I’m feeling a bit under the weather today and don’t feel much like writing, but here’s few must read articles from my stack of stuff: Greenspan Says Government ‘Activism’ Hampering U.S. Recovery – Bloomberg News Connecticut bill seeks to unconstitutionally restrict political and religious speech by employers – Washington Examiner ATF Let Hundreds of U.S. […]
Security
DHS Seeks Systems for Covert Body Scans
Somewhere George Orwell is smiling and thinking ‘I warned you’… I’ve always considered Mr. Orwell’s novel 1984 a bit far fetched, but this report from Computerworld makes me wonder if, perhaps, Mr Orwell wasn’t clairvoyant: Documents obtained Tuesday by the Electronic Privacy Information Center suggest that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has signed contracts for […]
Janet Napolitano: Next Step for Body Scanners Could Be Public Transit
I linked to this piece from The Hill as a related item yesterday, but I think it deserves comment, so here we go: The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for U.S. vulnerabilities, making tighter security […]
Priceless: Adam Savage Mythbusts the TSA
A big hat tip to Gizmodo… This is probably the single best indictment of the TSAs “things” mentality I’ve ever seen: Heh, I’m not the least bit surprised the TSA missed those blades… much of what they is a sort of Kabuki theater that’s destined to fail far more often than they’d to like admit. […]
TSA Head: We Don’t Profile
I’ve been debating whether or not to weigh in on the TSA screening controversy for much of the past week, I’ve stayed away from it mainly because I haven’t felt like I’ve had anything other than a vitriolic rant to add to the discussion. Anyway, Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain are pointing out this […]
Palin E-mail Hacker Gets One-year Sentence
David Kernell the 20 year old college student who was convicted of breaking into Sarah Palin’s private e-mail account during the 2008 Presidential campaign has been sentenced to one year in prison: The former college student who guessed his way into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account during the 2008 U.S. presidential election was sentenced to […]
Palin E-mail Hacker Convicted on Two Counts
A federal jury in Knoxville, Tennessee convicted David Kernell, the 22 year old son of Democratic State Representative, on two of four counts related to the intrusion into former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo! Mail account during the 2008 elections today: (Reuters) – A college student who hacked into former Republican vice […]
The Body Scanner Scam
Edward Luttwak, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has a must read op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal… In short Mr. Luttwak lays way waste to the fallacy of body scanners in airport security screening: All males have a body cavity. Females have two body cavities. In prisons, these body […]
Gaffestastic: Napolitano Strikes Again
The hits just keep coming… This time it’s Canadians who are wondering how an idiot like Janet Napolitano got the job of Homeland Security Secretary: A diplomatic skirmish has broken out over suggestions by Janet Napolitano, the U. S. homeland security secretary, that terrorists have routinely entered the United States through Canada, including the perpetrators […]
Caught on Tape: Jane Harman & AIPAC
If even half of what’s alleged in this Congressional Quarterly report is true Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) and former attorney general Alberto Gonzales have a lot explaining to do: Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that […]
What Open Borders Has Wrought
ABC News ran a story last night on the growing problem of kidnapping in Phoenix, Arizona. In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 […]
Malware For Christmas?
The Register is reporting that some versions of Samsung’s SPF-85H 8″ digital photo frame shipped with a CD-ROM contaminated with the W32.Sality.AE virus. The CD contains drivers needed to use the frame as a USB monitor on systems running Windows XP. Amazon.com has posted an advisory for it’s customers: Greetings from Amazon.com. We have recently […]
Microsoft Patches Critical IE Bug
Microsoft has released a special out of cycle update for its Internet Explorer web browser. The update, described in Microsoft’s security bulletin MS08-078, fixes a flaw present in all available versions of the popular browser, including IE5.01, IE6, IE7 and IE8 Beta 2. Computerworld has more on the story here. On a related note Mozilla […]
Julie Amero’s Four Year Nightmare is Finally Over
Alex Eckelberry has the details. After 4 years and 2 months, Julie Amero is now free. You’ll recall that Julie Amero was convicted of 4 felony counts, each count carrying a maximum of 10 years, for exposing school children to pornography. The reality is that Julie, a 40–year old, pregnant substitute teacher, found herself in […]
Oh Happy Day
A few weeks ago I published a short post on the demise of Atrivo (aka Intercage). Today Washington Post technology columnist Brian Krebs brings word that McColo Corp., a Northern California hosting firm that had been identified by the computer security community as home base for machines responsible for coordinating the sending of roughly 75 percent […]