China's capital tightens controls on foreign media
(AP) – 5 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h5w6xOIykOeEGD7N4B-V5AE4JKgw?docId=8238d91b916f46019f983c72c06f5465
BEIJING (AP) — Officials in China's capital said Sunday that foreign reporters
must seek government permissio
Forget Google – it's Apple that is turning into the evil empire
You may think you own your iPad or iPhone but in reality an invisible string
links it back to Apple HQ
• John Naughton
• The Observer, Sunday 6 March 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/201
How awesome is this??? rick
http://iqc.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/qcsys2011
The Quantum Cryptography School for Young Students (QCSYS) is an exciting
week-long program offered to students in Grades 10-12. This year the program
will run through August 8-12, 2011. The program is run by the I
Wall Street's secretive 'expert networks'
The trial of Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam on insider-dealing
charges has exposed a little-known world
• Simon Goodley
• guardian.co.uk,Friday 4 March 2011 18.26 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/04/sec
Traders ‘short’ dollar as currency loses attraction
By Peter Garnham in London
Published: March 6 2011 20:10 | Last updated: March 6 2011 20:10
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e050b72e-4823-11e0-b323-00144feab49a.html
Hedge funds and forex dealers are betting record amounts against the dollar,
refle
ChronoPay’s Scareware Diaries
If your Windows PC has been hijacked by fake anti-virus software or “scareware”
anytime in the past few years, chances are good that the attack was made
possible by ChronoPay, Russia’s largest processor of online payments.
Tens of thousands of documents stolen and
March 6, 2011
Sites Like Twitter Absent From Free Speech Pact
By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/technology/07rights.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print
SAN FRANCISCO — When Google, Yahoo and Microsoft signed a code of conduct
intended to protect online free speech and privacy in re
Radio Daze
This week’s parasha introduces a medium for distinguishing truth from
falsehood. On the radio, where actors are hired to read scripts and pretend to
be real people, things aren’t so simple.
By Liel Leibovitz | Feb 11, 2011 7:00 AM | Print | Email | Share
http://www.tabletmag.com/l
Feds want new ways to tap the Web
By: Jennifer Martinez
March 7, 2011 04:32 AM EST
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=8E59FC52-B301-DD35-F0823F631C3A0F4D
When it comes to criminal investigations, federal law enforcement is eager to
get access to the bread crumb trail that suspects leave
How to make Internet more secure?
By: Sen. Susan Collins
March 7, 2011 04:31 AM EST
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=8D04D0B8-C317-34C2-12E4AFC419844EC8
The Internet is vital to virtually every facet of Americans’ daily lives and
essential to the free flow of ideas and information. It
Feds not best guard of cyberspace
By: Rep. Bob Goodlatte
March 7, 2011 04:31 AM EST
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=8D156113-A590-D967-37B04D71AAF221A6
More than 90 percent of the nation’s critical information infrastructure is
operated by the private sector. Protecting cyberspace, ho
Cybersecurity needs complete plan
By: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
March 7, 2011 04:31 AM EST
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=8D587513-F55D-BEB0-A25C03B5B2018326
The Internet has nurtured a remarkable amount of innovation, commerce, freedom
of expression and economic connectivity. But thes
Fox DMCA Takedowns Order Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns
http://torrentfreak.com/fox-dmca-takedowns-demand-google-to-remove-fox-dmca-takedowns-110307/
Sending DMCA takedown notices in bulk has become increasingly fashionable
during recent years but thanks to the database at Chilling Effects,
Obama restarts Guantanamo trials
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
The Associated Press
Monday, March 7, 2011; 3:08 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030702669_pf.html
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama approved Monday the resumption of military
trials for detainees a
The new cyber arms race
Tomorrow's wars will be fought not just with guns, but with the click of a
mouse half a world away that will unleash weaponized software that could take
out everything from the power grid to a chemical plant.
