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EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretaps

EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretapsCounter: two words"State Secret." The plaintiffs can't prove standing, thus no subject matter jurisdiction, thus dismissed.RE: EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretapsWhats the point? Bush stole the last 2 elections, free elections no longer exist in the US, its all a sham orchestrated...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF Sues NSA, warrantless wiretap, wiretap

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Mukasey says that war powers may allow for warrantless wiretaps

Mukasey says that war powers may allow for warrantless wiretapsFirst & Foremosthas this incursion been a declared war or is it just an invasion? There is your answer. If its just an invasion then all the unlawful acts of wire tapping was done illegally!!!Great PointIllegal invasion and occupation...not a declared...

Tags: invasion, Mukasey

Discussion threads 2007-10-19

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Solera Networks - a different take on management and security

I was contacted recently by an old acquaintence, Alan Hall, formally from Novell and now with Solera Networks. Hmm. That didn't come out right. Alan is someone I've known for a while. I'm not saying he's old. Alan wanted me to hear about a different way to...

Tags: Security, Network, Network Traffic, Analysis, Alan, Solera Networks Technology, Packet Capture, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Judge wants to see legal memos in NSA wiretapping case

A federal judge has ordered the Justice Dept. to turn over documents relating to the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. ACLU and EFF had sought the legal opinions under an FOIA request, while Justice merely submitted summaries, claiming attorney-client privilege. Judge Henry Kennedy said the summaries the department provided were inadequate...

Tags: Judge, Memo, Summary, Richard Koman, Document, U.S. Department Of Justice, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Techies choose Obama - by a landslide

If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...

Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-05

How to read your FBI file

As part of the occasional series Life in post-Constitutional America I'm pleased to offer a brief primer on How to read your FBI file. It isn't as easy as you'd think, since the FBI has failed several times to create a modern data management system - which may not be...

Tags: FBI, File, Mistakes, Federal Government, Government, Data Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-01

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

Will the EMR movement become a political divide

Will the EMR movement become a political divideFYI: Its now EHR, not EMR...the change is to include dental, pyschological and other healthcare services.Electronic Health Records.We are in the middle of deployment strategy planning. The cost of deploying equipment and personell to get this up and running is staggering. ...

Tags: Vertical industries, E-health, HEALTHCARE, Practical Reality, EMR, EMR movement, political divide, divide, government

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'

House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'Bush finally managed to do in the Constitution and Bill of RightsIn one blow, done, gone, end of the representative republic that used to be the United States of America.Long live the Republic of Socialist Horrors I Totalitarianism.God Save the World Now.How exactly is this...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, telecom immunity, government, Shrub Administration

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'

Congressional leaders reached a compromise on a telecom immunity bill and the House passed it handily 293-129, AP reports. Compromise hardly seems like the word it, though. Listen to Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), the lead Republican negotiator, quoted in the Wall Street Journal: ...

Tags: Immunity, Telephony, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-20

Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise

Democrats in Congress have arrived at a compromise on legislation that will allow warrantless wiretaps on U.S. citizens' telephone lines. In March, I covered the threats to privacy from this bill, which was pushed hard by the White House as essential to national security. Today, the Democrats caved in big...

Tags: Phone, Democrat, Telecom & Utilities, Security, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Dems ready to cave on telecom immunity

Democratic leaders are preparing to cave to intense pressure to give telecom companies immunity from spying-related lawsuits, News.com's Anne Broache reports. Pitched as a "compromise" by Republicans, the new version essentially gives the Bush Administration "what it wants," Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU's Washington office, says....

Tags: Court, Immunity, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Quality, Telecommunications, Networking, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-30

What is the U.S. doing about security? Part 2.

Wow that was quick.  No sooner did I get done posting my last article and I see on Wired the following story: Once again, supposedly sensitive information blacked out from a government report turns out to be visible by computer experts armed with the Ctrl+C keys — and that...

Tags: Security, Phone, FBI, CALEA, Federal Government, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Crossing over to the dark side: Consultant pleads guilty to identity theft

Darth Vader: You underestimate the power of the Dark Side. If you will not fight, then you will meet your destiny.  An article on the IOL Technology website discusses a consultant who pleaded guilty on Wednesday to raiding hundreds of thousands of computers.  The article states: John Schiefer,...

Tags: Computer, Productivity, Identity Theft, Online Communications, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Stolen laptops phone home

Stolen laptops phone homeSounds great but...I wonder, can this technology be used to track people's whereabouts without their knowledge? For example, is there or could there be some NSA or other secret group back door whereby a tracing function may be activated via the internet?This type of concern is already...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, BIOS, INTERNET, Workforce management, Notebooks, phone, windows laptop, laptop computer, computer, tracker service, administration, IP address, password

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Patriot Act preventing Google Apps adoption in schools

Patriot Act preventing Google Apps adoption in schoolsOpen Records ActAren't all U.S. public schools under the Open Records Act anyways? I.e., isn't "private communcations" for private and non-U.S. schools only at best?...The unpatriot act is only part of the shift from a Democratic Republic to a Fascist regime. I have...

Tags: Regulations, records request, USA PATRIOT Act, Google Inc., Google Apps adoption, Google Apps

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?

FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?time to open your wallet and pay respectsince the spectrum is sold, you have to bow and pay the usage fee to the MAN.RE: FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?[i]Google didn't win any licenses.[/i]ROTFLMAO!! I...

Tags: Federal government, Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Mhz auction winner, Now-What, Verizon Communications Inc., MHz Auction, Verizon Wireless, spectrum, FCC, usage fee, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

House nixes telecom immunity, votes to investigate abuses

The House just passed a FISA bill without immunity for telecom companies! The White House is pissed off: The White House circulated a statement after the vote calling it a "a significant step backward in defending our country against terrorism" that was...

Tags: White House, Immunity, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you

Here's a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don't build the systems for monitoring people's daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long...

Tags: Monitoring, Terrorism, NSA, Government, Homeland Security, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-03-10