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Senate rejects amendment to strip immunity from telecom

2008-02-12 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday defeated an amendment that would take away legal immunity from telecommunications providers that helped the U.S. National Security Agency conduct surveillance on U.S. residents, earning criticism from two civil liberties groups
 
Tags: civil liberties, legal immunity, amendment, providers, criticism, residents, tuesday
 
 
 
 
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Herd immunity and security patching: How much patching is enough?

2008-02-28 10:47:34 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Is it necessary to apply 100 percent of released security patches to 100 percent of vulnerable machines? Is it possible to protect a distributed enterprise network with less than perfect patch application? In my opinion the answers are no and yes, respectively. The concept of âherd immunityâ appliesâin most cases
 
Tags: perfect patch application, herd immunity appliesin, enterprise network, percent, security patches, vulnerable machines, protect, apply, opinion
 
 
 
 
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House passes surveillance bill without immunity

2008-03-14 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would re-authorize U.S. government antiterrorist surveillance programs but would not grant immunity from lawsuits to telecom providers that have participated with surveillance programs in the past
 
Tags: grant immunity, house, telecom providers, surveillance programs, representatives, past, legislation, lawsuits
 
 
 
 
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Senate passes surveillance bill, keeps telecom immunity

2008-07-09 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The U.S. Senate rejects attempts to remove immunity for telecommunications firms from a surveillance bill
 
Tags: surveillance bill, remove immunity, rejects attempts, firms
 
 
 
 
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DMCA Does Not Apply to U.S. Government

2008-08-08 11:32:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...immunity, which the court describes thusly: "The United States, as [a] sovereign, 'is immune from suit save as it consents to be sued . . . and the terms of its consent to be sued in any court define that court's jurisdiction to entertain the suit In the case of copyright law, the US has given up much of its immunity, but the government...
 
Tags: government, dmca, government retains, court, court define, government employee, sovereign, sovereign immunity, immunity
 
 
 
 
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Help EFF Continue the Fight Against Warrantless Wiretapping!

2008-07-10 14:18:03 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...immunity, and we need your help to bring the fight to the next level: http://secure.eff.org/wiretapping Two and a half years ago, EFF sued AT&T on behalf of its customers, seeking to hold the telecom giant responsible for its craven complicity in the White Houses illegal warrantless wiretapping program. Since then, the phone companies and...
 
Tags: eff, eff sued att, fight, warrantless, immunity, retroactive immunity, congress, congress completely, att
 
 
 
 
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Do you listen to your users?

2008-04-04 21:18:17 by Editor in Security x.0
 
...immunity should be removed once ISPs have detected or been notified of the fact that machines on their network are sending out spam or infected cod e. This would give third parties harmed by infected machines the opportunity to recover damages from the ISP responsible. However, in order not to discourage ISPs from monitoring outgoing traffic...
 
Tags: internet, personal internet security, software, content control software, software vendors, users, software liability, club, ilkley computer club
 
 
 
 
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Not a CISSP

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2008-04-18 14:36:41 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
...Immunity booth. Actually, there should have been a prize awarded just for finding the Immunity booth they were subletting another vendors space for a few hours at a time, so one minute theyd be there and the next they were gone I digress. What inevitably happened once I started walking around with this button proudly displayed was that I...
 
Tags: cissp, cissp certification, security, cissp button, network security, information security, security career, career, cissp title
 
 
 
 
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Advocacy group: No free pass for telecom spying

2008-01-24 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
Civil liberties and media reform group Free Press called on the U.S. Congress to reject bills that would give retroactive legal immunity to telecommunication carriers that helped the government monitor phone calls and e-mail after Vice President Dick Cheney pushed for the legislation
 
Tags: retroactive legal immunity, civil liberties, media reform, free press, reject bills, carriers, congress, e-mail, legislation