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Security

Submission + - US Senator Wants to Revamp SSN Cards

pilsner.urquell writes: Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican — South Carolina) plans to introduce legislation to replace all current Social Security cards with plastic RFID cards as reported in The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, SC

"The documents used to get a job in America, a Social Security card, is a piece of paper that's easily, fraudulently duplicated," Graham said at the University of South Carolina, where he demonstrated a program employers can use to check the legal status of workers along with Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff.
There is also a You Tube posting.
The Internet

Submission + - CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits

pilsner.urquell writes: Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines may have been violated by persons in the FBI and CIA. A new program, WikiScanner, allows users to track the source of computers used to make changes to Wikipedia.

WikiScanner revealed that CIA computers were used to edit an entry on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A graphic on casualties was edited to add that many figures were estimated and were not broken down by class.
United States

Submission + - Hackers given shot at California voting machines

pilsner.urquell writes: "Sequoia, Hart InterCivic and Diebold have failed to submit voting machines for security review.

WorldNetDaily

Under the state's constitution, [California Secretary of State Debra] Bowen has until Friday, Aug. 3, to certify voting machines for California's February 2008 presidential primary election. California counties have invested millions in acquisition of electronic voting devices and would be hard pressed, both financially and time-wise, to replace equipment within six months.
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Wireless Networking

Submission + - Campgrounds with WiFi

pilsner.urquell writes: Plan to hit the great out doors this summer? More and more campgrounds and RV parks are offering free WiFi to there customers.

Jef Sutherland, vice president of information services for Kampgrounds of America, said that campers not only want to stay in touch with family and friends, but they also want to manage online banking transactions and check in with the office.
Education

Submission + - Egypt's Female Pharaoh mummy found

pilsner.urquell writes: Fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt was found. She is regarded as the earliest known queen regnant in history and only the second woman known to have assumed the throne as "King of Upper and Lower Egypt" after Queen Sobekneferu of the 12th Dynasty.

Quote from the story:

According to US-based Discovery Channel, Egypt's antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass will announce at a media conference in Cairo on Wednesday "the most important find in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since the discovery of Tutankhamun" in 1922.
Google

Submission + - Anonymous GOOGLE.

pilsner.urquell writes: "World Net Daily is running an exclusive story about an anonymous Google front end called Scroogle.

Scroogle filters searches through Brandt's servers before hitting Google. It effectively hides the address of the searcher.

Brandt says he doesn't save the search terms and deletes all his logs every week. Google, on the other hand, saves records on Internet searches for two years.
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Spam

Submission + - Man Described As a Top Spammer Arrested

Junior Samples writes: SEATTLE (AP) — A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail.

Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised "zombie" computers to send out millions upon millions of spam e-mails.

"He's one of the top 10 spammers in the world," said Tim Cranton, a Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company's Worldwide Internet Safety Programs. "He's a huge problem for our customers. This is a very good day."

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/provider article.aspx?feed=AP&Date=20070530&ID=6975132
Spam

Submission + - Spammer Robert Soloway Arrested

grape jelly writes: The AP is reporting that one of the top 10 spammers in the world, Robert Alan Soloway, has been arrested on charges related to his prolific spamming business.
Data Storage

Submission + - What Is Your Favorite Writing Instrument?

CWRUisTakingMyMoney writes: Knowing that Slashdotter-types are generally finicky about the tools they use day in and day out, are you equally picky about what you use for writing? What are your favorite writing instruments: ball-point pens? Felt-tip pens? Mechanical pencils? Hammer and chisel? Something else?
Republicans

Submission + - Digg May Be Trying Change Users Habits.

pilsner.urquell writes: There is a group of stories (webpronews.com, TECH.BLORGE.com and NewsBusters.org ) about Digg.com citing there attempt to curb certain voting habits.

As W Zip wrote, it does appear that Digg is using an algorithm to measure the amount of time between a Digger clicking over to a page and either Digging or burying it. If the algorithm determines that the Digger hasnt spent enough time on the page, then the user could be banned.
Privacy

Submission + - Google to users: All your base are mine!

talledega500 writes: Google apparently isn't being shy about coveting all the data thats fit to encrypt. In this article which contains no shortage of orwellian overtones, The Goo-sters want to rule your life on and offline. Is this the price of being a loyal Google user? Or is this the consequence of an ad-based economic scheme which must continually offer more and more invasive features to justify its existence and relevance?
The Courts

Submission + - Ashcroft Refused to Certify NSA Spy Program

Last Straw writes: "According to UPI, "Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he, Ashcroft and other officials were poised to resign when the White House went ahead with a counter-terrorism program that Ashcroft had refused to approve." The NSA spy program, which the EFF has sued to halt, entails wholesale, warantless searches of all domestic internet and phone traffic by means of secret facilities in major US NOCs. They further allege that current Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, President Bush, and others tried to pressure Ashcroft into certifying it, even when he was in the hospital. In spite of its lack of certification, the spy program continued."
Software

Submission + - N.Y. Times to data mine customers for profit.

pilsner.urquell writes: The Village Voiceis running this story:

Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data Mining.

Barely a year after their reporters won a Pulitzer prize for exposing data mining of ordinary citizens by a government spy agency, New York Times officials had some exciting news for stockholders last week: The Times company plans to do its own data mining of ordinary citizens, in the name of online profits.

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