First They Team Up with NSA Now AT&T wants to FILTER your content. Where are the damn politicians with their stupid laws when you need them? As mentioned last week, AT&T has been testing copyright filtering technology from Vobile called “Video DNA,” which the company claims has “a near-zero false positive rate.” This week theWall [...]
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The Transportation Security Administration touts its programs to ensure security by using undercover operatives to test its airport screeners. In one instance, however, the agency thwarted such a test by alerting screeners across the country that it was under way, even providing descriptions of the undercover agents.
China’s Great Firewall turns its attention to RSS feeds
ATT continues seriously questionable criminal activities; first NSA, now the MPAAAT&T to Help MPAA Filter the Internet?
Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across AmericaSurely the late Stanley Kubrick is somewhere smiling at this one. Forbes.com has a story about a B-52 Bomber that mistakenly flew 6-nuclear tipped cruise missles across several states last week. The 3-hour flight took the plane from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30.
Justice Department Opposes Net Neutrality:I was saddened (though not surprised) to read that the Justice Department opposes net neutrality saying that it could “hamper development of the internet.” While it may seem counter-intuitive to me, they argue that allowing ISPs to provide different levels of service/speed for different content will benefit consumers. They did promise to “continue to monitor and enforce any anticompetitive conduct to ensure a competitive broadband marketplace” — not that anyone was worried about that.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Inside DCSNet, the FBI’s Nationwide Eavesdropping NetworkThe FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Deepwater: Devil in the Details Way to go LMCO / NG / USCG
DHS acknowledges own computer break-ins Repeat after me: Clueless & Incompetent….Anyone really surprised by this? Reminds me of another completely incompetent gov agency I had to work with a while back…
Einstein keeps an eye on agency networksProject Einstein: DHS works to outthink hackers. What am I missing here? Are they kidding?
Find the REAL DIRT on Deepwater here.
When In Doubt, Blame It On Technology
Homeland Security Offers Details on Real ID:C|Net is running an article on the DHS’s requirements for the Real ID system. Thursday members of the Bush administration finally unveiled details of the anticipated national identification program. Millions of Americans will have until 2013 to register for the system, which will (some would argue) constitute a national ID. RFID trackers for the cards are under consideration, as is a cohesive nation-wide design for the card…. If they don’t, come May of next year their residents will see their licenses unable to gain them access to federal buildings and airplanes…. Likewise, the DHS has a Questions and Answers style FAQ available to explain the program to the curious.
You all have been waiting for that annual good laugh.Here it is.
FBI computer project $57 million shortThe true TECHNICALLY and business INCOMPETENTS are once at it again wasting our precious TAX dollars!Can anyone say 1-800-FRAUD-WASTE-ABUSE?
Personal Data of 26.5M Veterans Stolen:
New York Times sues DoD over Domestic Spying:gbobeck writes “Yahoo News is reporting that the New York Times has filed suit against the U.S. Defense Department. The suit is seeking the release of all relevant documents and a list of people targeted by the NSA domestic spying program. As stated in the article: ‘The Times had requested the documents in December under the Freedom of Information Act but sued upon being unsatisfied with the Pentagon’s response that the request was being processed as quickly as possible, according to the six-page suit filed at federal court in New York.’”You must be kidding, right? What the HELL are they smoking in NYC?
RIAA Sues a Child:dniq writes “You may remember the previously posted story about a case against a mother, which was dropped by the RIAA right after her lawyers moved to dismiss the case. Well, guess what? The RIAA has brought a lawsuit against the mother’s daughter – now a 14 year old girl – and moved for appointment of a guardian at litem.”
Bill Diamond: Funnee Foto #1:In what some are calling possibly the worst evacuation in the history of the country, dozens of officers from the Roswell Police Department wait patiently by their patrol cars for gas in Roswell, N.M. on Friday. President Bush is expected to arrive by Air Force One for a photo-op sometime next week.
Man Siphoning Gas Caught Sleeping, Cops Say:Sweet Jesus….