By Mark Clayton
Christian Science Monitor
March 7, 2011
http:
(c/o AJR)
Newswire: Amtrak vs. TSA
TRAINS exclusive: Amtrak police chief bars Transportation Security
Administration from some security operations
By Don Phillips
Published: March 3, 2011
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/p/188504/2059127.aspx
WASHINGTON — In late February, the Transportation
Ebooks: durability is a feature, not a bug
HarperCollins' attempt to ensure ebooks in libraries can only be loaned out 26
times is indefensible
• Cory Doctorow
• guardian.co.uk,Tuesday 8 March 2011 11.41 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/0
Freedom Box gets off the ground
https://lwn.net/Articles/429230/
< -- >
While providing "safe social networking" is one of the aims of the Freedom Box,
it is only part of the picture. The project wants to protect users' data as
well as their communications, including internet traffic, email,
Morgan Stanley Demands Removal of HBGary AnonLeaks Document
March 9, 2011 in Threats and Takedown Notices
A representative of Morgan Stanley las demanded the removal of a document
originally released by the online hacktivist group Anonymous. Morgan Stanley’s
Computer Emergency Response Team (C
Libicki: Stuxnet isn't all it's cracked up to be -- but then neither is
cyberwar, really
Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Thursday, March 3, 2011
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/03/libicki_stuxnet_isnt_all_its_cracked_up_to_be_but_then_neither_is_cyberwar_really
"Cyber security has beco
TARP Police! Step Away From the Bailout Money!
Posted By: Eamon Javers | CNBC Washington, DC Correspondent
CNBC.com
| 09 Mar 2011 | 12:33 PM ET
URL: http://www.cnbc.com/id/41975030/
Early this week, a request for proposal for police car upgrades by the Special
Inspector General of the TARP bank
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-03-08/hacking-of-dupont-j-j-ge-were-google-type-attacks-that-weren-t-disclosed.html
Hacking of DuPont, J&J, GE Were Google-Type Attacks That Weren't Disclosed
By Michael Riley and Sara Forden - Mar 8, 2011
The FBI broke the news to executives at DuPont C
DHS: We Have the Authority to Routinely Strip-Search Air Travelers
The Department of Homeland Security told a federal court that the agency
believes it has the legal authority to strip search every air traveler. The
agency made the claim at oral argument in EPIC's lawsuit to suspend the airport
Rewriting Pension History
Some Big Firms Move to Recognize Gains and Losses in the Years They Occur
By MICHAEL RAPOPORT
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703662804576188843415326976.html#printMode
Some big companies are changing how they account for their pension plans in a
way tha
40 killed in major tsunami after 8.9 Japan quake
By MALCOLM FOSTER, Associated Press Malcolm Foster, Associated Press 6 mins ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_earthquake/print
TOKYO – A massive tsunami spawned by the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded
history slam
Japan Issues Emergency at Nuclear Plant
By YUKA HAYASHI
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703597804576194123030511478.html
TOKYO—The Japanese government issued an official emergency at one of the
country's nuclear plants Friday after a massive earthquake automatically shut
down i
US Trans-Pacific Partnership proposal leaked
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/11/us_tpp_proposal_leaked/
NGO publishes Washington wish-list
By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author
Posted in Law, 11th March 2011 06:49 GMT
The group Knowledge Ecology International has scored a leaked
Sony tweets 'secret' key at heart of PS3 jailbreak case
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/09/playstation_jailbreak_key_tweeted/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author
Posted in Law, 9th February 2011 22:13 GMT
An official Sony Twitter account has leaked the PlayStation 3
TSA revises estimates on using private airport security screeners
By Ed O'Keefe
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 10, 2011; 9:58 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031006039_pf.html
A long-simmering dispute on the use of private security screeners
Judge Rejects RIAA's Attempt To Claim 'Trillions' In Damages From Limewire
from the try-again dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/06521713462/judge-rejects-riaas-attempt-to-claim-trillions-damages-limewire.shtml
The judge in the Limewire case has rejected the record labels' attempt to
Show full URL's for bit.ly and goo.gl in Chrome and Firefox
Mar 11, '11 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: ademsemir
Often I avoid clicking on shortened URLs because I don't know where they will
take me, especially if they are from someone I don't know.
