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Running Government Finances Like a Bank

2006-08-08 08:56:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...governments need to issue debt to support the financial markets, jump start the economy, and develop infrastructure, etc. Sovereigns with large outstanding debt are seen to be more credit risky and more more susceptible to something going wrong. Thus, the IMF issued guidelines on Public Debt Management (PDM In a nutshell PDM takes...
 
Tags: public debt, public debt management, government, debt, public debt portfolio, government debt, financial, financial markets, issue
 
 
 
 
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Internet Censorship

2008-04-07 05:00:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...governments: "You have no moral right to rule us, nor do you possess any methods of enforcement that we have true reason to fear At the time, many shared Barlow's sentiments. The Internet empowered people. It gave them access to information and couldn't be stopped, blocked or filtered. Give someone access to the Internet, and they have access...
 
Tags: internet censorship, censorship, internet censorship measures, enable internet censorship, internet, prevent anonymous internet, internet access, global internet, net interprets censorship
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...governments as part of his new job with a private American defense consulting firm, Wired.com has learned Weldon, who is currently being investigated by the FBI over alleged corruption during his time in office, visited Libya in March to discuss a possible military deal, according to a letter describing the trip from Weldon to Defense...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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RSA Impressions - 2: Compliance "Megatrends"

2008-04-08 17:47:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...governments (US and European) will be influencing security more in the near future: more laws, more regulation, more enforcement (and that governments will do more to secure their own systems One person proclaimed that 'law enforcement model of security (detect->respond) doesn't work anymore', but said nothing about what comes next, instead,...
 
Tags: security, information security, change security, data change, data, panel, bus107 panel session, pci dss standard, data volume
 
 
 
 
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Vengeance

2008-05-29 13:07:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...governments anywhere in the world. Even as late as 1492, all of North America, sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, New Guinea, and the Pacific islands, and most of Central and South America didn't have states and instead operated under simpler forms of societal organization (chiefdoms, tribes, and bands). Today, though, the whole world map is...
 
Tags: vengeance, cherokee government, government, exact personal vengeance, world map, world, societies, stateless societies, individual
 
 
 
 
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Are we going to need TSA backdoors to encryption

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2008-06-15 09:36:00 by HASH0x8b63d64 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...governments right to search, seize and copy laptops and other electronic devices at our borders. Two groups that don't often find themselves on the same side of issues, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) have filed briefs with the court asking them to strike down a lower courts...
 
Tags: personal data, data, confidential data, government, laptop, court, border laptop, 9th circuit court, border
 
 
 
 
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Are we going to need TSA backdoors to encryption

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2008-06-15 10:36:00 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...governments right to search, seize and copy laptops and other electronic devices at our borders. Two groups that don't often find themselves on the same side of issues, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) have filed briefs with the court asking them to strike down a lower courts...
 
Tags: personal data, data, confidential data, government, laptop, court, border laptop, 9th circuit court, border
 
 
 
 
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Personal Internet Security: follow-up report

2008-07-08 13:05:04 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Governments antipathy they would hold a rapid follow-up inquiry to establish whether their conclusions were sound or whether the Government was right to turn them down, and indeed, given the speed of change on the Internet , whether their recommendations were still timely The written responses broadly endorsed the Committees recommendations,...
 
Tags: report, committees report, initial report, short report, internet, committees follow-up report, personal internet security, technology committee, banks
 
 
 
 
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NAPA Shows How the Government is Using Web 2.0

2008-07-16 20:45:37 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...governments most complex challenges. We were founded in 1967 by James Webb, the NASA administrator who took us to the moon he saw that he could consult the National Academy of Sciences for expert technical advice, but had no counterpart in government for expert management advice. Thats been our mission ever since ScienceLogic: What is the...
 
Tags: web, government, web page, government web, collaboration, mass collaboration, collaboration project seeks, government employees, enhance government transparency
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?