Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of "cuts" that were available on each operator's computer.

"Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'," Faulk told ABC News.

Warrants are a security device. They protect us against government abuse of power.

First it was Bradford Networks announcing they had raised another 8 million dollars in venture funding to help them break out beyond the edu market. Now comes word that Forescout has raised a like amount  amount of additional capital. This was based upon a 80% growth rate for Forescout.  This is well below the numbers I have seen Ray, Ken and Gordon throw about in interviews and at presentations.   I guess you can spin all you want about how many customers you have or have won, but when it comes to raising cash, you can't play as fast and loose as you do in your marketing.

Also this is a series E round for Forescout and brings their total raise to 44 million dollars.  That makes for a tough number to make work.  They need to roll some hard ways to make that bet pay off.  I was led to understand they just raised 6 million last September.  That makes 14 million in a little under a year.  Can you spell big B-U-R-N. 

The thing about both of these raises is that in the present market, just like the gas you put in your own tank, the gas these NAC vendors are putting in their tank is I am sure quite expensive!

First it was Bradford Networks announcing they had raised another 8 million dollars in venture funding to help them break out beyond the edu market. Now comes word that Forescout has raised a like amount  amount of additional capital. This was based upon a 80% growth rate for Forescout.  This is well below the numbers I have seen Ray, Ken and Gordon throw about in interviews and at presentations.   I guess you can spin all you want about how many customers you have or have won, but when it comes to raising cash, you can't play as fast and loose as you do in your marketing.

Also this is a series E round for Forescout and brings their total raise to 44 million dollars.  That makes for a tough number to make work.  They need to roll some hard ways to make that bet pay off.  I was led to understand they just raised 6 million last September.  That makes 14 million in a little under a year.  Can you spell big B-U-R-N. 

The thing about both of these raises is that in the present market, just like the gas you put in your own tank, the gas these NAC vendors are putting in their tank is I am sure quite expensive!

Before 9/11, airlines and security personnel -- and I use the term "security personnel" loosely -- might have let a nickname or even a maiden name on a ticket slide. No longer. If you have the wrong name on your ticket, you're probably grounded. And there are two reasons for this: security and greed.

The Transportation Security Administration wants to be sure the same person who bought the ticket, and who was screened, is boarding the plane. But when there's an inexact match, the airline can either charge a $100 "change" fee or force you to buy a new ticket. In an industry where every dollar counts, the exact-name rule is the government's gift to cash-starved air carriers.

That's the situation Gordon was confronted with, even when it was obvious that "Jan" and "Janet" were one and the same. There were suggestions that a new ticket might need to be purchased. "We didn't let it get to that," he recalls. Instead, he asked to speak with a supervisor who could finally fix the codes so that the ticket and passport matched up. How did all of this happen in the first place? Turns out Jan Gordon had signed up for a frequent flier account under her informal name, so when she booked an award ticket, it also used her informal -- and inaccurate -- name.

There are two things to get pissed off about here. One, the airlines profiting off a TSA rule. And two, a TSA rule that requires them to ignore what is obvious.