These Chrome extensions for bit.ly and goo.gl
Judge denies request to throw out order seeking WikiLeaks Twitter records
By Kim Zetter, wired.com | Last updated about an hour ago
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/judge-denies-request-to-throw-out-order-seeking-wikileaks-twitter-records.ars
A judge presiding over the US g
TSA to retest airport body scanners for radiation
By Alison Young and Blake Morrison, USA TODAY
Updated 26m ago |
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-03-11-tsa-scans_N.htm#
The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would
retest every full-body X-ray scanner t
Emergency oxygen secretly removed from all U.S. airplane bathrooms
http://www.king5.com/news/national/Oxygen-masks-secretly-removed-from-all-US-airplane-bathrooms-117829748.html
Emergency oxygen secretly removed from all U.S. airplane bathrooms
by KING 5 News
KING5.com
Posted on March 11, 2011
(http://www.zerohedge.com)
Hacker Collective Anonymous To Release Documents Proving Bank Of America
Committed Fraud This Monday
By Tyler Durden
Created 03/11/2011 - 22:03
After Julian Assange crashed and burned in his threat to release documents that
expose fraud at Bank of America, many tho
March 12, 2011
Explosion Rocks Japan Nuclear Plant After Quake
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/world/asia/13nuclear.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
By MARTIN FACKLER AND MATTHEW L. WALD
TOKYO — An explosion at a crippled nuclear power plant in northern Japan on
Saturday blew the roof off one b
Partial meltdown likely under way at power plant, Japanese official says
By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 12, 2011; 10:33 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/12/AR2011031205493_pf.html
A partial meltdown is likely under way at one nuclear
Watch "Tron: The Next Day," a short film about what happened between Tron and
Tron Legacy
Cyriaque Lamar — Tron: The Next Day (Flynn Lives Revealed) is a 10-minute short
that fills in the backstory between the first and second films. It recently
appeared on YouTube and contains unused footage f
http://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors/
I know this is a fairly full on statement from someone posting his very first
blog. It will also be far and away the most well written, intelligent post I
ever make (I hope!) It also means I am not
Part of me faults the passengers for doing this in the "New Normal" (idiotic as
that concept of a "New Normal" is) but the bigger part of me is this
representing another case of Americans fearing that which is new or unfamiliar
to them. --- rick
Pilots lock down cockpit over praying passeng
March 10, 2011, 5:00PM EST
Hacker vs. Hacker
The hacking and public humiliation of cyber-security firm HBGary isn't just
entertaining geek theater. It's a cautionary tale for businesses everywhere
By Michael Riley and Brad Stone
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/11_12/b4220066
Debit card spending limit? Banks consider a $50 cap
Blake Ellis, staff reporter, On Thursday March 10, 2011, 9:34 pm EST
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Debit-card-spending-limit-cnnm-3728211539.html?x=0
Declined! Your debit card may soon be denied for purchases greater than $100 --
o
(site and many mirrors are slow in responding.)
Source:
http://bankofamericasuck.com/
specifically --
http://bankofamericasuck.com/03/13/ex-bank-of-ameica-employee-can-prove-mortgage-fraud-part-1
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Bank of America Anonymous Email Leak
http://publicintelligence.net/bank-of-america-anonymous-email-leak/
___
Infowarrior mailing list
Infowarrior@attrition.org
https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/infowarrior
(Linke to Report: http://stateofthemedia.org/)
http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/the_news_industry_is_no_longer.php
Behind the News, The News Frontier — March 14, 2011 01:07 AM
“The News Industry Is No Longer In Control Of Its Destiny”
And other findings of the Pew State of the Media Rep
Twitter Decides To Kill Its Ecosystem: How Not To Run A Modern Company
from the big-mistake dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110313/17021713476/twitter-decides-to-kill-its-ecosystem-how-not-to-run-modern-company.shtml
This is really unfortunate news. It really wasn't that long ago that we
Hollywood tale for replacing DVD a cliffhanger
by Greg Sandoval
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20042731-261.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
In a bid to sweeten the consumer appeal of a new digital format that could
succeed the DVD, some at the major film studios want to prevent DVD
The Dow's Plunge: Should You Be Worried?
By BRETT ARENDS
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703726904576192953602816200.html
Ouch. It was the biggest drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since August.
