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Spy czar urges extension of warrantless wiretap law

Spy czar urges extension of warrantless wiretap lawI swearSome day there will be a tombstone with a crescent and star over it that will read the following:Here lies the United States. Death by suicide.RE: Spy czar urges extension of warrantless wiretap law‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil...

Tags: Nazi, warrantless wiretap law, wiretap law

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

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BlackBerry the choice of organized crime

Gangs know what encryption is. They are using it in force at the street level, let alone at the very top. Rim's BlackBerries are the ultimate in security for them. Everything is secured and impossible to monitor by police. The Vancouver Sun / Canada.com report interviewed the...

Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Security, Hardware, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-19

File format blues

File format bluesTry to educateWhen I receive a *x file, I usually respond with a note to the sender that the file is unreadable, and would he/she please check the program's default format settings and then re-send as .doc, .xls, etc.As others have noted, most of the time the sender...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Word processors, Microsoft Office, File format blue, WordStar, job

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Review: Skooba Checkthrough Brief helps speed you through airport security

Review: Skooba Checkthrough Brief helps speed you through airport securityILLEGAL PHONE TAPS AND ACTIVATION OF MICROPHONE AS LISTENING DEVICESince you are in the tech field and also have a blog, could your review and investigate this matter over in a continued and systematic manner?? Make it public so that this...

Tags: Blogging, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, BLACK FEMALE, blog, microphone, airport security

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Trafficking in Michael Jackson

Trafficking in Michael JacksonINVESTIGATE ILLEGAL PHONE TAPS AND THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF CYBER FELONSSince you are in the tech field and also have a blog, could your review and investigate this matter over in a continued and systematic manner?? Make it public so that this domestic terrorist, online Thug...

Tags: Blogging, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Trafficking, Michael Jackson, BLACK FEMALE, blog

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Apple plugs dangerous Safari security holes

Apple plugs dangerous Safari security holesMy phone is being illegally tapped by SHay Riley of the Black Female Interr--cial marriage blog. This woman is a vicious Predator.Since you are in the tech field and also have a blog, maybe you can throw some light on the matter and make it...

Tags: Blogging, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, security, Apple Inc., Apple Safari, BLACK FEMALE, blog

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Need a Facebook client for your Android device? Check out Babbler and Bloo

Need a Facebook client for your Android device? Check out Babbler and BlooWIretapping of phoneI have a different issue. Since you are in the tech field and also have a blog, maybe you can throw some light on the matter and make it public so that this domestic terrorist, online...

Tags: Blogging, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, BLACK FEMALE, blog, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Did Jobs and Apple lie about reason for departure?

Did Jobs and Apple lie about reason for departure?Uh huh.We should definitely throw Jobs in prison for possibly affecting the share price in Apple. How dare he hide or not fully disclose the extent of his health problems? I mean, that could cost people money!The SEC should not only demand...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Apple Inc., SEC, health care, microphone, Steve Jobs, job

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

$1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset says

While an appeal is likely in the cards, the motion Jammie Thomas-Rasset's lawyers filed today was a request for new trial PDF or for the judge to alter the jury's "shocking" $1.9 million award. Thomas-Rasset's lawyers argued that (1) the jury's verdict of $80,000 per infringed...

Tags: Lawyer, Jury, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, MediaSentry, Remittitur, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Wiretapping ruling protects carriers - not you

Should companies be punished for letting the government wiretap your phone line? The courts don't think so. US District Court dismissed 46 civil suits filed against several of the major carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon,  for allowing the National Security Agency to wiretap their networks without a court-issued wiretap....

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Carrier, Government, Vertical Industries, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Recording VoIP Calls: Is it Legal?

Recording VoIP Calls: Is it Legal?Nooooo, VOIP is a telephone callThe FCC "First report and Order" regarding CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act clearly puts VOIP within the wiretap statute, which, for the purposes of recording a call, treats VOIP like any other telephone call - with the same...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Federal government, voip call, Pure Digital, phone, Is it Legal, VoIP-calls, VoIP, IS IT

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap Representative

NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap RepresentativeGlad the wiretaps took placeWith the express purpose of preventing future terrorist activities, I'm glad the feds aggressively looked. With the current regime, I fear the future is going to be very different; an "enemy of the state" is now going...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Federal government, Big Government, domestic call, NSA

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

AT

ATComcast does it tooWell, at least a few years ago they did. I had received multiple letters in the mail with very harsh language from Comcast due to one of my roomates downloading from torrent sites and such.Comcast?Good luck with Comcast. I've had both for a good while and...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Peer to peer (P2P), Comcast Corp., RIAA, Internet Service Provider, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

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

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

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 â€" and that...

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

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Judge says Patriot Act allows warrantless phone, email taps

Judge says Patriot Act allows warrantless phone, email tapsKravitz & Administration are both wrongThe Fourth Amendment states:"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported...

Tags: Regulations, warrantless phone, email tap, USA PATRIOT Act, tap, phone, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

Undercover video: Why Apple only takes credit cards for iPhones & the legal questions raised

Undercover video: Why Apple only takes credit cards for iPhones & the legal questions raisedI personally...have nothing wrong with what apple is doing - it seems to be a perfectly valid reason for asking for credit cards as consumers SIMPLY cannot be trusted... (im not too sure how sarcastic i...

Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, video, credit card, credit card number, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., digital signature

Discussion threads 2007-11-02

9th Circuit looks poised to let NSA lawsuits go forward

The Ninth Circuit panel that heard arguments in a pair of lawsuits demanding more information about the NSA's domestic wiretap operations appears unwilling to put a stop to the suits, as the Justice Department and AT&T requested, News.com reports.The government argued that the suits must be dismissed because the judicial...

Tags: Lawsuit, Government, AT&T Corp., Secret, Attorney, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-15

NY police commissioner: 'Internet is the new Afghanistan'

NY police commissioner: 'Internet is the new Afghanistan'I agreeMan this guy is on top of things! Free expression and individual rights are defiantly problems. When people have the ability to share ideas and express them selfs they sometimes come up with ideas that go against the mainstream. What we really...

Tags: Homeland security, censorship, terrorism, Internet, INTERNET IS, tower, 9/11 commission

Discussion threads 2007-08-15