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enjoy,

<Karen>

1)

ID cards are of 'limited value'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4659228.stm
ID cards would be of "limited value" against terror and would not
have prevented
the London attacks in July, says the reviewer of anti-terror laws.
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile said he had changed his mind on
identity cards, which he had previously backed.
"I can't think of many terrorist incidents, in fact I can think of
very few...that ID cards would have brought to an earlier end," he told GMTV.

2)
ChoicePoint to Pay $15M for Privacy Violations
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/
Atlanta-based data aggregator ChoicePoint today agreed to pay $15
million to settle charges that it violated federal consumer
protection laws when it allowed criminals to purchase sensitive
financial and personal data on at least 163,000 Americans.

3)
Rewriting history under the dome
By Evan Lehmann, Sun Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan
wiped out references to his broken term-limits
pledge as well as information about his huge
campaign war chest in an independent biography
of the Lowell Democrat on a Web site that bills
itself as the "world's largest encyclopedia,"
The Sun has learned.
The Meehan alterations on Wikipedia.com represent
just two of more than 1,000 changes made by
congressional staffers at the U.S. House of
Representatives in the past six month. Wikipedia
is a global reference that relies on its Internet
users to add credible information to entries on
millions of topics.[...]
In November and December, The Sun has learned,
users of the House's IP address were temporarily
blocked from changing content because of violations
described by the site as a "deliberate attempt to
compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia."
More... http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_3444567

4)

US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
By Adam BrookesBBC Pentagon correspondent
*A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the
US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological
operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.*
Internet cafe in Iraq
The document says information is "critical to military success"
Bloggers beware.

5)
Google's founding principles fall at great firewall of China
John Naughton Sunday January 29, 2006 The Observer
The only thing that was surprising about Google's decision to
self-censor its China-based service was that people were surprised by
it. In the general media coverage, there were many gleeful references
to the company's motto - boasted of in the preface to its IPO
prospectus - of 'Don't Be Evil' (a phrase which, at the time, caused
Wall Street investment bankers to lie down in darkened rooms).
...The Chinese arms of Yahoo and Microsoft had already bent the knee
to the local political overlords - Yahoo by handing over personal
details of a user to the security authorities, Microsoft by
suppressing the blog of a dissenting intellectual.
..It was difficult to decide which was more nauseating - the decision
itself or the attempts by the Googlefolk to rationalise it. The
argument essayed by co-founder Sergey Brin - essentially that some
information is better than none - is simply pathetic. The truth is
that when faced with the first really hard moral choice of their
young lives, the Google boys copped out.

Here's what censorship does
Compare www.google.cn
Google China:
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
Google the rest of the world:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
Very different is what happens when you capitalise the T
http://images.google.cn/images?q=Tiananmen
In the arguement between the censors and the internet, bet
on the internet. The censors may have the money, but they
will always play catchup until they lose.
Search Country - Disable blocking software
Outwit the World's Internet Censors
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/searchcountry.html

6)
Face and fingerprints swiped in Dutch biometric passport crack
A television program claims that the Dutch biometric passport has been
"read remotely and then the security cracked using flaws built into the
system, whereupon all of the biometric data could be read". The Delft
smartcard security specialist Riscure claims to be able to read
passport data, including date of birth, facial image and fingerprint,
from up to 10 meters away "in around two hours".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/30/dutch_biometric_passport_crack/

7)

Here's a way to use Google earth without installing it:
http://flashearth.com

8)

Parents Keep your teens safe when they are on the net!!
Follow the Rules
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/morestuff4.html

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