Markets tumbled yesterday, while fears surged—about jobs, Spain and Saudi
Arabia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365806/Glossy-Jihad-Cosmo-combines-beauty-tips-suicide-bombing-advice.html
Glossy 'Jihad Cosmo' combines beauty tips with suicide bombing advice
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:32 AM on 13th March 2011
Al-Qaeda has launched a women's magazin
• TECHNOLOGY
• MARCH 14, 2011, 9:31 A.M. ET
Rush to Fix Quake-Damaged Undersea Cables
By OWEN FLETCHER And JURO OSAWA
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576199952421569210.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLTopStories
BEIJING—Asia's major telecom operators scrambled Monday
In cyberspace, a war over names
By: Michelle Quinn
March 12, 2011 07:44 PM EDT
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1A342EA1-0870-4367-825D-81C9C6408CA4
SAN FRANCISCO — For those who value the free flow of information on the
Internet, there’s only one thing more frightening than having th
(as if the quake, tsunami, and nuclear issues aren't enough, right? rick)
Blofeld's Japanese volcano base erupts
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/14/shinmoedake_eruption/
By Lester Haines • Get more from this author
Posted in Science, 14th March 2011 15:49 GMT
The Japanese are certai
Japan Faces Prospect of Nuclear Catastrophe as Workers Leave Plant
By HIROKO TABUCHI, KEITH BRADSHER and MATTHEW L. WALD
This article is by Hiroko Tabuchi, Keith Bradsher and Matthew L. Wald.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/asia/15nuclear.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
TOKYO — Japan faced th
Japan's Fukushima six on seven-point scale of gravity - watchdog
The accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant now rates six on seven-point
international scale of gravity for nuclear accidents, Andre-Claude Lacoste,
head of France's Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN), said on Tuesday. The 1979
ac
March 14, 2011 8:50 PM PDT
Obama admin calls for more ICANN accountability
by Declan McCullagh
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20043160-281.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The Obama administration today called for improvements in the mechanisms used
to oversee Internet domain nam
Japan earthquake: disaster by numbers
The earthquake and tsunami that has struck Japan has left a trial of
devastation and sparked fears of a nuclear disaster. Here is a look at the
disaster by numbers as of Tuesday lunchtime.
By Andrew Hough, and Martin Evans 12:45PM GMT 15 Mar 2011
http://ww
Adobe Flash suffers from 'critical' new zero-day hack
updated 07:25 am EDT, Tue March 15, 2011 Patch inbound for affected platform,
eventually
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/03/15/patch.inbound.for.affected.platform.eventually/
Adobe has published another security advisory after the
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/15/sxsw-2011-internet-online/print
SXSW 2011: The internet is over
Oliver Burkeman went to Texas to the South by Southwest festival of film, music
and technology, in search of the next big idea. After three days he found it:
the boundary between 'r
(Amen!! --- rick)
Former NSA, CIA Chief: Declassify Cyber Vulnerabilities
• By Kevin Poulsen
• March 14, 2011 |
• 6:48 pm |
• Categories: Sunshine and Secrecy
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/hayden-cyber/
The former head of America’s most powerful
March 14, 2011
As Library E-Books Live Long, Publisher Sets Expiration Date
By JULIE BOSMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/business/media/15libraries.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
Imagine the perfect library book. Its pages don’t tear. Its spine is
unbreakable. It can be checked out from h
Candidates emerge to replace Mueller at FBI
By Jerry Markon, Tuesday, March 15, 7:08 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/candidates-emerge-to-replace-mueller-at-fbi/2011/03/14/ABgHeaW_print.html
The jockeying over who will replace FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has
begun, with FBI age
Almost 15 Million Alzheimer's And Dementia Caregivers In USA Today
15 Mar 2011
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/219193.php
There are nearly 15 million people caring for individuals with Alzheimer's
disease and dementia in the USA, the Alzheimer's Association has revealed
today. The
March 15, 2011 10:51 AM PDT
White House wants new copyright law crackdown
by Declan McCullagh
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20043421-281.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law,
including making "illegal streaming" o
Original URL:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/15/apple_ios_throttles_web_apps_on_home_screen/
Apple handcuffs 'open' web apps on iPhone home screen
Three bugs? Or three-headed App Store conspiracy?
By Cade Metz in San Francisco
Posted in Developer, 15th March 2011 01:26 GMT
Exclusive Ap
TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests
• By David Kravets
• March 15, 2011 |
• 6:10 pm |
• Categories: 'nude' airport body scanners, Surveillance
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/tsa-radiation-test-bungling/
The Transportation Se
U.S. military blocks websites to help Japan recovery efforts
By Mark Preston and Adam Levine, CNN
March 16, 2011 6:09 a.m. EDT
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/15/us.military.websites/index.html
Several websites, including YouTube, have been blocked from U.S. military
computers in Japan to free b
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With hacking, music can take control of your car
Remote-controlled car hacking is a real possibility, researchers say
by Robert McMillan
13 comments | 46I like it!
