewhere. . .or has everyone forgotten that we do NOT write the rules for the...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, liberty, American Arrogance, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-09
- Homeland Security flunks cybersecurity prep test
- Homeland Security flunks cybersecurity prep testWhat!?!? How can this be?But I thought they were practicing on Bit TorrentFeds shut down BitTorrent hubBy John Borland, CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: May 25, 2005, 3:10 PM PTHomeland security agents from several divisions served search warrants on 10 people around the...
- Tags: liberty, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, security, homeland security
- Discussion threads 2005-05-26
- Search weapons aim at privacy
- Search weapons aim at privacy"consumers' right to online privacy"?Do we really have a right to online privacy? I mean, has it been established by the legal system? Has the Constitutional right to privacy itself an extension to the Constitution by the courts been extended to the Internet?Carl RapsonWhy 'register for...
- Tags: SECURITY, privacy, online privacy, liberty
- Discussion threads 2004-06-14
- U.S. data mining remains unchecked
- U.S. data mining remains uncheckedNever Mind The Goverernment What About MicrosoftLook Private Business runs data mining operations everyday storing the data off shore where US laws can't touch them.They have all the data they need on you and your family and will use it to their advantage no matter how...
- Tags: Business intelligence, data mining, liberty
- Discussion threads 2004-05-28
- Data-mining for terrorists sparks U.S. privacy fears
- Data-mining for terrorists sparks U.S. privacy fearsFoolish..It's scary that not only are people not outraged by this, many support it.What good is security or the perception thereof if we must give-up our freedom and privacy. We used to honor quotes such as "Give me liberty or give me death". It...
- Tags: American Morality, liberty, data mining
- Discussion threads 2004-05-21
- Ashcroft says surveillance powers should stand
- Ashcroft says surveillance powers should standthe Internet is in no danger of disappearing...I just wish Ashcroft, Bush, and the so-called Patriot Act would disappear.Abuse of Pat ActWhat many people find objectionable is using the pat act to protect the likes of the RIAA. It is this broad expansion of...
- Tags: Ashcroft, liberty
- Discussion threads 2004-01-30
Additional Resources
- Obama won the election - not social media
- Obama won the election - not social mediaSocial Media DID WinSocial media certainly did win last night. The part it played in Barack Obama's win may have been overblown by some, but the social media presences both candidates had played a huge part in communicating the issues to a...
- Tags: Obama, social media
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- A peek inside the bank malware epidemic
- My colleague at Kaspersky Lab Roel Schouwenberg see disclosure has written a very interesting piece on the banker malware landscape, warning that attacks against financial institutions will get much more targeted and sophisticated. Schouwenberg's Attacks on Banks paper takes a close look at how malicious programs targeting...
- Tags: Bank, Financial, Malware, Attack, Schouwenberg, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Financial Accounting, Security, Viruses And Worms, Finance, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Amazon Kindle: It's not for us, Jack
- My grubby hands on the Amazon Kindle at Continental Airlines' Presidents Club Lounge at Newark Liberty International Airport. See Jason's Amazon Kindle Gallery. As I've discussed in this column before, I spend about 4 days a week away from home and about 8...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Arthur C. Clarke, E-books, Wireless LANs, Personal Technology, Wireless, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- President Obama will take away kids cold medicine
- President Obama will take away kids cold medicineWhy regulate something that is only a problem due to irresponsible parentsALL over-the-counter OTC medications have information about who can use it and how much medicine it should get. Every bottle of OTC medication has very visible warning and most specify that...
- Tags: blog author, gov, cold medicine, Obama, prescription, medication
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- 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
- RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuit
- RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuitThis is stupid. I already do this with AnyDVD and mymovies.Its essentially built into my movies if you pay for the anydvd software. On top of that.. you can also rip HD and Blueray.The only thing you cant do directly is burn the...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Standing Up, RealDVD, DVD, lawsuit
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
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