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Beware! $4 + a gallon is bringing out the thieves in our communities.

2008-05-31 04:53:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...tanks on our vehicles Neil Cavuto ran a story on Fox's "Cavuto World" today about thieves who are even going so far as to drill into tanks in an effort to steal a vehicle's fuel. Gasoline, Dielsel and even greasy cooking oil is being stolen. That's right - cooking oil I first heard that old cooking oil could be used to run a car on from my...
 
Tags: oil, oil tanks, thieves, fuel, fuel cap, tanks, fuel tanks, fuel thefts, thieves plenty
 
 
 
 
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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
...tanks to Iraq in 2005 -- was typical of these new foreign military sales. But on the more questionable side is the company's plans to work with Rosoboronexport, which is barred from doing business with the U.S. government, and Libya, which is still on the State Department's arms embargo list The Eastern European-Middle East arms-brokering...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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Playing With Homemade Explosives

2007-08-07 17:30:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...tanks, etc. What I learned was that its a lot harder to get things to explode than you think. If any of these terrorist had a background in chemistry or even played with anything dangerous as a kid, they would have realized how silly they were as well I plan on posting about explosives and how they were used in the terrorist attacks tomorrow,...
 
Tags: gas, lawn mowers gas, tank, cars gas tank, time, time delay fuse, terrorist, empty gas, recent terrorist plots
 
 
 
 
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Ex-Congressmans Firm Made Defective Tank Deal With Iraq

2008-07-10 12:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
...tanks," you can thank former Rep. Curt Weldons arms-dealing firm, Defense Solutions, for the new outfits. The company got itself a contract to refurbish Soviet-era tanks for the Iraqi government under a deal with such lopsided terms it likely would have been illegal under U.S. law
 
Tags: refurbish soviet-era tanks, defense solutions, deal, iraqi government, curt weldons, crappy tanks, firm, iraq, law
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...tanks, for example, or anyone who has fraudulently cashed a check, or anyone making bulk purchases of pre-paid cell phones, which could be tied to criminal activities. "If you try to buy more than three cell phones at one time, it will be tracked," he reportedly told the audience Gabbard, the Wal-Mart employee fired for recording reporters'...
 
Tags: agents, intelligence agents, wal-mart, off-duty police officers, officers, wal-mart employee fired, cell-phone calls, phone calls, obtain
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...tanks at JFK International Airport. In fact, before he encountered the might of the JTTF, Defreitas was a vagrant who sold incense on the streets of Queens and spent his spare time checking pay phones for quarters. He had no hope of instigating a terrorist plot of the magnitude of the alleged attack on JFK -- until he received the help of a...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves

2008-05-01 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...tanks and missile targeting systems, dual-use technologies have both military and civilian applications. Dual-use technologies used to be exceptions; even things you'd expect to be dual use, like radar systems and toilets, were designed differently for the military. But today, almost all information technology is dual use. We both use the...
 
Tags: security, bad guys insecure, guys, non-security, security improves, technologies, dual-use technologies, security improvements, agency
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...tanks and missile targeting systems, dual-use technologies have both military and civilian applications. Dual-use technologies used to be exceptions; even things you'd expect to be dual use, like radar systems and toilets, were designed differently for the military. But today, almost all information technology is dual use. We both use the...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...tanks and missile targeting systems, dual-use technologies have both military and civilian applications. Dual-use technologies used to be exceptions; even things you'd expect to be dual use, like radar systems and toilets, were designed differently for the military. But today, almost all information technology is dual use. We both use the...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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The hidden gas tax

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2008-06-27 12:02:59 by HASH0x8b3ae34 in StillSecure, After All These Years