Tags: security
http://www.itworld.com/security/139794/with-hacking-music-can-take-control-your-car
Ma
Fed instructs teachers to Facebook creep students
By Neil Munro - The Daily Caller 1:58 AM 03/16/2011
http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/16/fed-instructs-teachers-to-facebook-creep-students/print/
Education Department officials are threatening school principals with lawsuits
if they fail to monit
(But then again, knowing what passes as high-tech security these days, might
this really be considered reality television? rick)
http://www.fox.com/breakingin/
BREAKING IN is an offbeat half-hour workplace comedy about a high-tech security
firm that takes extreme - and often questionable
Congress asks to review DoD and NSA contracts with HBGary
By Kim Zetter, wired.com | Last updated about an hour ago
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/congress-asks-to-review-dod-and-nsa-contracts-with-hbgary.ars
Anonymous’s recent exposure of a federal contractor’s plan to t
Blackberry Users Advised to Disable JavaScript
RIM's Blackberry OS was exploited at Pwn2own, leaving users potentially at risk.
http://www.internetnews.com/mobility/article.php/3928416
March 16, 2011
By Michelle Megna
A team of security researchers successfully exploited the Blackberry mobile
p
Hacker Spies Hit Security Firm RSA
• By Kim Zetter
• March 17, 2011 |
• 6:40 pm |
• Categories: Breaches, Hacks and Cracks, RSA Conference
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/rsa-hacked/
Top security firm RSA Security revealed on Thursday that it’s bee
Commentary: The New York Times Paywall Is … Weird
• By Felix Salmon
• March 17, 2011 |
• 7:34 pm |
• Categories: Commerce, Mobile Internet
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/nyt-paywall-is-weird/all/1
The NYT paywall has arrived: it’s going up in
CCIA: copyright wiretaps are Hollywood's "PATRIOT Act"
By Nate Anderson | Last updated a day ago
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/ccia-copyright-wiretaps-are-hollywoods-patriot-act.ars
Yesterday's White House wish list of new intellectual property laws focused on
things like coun
http://attrition.org/news/content/11-03-19.001.html
Crowd Sourcing the New Errata Section, 'Prediction Fail'
Sat Mar 19 20:05:35 CDT 2011
errata[at]attrition.org
One of the 'to-do' list items for Errata is the creation of a 'Prediction Fail'
page. The idea is to catalog the amusing (sad?) insta
Japan reluctant to disclose footage of power plant taken by U.S. drone
19 March 2011
By Gary Mortimer
http://www.suasnews.com/2011/03/4703/japan-reluctant-to-disclose-footage-of-power-plant-taken-by-u-s-drone/
The Manichai Daily news reports that the Japanese government has in its
possession vi
DHS Partners with NCAA to Promote Suspicious Activity Reporting
March 20, 2011 in Featured
http://publicintelligence.net/dhs-partners-with-ncaa-to-promote-suspicious-activity-reporting/
Secretary Napolitano Announces “If You See Something, Say Something™” Campaign
Partnership with NCAA (dhs.gov
Google patches Flash bug before Adobe
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author
Posted in Enterprise Security, 18th March 2011 23:33 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/google_chrome_update/
Google has already released an update for its Chrome browser that fixes a
cri
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-20/at-t-agrees-to-buy-deutsche-telekom-s-t-mobile-usa-unit-for-39-billion.html
AT&T Agrees to Buy Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA Unit for $39 Billion
By Mike Harrison - Mar 20, 2011 2:19 PM ET Sun Mar 20 18:19:32 GMT 2011
AT&T Inc. (T) said it entered a de
Pentagon to Help Internet Providers Get Military Cyber Tools
March 16, 2011, 6:45 PM EDT
By Gopal Ratnam
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-16/pentagon-to-help-internet-providers-get-military-cyber-tools.html
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Defense Department plans to start a pilot
program
(once again, the idiocy that is US classification policy comes into focus. ---
rick)
Court Orders Unclassified Docs Sealed
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2011/03/docs_sealed.html
Prosecutors in the case of the former National Security Agency official Thomas
A. Drake, who is suspected of lea
BBC World Service to sign funding deal with US state department
Low six-figure investment will aim to help combat censorship of TV and internet
services in countries including Iran and China
• Ben Dowell
• guardian.co.uk,Sunday 20 March 2011 19.17 GMT
• Article hi
Google accuses China of interfering with Gmail email system
Chinese government's crackdown on activists thought to be behind what Google
calls 'politically motivated attacks'
• Dominic Rushe in New York
• guardian.co.uk,Sunday 20 March 2011 20.50 GMT
• Article his
Sprint teams up with Google Voice
Posted by Seth Weintraub
March 21, 2011 7:55 AM
While it isn't quite the AT&T-T-Mobile blockbuster, the move has broad
implications on the mobile communications industry.
