Tag Archives: security
U.K citizens…please enable remote desktop
If that last post doesn’t make you wonder if George Orwell only erred in the year he selected for his title, read on…
THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.
The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s [...]
Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush’s domestic spying abuses
Glenn Greenwald, in a Salon.com opinion piece, provides a refutation of the points in the previous Time article. While he doesn’t challenge the underlying premise that the U.S. government is acting in ways detrimental to and incompatible with our Constitution, he does question the conclusion Time reached, that Americans just don’t care.
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Do Americans Care About Big Brother?
Via Time Magazine online:
A quick tally of the record of civil liberties erosion in the United States since 9/11 suggests that the majority of Americans are ready to trade diminished privacy, and protection from search and seizure, in exchange for the promise of increased protection of their physical security. Polling consistently supports that conclusion, and [...]
Further erosions of British liberty
Is the only way to effectively combat terrorism the creation of a police state?
MI5 seeks powers to trawl records in new terror hunt
Millions of commuters could have their private movements around cities secretly monitored under new counter-terrorism powers being sought by the security services.
Records of journeys made by people using smart cards that allow 17 [...]
North Dakota Judge Gets it Wrong
Posted to CircleID by Al Iverson:
…WAY wrong. This is just mind blowing.
Ever been prosecuted for tracking spam? Running a traceroute? Doing a zone transfer? Asking a public internet server for public information that it is configured to provide upon demand?
No? Well, David Ritz has. And amazingly, he lost the case.
Here are just a few of [...]
Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability
For crying out loud. Will companies please either: hire professional network engineers who can build a secure network and understand vulnerabilities and encryption or, stay out of networking until you can afford to/care to.
Despite what should have been an unavoidable lesson in pathetic networking by TJMaxx, companies continue to roll out networks apparently without a [...]
Privacy groups blast new passport tech
Passport cards for Americans who travel to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean will be equipped with technology that allows information on the card to be read from a distance.The technology was approved Monday by the State Department and privacy advocates were quick to criticize the department for not doing more to protect information on [...]
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