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Court: Government Must Reveal Watch-List Status to Constantly Detained Americans

2008-04-25 01:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Eight Americans suing the government over repeated stops at the border can see whether they have been put on the government's terror watch list, a court ruled last week. The court ruled against the government's invocation of national security and the plaintiffs will be the first to learn whether their names are on the 800,000-name list
 
Tags: government, list, court ruled, 000-name list, americans, national security, plaintiffs, names, week
 
 
 
 
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"The Kite Runner" will change how you think about Afghanistan

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2008-04-29 11:16:44 by HASH0x8acb904 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Americans I had a pre-concieved notion of Afghanistan as a poor, backwater, backwards place that welcomed a repressive regime like the Taliban to power and were part of the Muslim world that runs from the Med through to Pakistan. Nothing distinctive and in fact lets face it, I am not sure we humanize the people who live in that part of the...
 
Tags: people, afghan people real, muslim world, world, afghanistan, movie tells, movie, kite runner, american view
 
 
 
 
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Risk and Culture

2008-05-21 05:19:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Americans, the Second National Risk and Culture Study presents empirical evidence of the effect of this dynamic in generating conflict about global warming, school shootings, domestic terrorism, nanotechnology, and the mandatory vaccination of school-age girls against HPV, among other issues. The Study also presents evidence of...
 
Tags: risk, values, cultural values, hold hierarchical, hold, egalitarian values, hold individualist values, diverse values, national risk
 
 
 
 
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The Pros and Cons of LifeLock

2008-06-12 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...Americans were identity-theft victims in 2005. But that includes things like someone stealing your credit card and using it, something that rarely costs you any money and that LifeLock doesn't protect against. New account fraud is much less common, affecting 1.8 million Americans per year, or 0.8 percent of the adult population. The FTC...
 
Tags: credit reports, credit, credit card, fraud alerts permanent, fraud, credit industry, experian credit bureau, lifelock, issue credit
 
 
 
 
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LifeLock and Identity Theft

2008-06-17 06:51:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Americans were identity-theft victims in 2005. But that includes things like someone stealing your credit card and using it, something that rarely costs you any money and that LifeLock doesn't protect against. New account fraud is much less common, affecting 1.8 million Americans per year, or 0.8 percent of the adult population. The FTC...
 
Tags: identity theft, credit reports, credit, identity, credit card, fraud alerts permanent, fraud, credit industry, experian credit bureau
 
 
 
 
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Patrick Smith on Aviation Security

2008-01-11 13:47:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Americans themselves, I suppose that it's less than realistic to expect street protests or airport sit-ins from citizen fliers, and maybe we shouldn't expect too much from a press and media that have had no trouble letting countless other injustices slip to the wayside. And rather than rethink our policies, the best we've come up with is a...
 
Tags: security, actual security, security zealots, security experts, security spectacle, expect street protests, airport security, expect, american public
 
 
 
 
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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Americans. The evidence, published last week in the Archives of General Psychiatry, comes from researchers who began tracking the health of a representative sample of more than 2,700 Americans before September 2001. After the attacks of Sept. 11, the scientists monitored peoples fears of terrorism over the next several years and found that...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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Consumer Overconfidence?

2008-04-07 19:31:05 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...Americans are still confident in their computers perhaps too confident. StopBadware recently commissioned a Zogby poll of internet users feelings about online safety. We found that 88 percent of internet users feel safe when accessing the internet, and 84 percent feel they have the information and tools needed to make good decisions to...
 
Tags: internet users feelings, internet users, internet, online safety, consumer, online, percent, consumer education, security online
 
 
 
 
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Chertoff Misleads on Laptop Searches, Feingold Charges

2008-08-07 20:46:19 by Ryan Singel in Wired Security
 
In an interview with Wired.com, Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff blatantly mischaracterized when border agents can search Americans' laptops, Sen. Russ Feingold charges. The Wisconsin Democrat says Congress needs to step in to protect Americans from intrusive searches of their electronics
 
Tags: americans, protect americans, russ feingold charges, wisconsin democrat, border agents, laptops, congress, intrusive, step
 
 
 
 
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Cyber Jihadist Hacking Teams

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2007-12-17 20:03:29 by HASH0x847073c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Americans, Israelis and Indian hackers always attack our web sites, which are refuting their falsehood and spreading the truth of Islam, the truth that is the only reality. To defend us against such satanic groups , we have to organize teamwork, consists of team of Muslim Hackers. Diamond cuts a diamond, to fight with hackers, we need hackers...