The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply with a broad demand for user data that the company believed was unconstitutional, according to court documents unsealed Thursday. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Washington Post
Several high-profile websites — including Kickstarter, Etsy, Reddit, Mozilla, and Meetup — will display spinning-wheel icons on Wednesday in an attempt to show visitors the Internet slow lanes they say will appear if the U.S. Federal Communications Commission doesn’t pass strong Net neutrality regulations.
(CNN) — Hundreds of children across the United States have been hospitalized with a serious respiratory illness. Scientists say they believe the bug to blame is Enterovirus D68, also known as EV-D68.
Enteroviruses are common, especially in September, but this particular type is not. There have been fewer than 100 cases recorded since it was identified in the 1960s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WASHINGTON (CBS) – Teflon tape, molded plastic explosives and handguns are all concealment tricks that a group of researchers were able to pull off on the Rapiscan Secure 1000 machines previously used at TSA checkpoints and currently used at courthouses, prisons and other government security stops.
Not that your phones and Computers cant be killed already (hello) – this just codifies it. (makes it “legal”) – This will likely be used to shut down protests, and dissent.
Ruben Santamarta of IOActive to provide details at Black Hat conference
*From Last Year’s Conf: Hacker (Barnaby Jack) dies days before he was to reveal how to remotely kill pacemaker patients
Security researcher Barnaby Jack has passed away in San Francisco, only days before a scheduled appearance at a Las Vegas hacker conference where he intended to show how an ordinary pacemaker could be compromised in order to kill a man.
New Rehash of old news… But if you haven’t seen it, its worth remembering! MSM confirms!
• Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis
• Only official US government communications protected
• Agency insists it complies with rules governing privacy
• Read the NSA and Israel’s ‘memorandum of understanding’
London Guardian
Yeah – we all saw Terminator….. Reality may be worse.
Just hours after members of Congress grilled the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about his agency’s mistakes with anthrax and bird flu, another federal health agency provided an update on its mistakes with vials of deadly smallpox virus.
