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Change of Address
Kevin Poulsen, my rocking editor at Wired News, made me an offer I couldnt refuse -- co-blogging with him over on the Wired News site. So now Im moving my prose stylings over to a Wired News blog called 27B...
Privatized Registered Traveler On Track
Passengers willing to undergo perpetual government background checks in exchange for the promise of shorter screening lines at the airport will be able to register as soon as late summer in a corporate-run Registered Traveler program set to debut in...
Software Bug Shuts Down Nations Busiest Airport
A software bug in the system designed to keep carry-on bag screeners alert shut down Atlantas Hartsfield-Jackson International airport, the nations busiest airport, on Wednesday, according to CNN. In order to break up the tedium of scanning bags full of...
HostGator Rocks
My blog got smacked hard today with automated comment spam. I found the host of the responsible site and reported the abuse. I also dropped a note to the spammer, who lives in Mexico. He wrote me back saying his...
But some butter is more butter than other butter
This is Animal Farm situated in Orwell, Vermont. Their butter is better than normal capitalist butter: It also has a butter-fat content of 87 percent, significantly higher than other butters made in the United States and the equivalent of the...
TSA Picks Privacy Player
The Transportation Security Administration picked Peter Pietra as their top choice in this years National Privacy League draft. Pietra will be playing QB (a position TSA bureaucrats call "Director of Privacy Policy and Compliance") for the beleaguered TSA, which has...
AT&T Loses A Customer Over NSA Lawsuit
AT&T has lost at least one customer due to the class action lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation accusing the telecom giant of wiretapping the Internet on behalf of the National Security Agency (NSA). That customer? Judge Vaughn Walker,...
Jetsons Video Phone? Deaf Say Yes!
More than 40 years after the Jetsons promised us we would all have videophones, weve arrived at a future where thats a reality -- whether through free internet chat applications, pricey standalone home units, or high-tech corporate video-conferencing rooms. Now...
AT&T *69s EFF
AT&T has responded to the Electronic Frontier Foundations move to have a judge stop the company from allegedly helping the NSA eavesdrop on its customers, and the telecom giant says it wants its secret documents back pronto. In papers filed...
Narus Not in the Know
Elise Ackerman at the San Jose Mercury News has some great follow-up reporting today on ex-AT&T employee-cum-whistleblower Mark Kleins public statement last week, which included allegations that a secret NSA spying room wired into to AT&Ts internet switching station in...
Barbie Says Privacy Is Hard
Daniel Solove has a post today about New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer settling with Datran Media for $1.1 million for allegedly renting the Freepay/Gratis Internet/Freeipods.com email list while KNOWING that the email list was protected by a privacy policy....
Spy Machine Capabilities?
A blogger named bewert over at Daily Kos follows up on allegations made by ex-AT&T employee Mark Klein that AT&T installed equipment at an AT&T Internet switching facility that feeds the NSA a copy of every Internet packet that flowing...
Ex-AT&T Employee on NSA Wiretap Room
An ex-At&T employee has made public a summary of his statement he provided in support of a lawsuit against AT&T, alleging that the telecom giant has built out secret wiretap rooms that funnel internet and phone call data to the...
Spitzer Fighting Spam With 1980s Technology
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been on a crusade against spammers and spyware companies, but its a wonder anyone actually knows about it. I called yesterday asking to get on the press list and Spitzers office told me...
More On Justice and Privacy
The Justice Departments new chief privacy officer, Jane Horvath, has perhaps the most interesting job in D.C. Whether she will get to do it is another question altogether. Im fairly certain that Horvath has no power to subpoena documents (Homeland...
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