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Analysis of Political Web Hacks

2008-05-09 14:00:47 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...politicians stay away from using hacking as a political weapon is the ease at which it may be used against them at some point in the future. Politicians cant change their public voting record, their former associations or last nights speech (i.e., the past), but their website could be hacked in the future Imagine this scenario: candidate A...
 
Tags: hacks, web site hacks, affect voter opinion, weaker, weaker position, future, analysis, kenneth belva, political weapon
 
 
 
 
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Listening to the evidence

2008-08-08 00:24:33 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...politicians want to use ISP level filtering to provide a child-friendly Internet) did work (up to a point) at Tier 3 (the smallest) ISPs. The up-to-a-point is that unlike previous tests the systems didnt completely wreck the browsing experience by slowing it down. However, the systems blocked only 85-98% of illegal material and similar...
 
Tags: content, isp level content, video games, video, bad content, video content, internet, evidence, child-friendly internet
 
 
 
 
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NY STAR: An accident waiting to happen

2006-03-02 22:37:31 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...politicians name to a tax cut, with extra discrimination making the program harder to kill Update 3/7/2006 see also: The public servants at the Ohio secretary of state insist on treating documents that pass through their hands as public despite embedded SSNs Update 4/11/2006 see also: Broward County (FL
 
Tags: information, store information, income information, personal information, personal financial information, public, public record agency, public information, assessors
 
 
 
 
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U.K. politicians want losing data to be a crime

2008-01-04 00:00:00 by HASH0x84705f8 in Network World on Security
 
A committee of MPs has called for tougher criminal penalties for data security breaches as incidents where the government or contractors have lost people's personal data continue to come to light
 
Tags: data security breaches, personal data continue, tougher criminal penalties, lost people, government, contractors, mps, committee, light
 
 
 
 
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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...politicians who use fear as an excuse to take away our liberties and promote security theater that wastes money and doesn't make us any safer
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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A MUST Read From Rich: "11 Truths We Hate to Admit" About Security

2008-01-31 16:54:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...politicians they lie to us because we ask them to 8. Network security is the result of a mistake, not an industry worth perpetuating 9. Disclosure is dead etc. Read on About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: security, network security, bad guys, admit, rich, industry worth, truths, politicians, dead
 
 
 
 
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U.K. politicians call for cybercrime minister and new laws

2008-03-06 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473a78 in Network World on Security
 
The Conservatives have unveiled proposals on how a future Tory government would tackle online crime, including the creation of a new post of cybersecurity minister
 
Tags: future tory government, tackle online crime, cybersecurity minister, post, conservatives, creation, proposals
 
 
 
 
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Terror on the Internet - Conflict of Interest

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2008-03-18 19:58:23 by HASH0x8471fd8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...politicians around the world call at regular intervals for terrorist websites to be removed from their host sites servers or for search engines to block access to them. They also call for laws that would make posting instructions on how to kill or maim people or destroy property punishable by law. Franco Frattini, the European Commissions...
 
Tags: cyber jihadist, cyber jihadist communities, novice cyber jihadists, jihadists, cyber jihadist forums, cyber jihadist sites, attract cyber jihadists, internet, cyber jihadists
 
 
 
 
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If politicians can imagine sniper fire, don't be surprised what people can imagine on their resumes.

2008-03-26 02:09:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
Why is it that so many people these days are mis-speaking and mis-remembering? Shortly after Hillary Clinton's animated version of coming under sniper fire in Bosnia, she now tells us she "mis-spoke I first read about this story in last Saturday's Washington Post, in an article written by Michael Dobbs. Mr. Dobbs, who visited the Tuzla air base...
 
Tags: sniper, sniper fire, clinton, senator clinton, tuzla air base, air base, dobbs, michael dobbs, real whopper