security

I got an email from my Dell rep, pushing Dell’s new line of checkpoint-friendly laptop bags.  They referenced a Computerworld article on TSA-approved bags.
Yes, folks, it’s the latest idiocy brought to you by your damn-near duly elected government.  So take off your shoes, buy approved bags for your computers, and grab your ankles; it’s time [...]

Remember when the Prevaricator-in-Chief tried to get his buddies at the telcos blanket immunity for the illegal spying they did?  Then the lying, backstabbing thieves in Congress went ahead and approved it?
It’s still in the courts, thanks to the EFF.
I urge you to read this short article to become familiar with this case.  Congress already [...]

The truth got another shot in the arm yesterday, when Ralph Nader came out of the closet with doubts about the 9-11 Commission’s report.  And let’s face it - the 9-11 Commission would claim reversed gravity if it thought it was prudent to explain away the tragedy the US faced seven years ago today.
Independent presidential [...]

According to Paul Joseph Watson at Prison Planet, one of the seminal post 9-11 knee-jerk `security’ responses just proved itself to be a large prevarication.  Or perhaps an excuse.  You decide:
The much vaunted liquid bomb “terror plot” that provoked paranoid airport security measures, an overnight change in baggage procedures, and at one point led to [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases….
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I was just complaining to my wife that there’s nothing to do around here after a [...]

I seem to be having rather a good time at the expense of the TSA lately.  In my defense I have to say that I’m not making this stuff up.  The TSA is just doing me the favor of being a particularly good target in the past few weeks.
The latest brouhaha (boobhaha?) took place at [...]

A TSA employee used sensitive avionics equipment as a ladder while attempting to break into 9 American Airlines planes to test how well they were secured.
Only the best and brightest for us, people. 
All of this horrendous publicity is probably causing great consternation within the TSA.  I want to help them out with a few [...]

Please, if you have a gmail account, go there and permanently enable SSL encryption.
Read about why this is necessary courtesy of Webmonkey.
Of course we smart, security and privacy-savvy emailers already use high security whenever we can.  This is just a remainder because you must’ve momentarily forgotten or something….

People who drive fewer than 15,000 miles per year can save 13-54% on their GMAC insurance premiums under a GMAC Insurance’s new Low-Mileage Discount. All you have to do is opt-in to let OnStar…
This sounds like a really interesting way to lower insurance costs.  Until you think about it for a moment.  You have to [...]

…get your hands on the details of everyone on the list. Well, it appears that the TSA has forgotten its middle name, and failed to protect its own laptop carrying the (unencrypted, of course) details of 33,000 people on the clear list  [Washington Post]
And we are still content to let these buffoons dictate security policy?  [...]