Reuters: International News:
HAVANA (Reuters) - The husband of Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez said he was attacked by government supporters as he waited on Friday to confront state security agents accused of detaining and beating his wife two week (Read More)
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As the federal government readies the third iteration of Einstein, privacy concerns over the intrusion detection system were voiced at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.Philip Reitinger, Department of Homeland Security deputy under (Read More)
Full Disclosure (fulldisclosure) Mailing List:
Posted by security on Nov 20 _______________________________________________________________________ Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:301 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ __________________ (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Standish, Michigan, tells Liz Cheney to sell it up the street: Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney’s national security group want her to know that they’re not falling fo (Read More)
New York Times:
he Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the security guards from the company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide who was involved in deadly Baghdad shootings.
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guardian.co.uk Society:
After the freedom of university and living with her boyfriend, Lucy Tobin is back at her parents' house. But how do you have a grown-up relationship – including a sex life – when Mum and Dad are around? And how do they feel a (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
New injunctions against gangs and action on wheelclampers included in Alan Johnson's crime billNew antisocial behaviour injunctions – dubbed gangbos – aimed at tackling teenage gang members as young as 14 are to be introduced (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
On a walkabout in east London, Nick Griffin is a magnet for feelings of grief as well as angerOn Thursday Nick Griffin paid his first official visit to Barking and Dagenham as the newly declared British National party candida (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster. But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit diplomacy, win the argu (Read More)
CNN:
In Brief: Mozilla has already released a third beta of the upcoming Firefox 3.6 update, bringing a variety of bug fixes and security enhancements. Eye-Fi has updated its photo uploading utility with Selective Share, a new fea (Read More)
USATODAY.com Washington - Top Stories:
The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards ...
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Version 2.0 of my Force-TLS add-on for Firefox was released by the AMO editors on Tuesday, and in incorporates a few important changes: It supports the Strict-Transport-Security header introduced by PayPal, and also has an i (Read More)
wired-top-stories:
Photo: Joe PuglieseShedding Your Identity in the Digital AgeStories From the HuntEvan’s Daily Costume ChangeMedia, From TV to Mags to Blogs, Followed the HuntSocial Networking Sites at Center of Coast-to-Coast Coordinated Sea (Read More)
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David Loukidelis, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, speaking today at The Surveillance Games workshop, has made it quite clear that his office does not want the Winter Games to leave a legacy of s (Read More)
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“We’ve moved from an era of privacy keepers to one of privacy peepers and data-mining reapers who want to turn our information into products…The product is our records, our privacy, our family’s history. We wouldn’t let the g (Read More)
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Some random items of interest:Vigilante militias in Rio are displacing the drug gangs -- favelas under the control of militias has grown from 108 in 2005 to 400 in 2008 (out of 965). Why? They have a better (albeit parasiti (Read More)
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Over at Kent Online we learn that an astute commuter has established through Southeastern Rail's complaints procedure that some of their CCTV cameras are always switched off - not because of technical problems but as a matter (Read More)
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GovInfoSecurity reports on a U.S. Senate hearing about Einstein 3. It is a Bush-era pilot program, continued under Obama, that seeks to have private telecommunications companies route the Internet traffic of civilian governme (Read More)
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Seventy-nine percent of senior IT executives believe growth in collaboration software applications has increased the likelihood of data breaches. (Read More)