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Another stupid idea from the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity

Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:21 PM
Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security, announced another in a long line of stupid security policies today: The United States said Tuesday that visitors from closely allied countries like Britain and Japan will soon have to register personal
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DOJ security trumped by copy/paste

Monday, May 19, 2008 10:06 PM
Matt Blaze accidentally discovered some arguably sensitive information in a US Justice Department audit of wiretapping expenditures. Blaze is a security wizard, so it should come as no surprise that he is well-versed in the art of breaking secure systems.
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Watchlist purgatory

Sunday, March 23, 2008 8:45 PM
I missed a couple of stories this week on the shoddy, ineffective, and inaccurate compilation of federal "terrorism" watch lists, and the consequences of unfettered government surveillance without appropriate oversight. First, this story details two reports
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The clueless Michael Chertoff speaks

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:54 PM
In 2004, the Department of Homeland "Security" passed a regulation which would have required anyone entering the US from Canada to provide proof of identity and citizenship: either a passport or a drivers' license plus a birth certificate. Congress enacted
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Bush protects the wrong people, and TSA doesn't protect anybody

Saturday, December 29, 2007 4:03 PM
Two (mostly) unrelated stories caught my eye today; both have to do with protecting the wrong interests. First, President Bush has refused to sign a defense spending bill; his reasons were curious : And then Friday, with no warning, a vacationing Bush
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ORNL data theft and me

Sunday, December 09, 2007 10:49 PM
Earlier this week, it was reported that hackers had compromised a database inside Oak Ridge National Laboratory; this database contained personal data on all visitors to ORNL from 1990 through 2004. The names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers,
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Changing definitions

Monday, November 12, 2007 9:48 PM
In 1999, Scott McNealy, the notoriously arrogant and self-absorbed chairman of Sun Microsystems, said , "You have no privacy. Get over it." His profits come first. Your privacy is a remotely distant second. His greed trumps your rights; after all, he
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Punching Monet

Sunday, October 07, 2007 9:29 PM
People are stupid : Intruders, apparently drunk, broke into the Orsay Museum in Paris early today and punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet, Le Pont d'Argenteuil. Here's the wound: In addition to the obvious stupidity
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Idiotic police overreaction, verse 7,319

Monday, August 27, 2007 9:25 PM
Two members of a running club face felony charges in Connecticut after using flour to outline a running path. No, really : Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism
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A brief reprieve from stupid security

Friday, July 20, 2007 11:52 AM
The TSA has finally realized that confiscating lighters is a waste of resources and doesn't improve security: Federal aviation authorities have decided to stop enforcing a two-year-old rule against taking cigarette lighters on airplanes, concluding that
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