Google (GOOG) and Sprint (S) just announced that the two companies would soon
be integrat
(Transparency, 3 years after the fact. But still, helpful. rick)
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fed-banks-the-discount-window-2011-3
For The First Time Ever The Fed Must Reveal Which Big Banks Took Emergency
Loans From The Discount Window
Courtney Comstock| Mar. 21, 2011, 1
Fed Must Release Bank Loan Data as High Court Rejects Appeal
By Greg Stohr and Bob Ivry - Mar 21, 2011
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-03-21/fed-must-release-bank-loan-data-as-high-court-rejects-appeal.html
The Federal Reserve must disclose details of emergency loans it made to banks
i
Pirate Bay User Database Compromised and Exploited, Again
• Ernesto
• 20/03/2011
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-user-database-compromised-and-exploited-again-110320/
In recent weeks many Pirate Bay users have received an email, allegedly sent by
The Pirate Bay team, encoura
March 18, 2011
"An Internal Brain Drain"
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2011/03/an-internal-bra.html
The United States is suffering from a serious scientific and technological
workforce problem that harms innovation, according to Norman Matloff of the
University of California-Davis
South Park’s Matt Stone On MPAA’s Power Abuse and Censorship
• Ernesto
• 21/03/2011
Aside from their anti-piracy efforts, the MPAA is famous for their film ratings
system in the United States. Through their ratings the MPAA can hurt the
potential profitability of a film, and the
Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Challenging NSA Surveillance of Americans
• By David Kravets
• March 21, 2011 |
• 3:25 pm |
• Categories: Surveillance, privacy
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/warrantless-eavesdropping/
It’s easy to forget these days,
The Art of Naming Operations
GREGORY C. SIEMINSKI
>From Parameters, Autumn 1995, pp. 81-98.
Shortly after word spread among key military leaders that President Bush had
ordered the invasion of Panama, Lieutenant General Thomas Kelly, Operations
Officer on the Joint Staff, received a call from
(c/o JH)
RSA hack – a lesson in how not to handle a PR disaster!
Eskenzi’s Blog
Eskenzi’s view on IT Security and PR
By yvonneeskenzi
I’ve been doing PR for the IT security industry for 16 years and there
has never been such a major breach to an IT security vendor, as the
one to hit RSA on Fri
March 21, 2011
FBI center takes on $1 billion ID project
By Eric Eyre
http://wvgazette.com/News/Business/201103211014
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Clarksburg FBI complex is taking part in a $1 billion
project that will enable law enforcement agencies to identify criminals and
terrorists by physical
(just goes to show you that you don't always need "social media" or digital
networks to be connected, contrary to popular opinion.people were
connecting and exchanging information LOOONG before the Internet and electronic
media came into being. -- rick)
In Ishinomaki, news comes old-fashion
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/scada_exploits_released/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
The Register
22nd March 2011
The security of software used to control hardware at nuclear plants, gas
refineries and other industrial settings is coming under renewed scrutiny as
researchers release
Google’s $125 Million Digital Library Settlement Rejected
By Bob Van Voris and Susan Decker - Mar 22, 2011
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-03-22/google-s-125-million-digital-library-settlement-is-rejected-by-u-s-judge.html
Google Inc. (GOOG)’s $125 million settlement with publishers and
Copyright troll Righthaven achieves spectacular "fair use" loss
By Nate Anderson | Last updated March 22, 2011 3:05 PM
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/copyright-troll-righthaven-achieves-spectacular-fair-use-loss.ars
Whoops—in its bid to sue hundreds of bloggers, commentor
Senators to Apple: Pull iPhone DUI checkpoint alert apps
By Gregg Keizer
March 22, 2011 03:56 PM ET
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214928/Senators_to_Apple_Pull_iPhone_DUI_checkpoint_alert_apps?taxonomyId=13&pageNumber=2
PhantomALERT offers apps for the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry; F
MARCH 22, 2011, 5:31 P.M. ET
NY Times expands limits on free search traffic
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP70af0898c1a1443696b1fd5ecbb3b8cb.html
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The New York Times will try to make it more difficult to use
Internet search engines to avoid paying for frequent visits
A Dysfunctional Role of High Frequency Trading in Electronic Markets
Robert A. Jarrow
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Philip Protter
March 8, 2011
Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 08-2011
Abstract:
This paper shows that high frequency
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