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- Court decision poses serious privacy threat
- A little Fourth Amendment law: Warrants are required when law enforcement wants to violate citizens' reasonable expectations of privacy. The Supreme Court has held, for instance, that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy when driving a car, since you are putting yourself in public view and using public streets,...
- Tags: Privacy, Courts
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- FBI plans new Net-tapping push
- FBI plans new Net-tapping pushNot FBIIt's the Administration thats pushing it, the FBI are just the tool used, so they get the blame. The neocons hide behind the civil servants, blame goes down, power goes up.Will they legalize kidnapping now to make this legal?:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060705/wl_nm/security_italy_usa_dcwhat next?You never really appreciate it until...
- Tags: Federal government, Oath, FBI, affirmation, unreasonable search, probable cause, seizure
- Discussion threads 2006-07-07
- Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approved
- Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approvedHere's wha tI don't get:[i]"All that's required, he said, is that prosecutors claim the surveillance could conceivably be "relevant" to an investigation."[/i]How is that not in direct opposition to the fourth ammendement, which says: [i]"The right of the people to be secure in their...
- Tags: Regulations, USA PATRIOT Act, probable cause, privacy, oath, warrant, administration, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2006-02-10
- NSA eavesdropping: How it might work
- NSA eavesdropping: How it might workNSA process precludes probable causeThe methods most likely used by NSA to spy on internet and voice communications precludes probable cause. It is after the communications have been intercepted that they are then scanned, and only after something has been found in the second phase...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NSA, probable cause
- Discussion threads 2006-02-07
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- Do feds track cell users illegally? Legal groups want to know
- The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the Justice Dept. Tuesday for information regarding the use of cellphones as tracking devices. The Washington Post reports that the ACLU had filed, back in November, a Freedom of Information Act request for documents, memos and guidelines on tracking cellphone users. ...
- Tags: Court, Cell Phone, Law Enforcement, Government, Cellular Phones, Vertical Industries, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killer
- Nokia is to buy out Symbian and set up a new open-source platform with Motorola, Sony Ericsson and NTT DoCoMo, forming a major rival to Google's Android The mobile open-source world suddenly has a very major new player, after it emerged on Tuesday that the Symbian, Series...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Platform, Symbian Inc., David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Nokia, Symbian, cell phones, mobile, mobile OS, open source
- News items 2008-06-24
- Do you snoop?
- Do you snoop?Human naturePersonally, if somebody left a diary at my house I would not read it, I would hide it away so that nobody else could read it, and deliver it back in the first instance.What do people expect to gain from snooping? Control, that's all. It plays to...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, IT-staff, monitor
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Planes, trains, and automobiles
- Planes, trains, and automobilesRE: Planes, trains, and automobilesIt's all about fear and control. Since planes can cover a greater distance AND are easier to control points of entry are limited to a plane and fewer connection points they also offer a higher profile of success. The natural fear of flying...
- Tags: Government, train
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Icahn: I want Yang gone from Yahoo
- Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooThat's grounds for white collar crime.The illegal hiding of important facts from shareholders is basically a criminal act.Let's hope the REAL OWNERS the shareholder get to do what they want, and not what Yang wants.RE: Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooWhile the stockholders...
- Tags: Corporate governance, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Yang, Balmer, shareholder, board, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright cops
- This is so unbelievable, so repugnant to basic principles of privacy and prohibitions against illegal search and seizure that I can only let the news speak for itself. But to put it in context, here is Wikipedia's entry on Canada's version of the Fourth Amendment: ...
- Tags: Security, Copyright Law, Canada, Agreement, NAFTA, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- MB Astrology Rashi Chart (East Indian Style) (exe)
- MB Free Vedic Astrology Rashi Chart East Indian Style Software is a rashi chart software based on Vedic Astrology. This program tells us in detail the accurate astronomical locations of planets at the time of an individual's birth. Using the information that your birth chart gives, Vedic Astrology can forecast...
- Tags: Software, Birth, MysticBoard, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-27
- MB Astrology Rashi Chart (South Indian Style) (exe)
- MB Vedic Astrology Rashi Chart South Indian Style Software is a rashi chart software based on Vedic Astrology. This program tells us in detail the accurate astronomical locations of planets at the time of an individual's birth. Using the information that your birth chart gives, Vedic Astrology can forecast all...
- Tags: Software, Birth, MysticBoard, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-22
- MB Astrology Birth Chart (exe)
- MB Astrology Birth Chart Software is an astrology birth chart generator software based on the principles of western astrology and Vedic astrology. This program tells us in detail the accurate astronomical locations of planets at the time of an individual's birth. Using the information that your birth chart gives, Western...
- Tags: Birth, MysticBoard, MB Astrology Birth Chart Software, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-22
- Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claims
- Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claimsGlass houses...MS knows their code contains infringed upon IP. They aren't going to open a can of worms that would require them to open source their OS under one of the GPL's.Open source has nothing to worry about.Just close you're...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Network technology, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., patent claim, Put Up, IP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- MB Astrology Rashi Chart (North Indian Style) (exe)
- MB Free Vedic Astrology Rashi Chart North Indian Style Software is a rashi chart software based on Vedic Astrology. This program tells us in detail the accurate astronomical locations of planets at the time of an individual's birth. Using the information that your birth chart gives, Vedic Astrology can forecast...
- Tags: Software, Birth, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-21
- Buying from the enemy
- Last week zdnet bloggers Richard Koman and Michael Krigsman independently responded to the news that the FBI has been pursuing a major criminal investigation into the sale of counterfeit IT components - particularly Cisco routers. As part of his report Krigsman...
- Tags: FBI, Federal Government, Government, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Can Icahn bring Microsoft's Yahoo bid back?
- Updated: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced an alternate board of directors for Yahoo in a move that could revive a Microsoft bid. Will Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer bite? As expected Icahn announced his alternate slate, which includes Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Gillmor: Why Google should worry about Live Mesh
- Gillmor: Why Google should worry about Live MeshOh yeah, I can just see the data breaches...in the cloud. :)I agree - the companies that blend will seea better result. Especially the ones that require a disconnected view. It will be fun to see what happens.RE: Gillmor: Why Google...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Desktops, Digital media, Google Documents, Google Inc., Live Mesh, Gillmor, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- 8 tips to avoid being an IT scapegoat
- Failed IT projects happen all the time, often to the amazement of participants who think they're somehow immune to IT problems. In my experience, most failures are caused by shortsightedness, complexity on both business and technical sides, and poor management. Anyhow, there are certain steps a...
- Tags: Project, Information Technology, Project Manager, Strategy, Team Management, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Management, Human Resources, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- 9th Circuit: Feds can search laptops without suspicion
- 9th Circuit: Feds can search laptops without suspicionWhat about external drives and encryption?Do they have the right to search external drives? What if data on the laptop or drive is encrypted?RE: 9th Circuit: Feds can search laptops without suspicionIllegal and it's time we stop allowing the freedoms from illegal search...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, suspicion
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
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