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- NSA Eavesdropping: Deep inefficiency
- President Bush likes to argue for the NSA's warrant-less eavesdropping by saying "If you're calling al Qaeda, we want to know why." It was a key argument during the State of the Union address. But now NSA sources are admitting that the program is yielding few or no terrorist...
- Tags: warrant-less, NSA
- Blog posts 2006-02-05
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- India's government: At last, we've cracked Blackberry's encryption
- India's government: At last, we've cracked Blackberry's encryptionwhat rights?Each Governments never ending search to control... everything!!the US requires by law that manufactures allow them to snoop...i work for a large multinational manufacture of telecom equipment and... not sure people realize this.. but by law manufactures of equipment used by US...
- Tags: Handhelds, Government, RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- FBI searches Kernell apt., roommates subpoenaed
- The FBI searched the apartment of David Kernell, the son of a Democratic Tennessee state representative, suspected of breaking into Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account. Three of his roommates could testify before a Chattanooga grand jury. And, hey, once you've hacked the governor's...
- Tags: Apartment, FBI, Internet Service Provider, IP, David Kernell, Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Government, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretaps
- The EFF has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency as a follow-up to its stymied suit against AT&T. Five individuals are lead plaintiffs in a suit seeking class action status against President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, AT&T Corp., Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Judge: Probable cause required for location info
- Judge: Probable cause required for location infoPrivacy Not an IssueSince the government wants information from a third party, not the individual, there is no right to privacy. Right to privacy has been over extended already to include public areas where there is not expectation to privacy, and should be...
- Tags: Government, Telecom & Utilities, Right-to-privacy, privacy, Probable Cause, location info
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Sen. to carriers: Why do text messages cost $1,300 per meg?
- Sen. to carriers: Why do text messages cost $1,300 per meg?I don't get it[i]If cell phone users don't like it, call the person, it doesn't cost anything extra. [/i]How does this save me from having to pay for the SMS that some marketer sent me, or the one that was...
- Tags: Cellular phones, carrier
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- The moral hazard of Microsoft-branded PCs
- The moral hazard of Microsoft-branded PCsTrust issueOEMs are loyal to MS (too loyal, says me) because MS has been loyal to them (the stick isn't nearly as big as it once was, thanks to antitrust police worldwide). Keyboards and mice are no threat to the OEM channel, but full-blown...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Corp., PC, OEM
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ring
- Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringI have many waysthere are many ways of dealing with these peoplewithout death being the punishment, they'd wish they were dead.RE: Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringThey should take everyone of them out and hang them. Don't let their neck snap but let them down...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Apple releases iPhone 2.0.2, as usual, sans changelog
- Apple releases iPhone 2.0.2, as usual, sans changelogJust do it!Come on, you bought the iPhone because Brother Steve knows what's cool. And what's good for you. He wants you to update your phone, so just do it! You'll thank him later.The morgue called.They said they found the...
- Tags: Apple Inc., boycott, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Would you give the Feds your computers?
- Would you give the Feds your computers?knee-jerkI completely agree. It's nice to see some sane responses, rather than knee-jerk reactions only.Why should a government entity require a warrant?Why should the library have any desire or need to protect it's users' privacy? I'd bet they have signs at the computer...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Real estate, Advertising & Promotion, warrant, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Would you give the Feds your computers?
- The Frederick News Post reported Sunday that FBI agents seized two computers from one of the Frederick County, Maryland, public libraries this weekend. Darrell Batson, director of Frederick County Public Libraries, said two FBI employees came to the downtown Frederick library either Wednesday or Thursday. The agents...
- Tags: Agent, FBI, Library, Computer, Federal Government, Real Estate, Government, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Gary McKinnon – 'world's most dangerous hacker' – to be extradited
- The Guardian, out of the United Kingdom, is reporting that Gary McKinnon, the "world's most dangerous hacker", will be extradited to the United States to face criminal hacking charges. McKinnon, a 42 year old unemployed systems administrator from north London, allegedly hacked into systems belonging to the US army,...
- Tags: Hacker, Gary McKinnon, Hacking, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- F8: Zuckerberg's keynote takeaways
- I've just finished watching live stream of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote speech at this year's developer conference. Here are a few of the major takeaways, some of which will warrant further analysis at a later date (it's 11pm here in London). by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Facebook, Productivity, Blogging, Internet, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninjaLiberties"Mr. Future President, while you’re at it, could you also do something about all of the civil liberties we’re losing because of the ‘war on terrorism’? That’d be great. Thanks!"that is the point of Cyber Czar - censor what...
- Tags: SECURITY, cyber-security measure, comprehensive cyber-security measure, Obama, cybersecurity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 3)
- Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 3)Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 3)I don't know about the UK but refusing to give someone their mail in the US is actually a fairly serious offense. I think you had some good reasons to do what you did...
- Tags: diary, mailbox
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'
- Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'What is the fascination with bringing up Vista in......just about every blog forum? This blog had nothing to do with Vista yet here you are whining about it. Why?It has to do with eyeballs and marketing.In the search market, Yahoo is number 2...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn
- Discussion threads 2008-07-13
- Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.
- Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.Not that strangeFrom a complete novice point of view, Linux isn't hard at all. If you just want to use the provided applications and not fiddle around/tweak with the settings too much. You will be fine.You still need XP for computergames, that's the geeky angle...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Netbooks, Linux, netbook, Microsoft Windows XP, Foleo
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- OMG! texting is so expensive
- Amid all the talk about AT&T's data plan fees and the cost of buying an unlocked iPhone perhaps the most notable jump is the cost of texting. News.com's Maggie Reardon breaks it down: Since 2005, rates to send and receive text messages on all four major...
- Tags: Text Message, Text Messaging, AT&T Corp., Object Management Group, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Why your text messages are not private
- Why your text messages are not privatesolutionAll new text messaging clients should just use 128 bit encryption by default. Then there would be no legal battles to fight from either side.If text messaging application providers would as a standard use 128 bit encryption for login/password validation and for the...
- Tags: E-mail, Network technology, Google Inc., licence
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
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