I'm not an expert, but I do watch The First 48 and the police routinely receive cell tower records of everywhere a suspect has been.

If the pictures aren't taken when the car was clocked, who cares how fast he was going or how long he had to decelerate? They are completely worthless and there is no evidence that his car was the object measured. They show he was on the road at some point. At another time and another section of the road, some object was measured exceeding the speed limit by a different system.

Sounds about right. Encrypted PPTP VPN hasn't worked for years, yet Google keeps including it in new versions and hasn't even bothered assigning the bug.

You should check out their propaganda blog

The TSA did not exist on 9/11. Mohammed al-Qahtani was turned away by immigration after his flight landed in the US. He was chosen for Secondary inspection because he didn't fill out the paperwork properly. He was denied admission for a long list of suspicious activity ($2800 cash, no hotel, no return ticket, multiple stories, etc) in addition to being "creepy." That case really doesn't have much in common with what the TSA is attempting to do. That is also CBP's job. They are tasked with undesirable people out of the United States. When the TSA does their job (keeping weapons, explosives, and incendiaries off airplanes), it does not matter who boards an aircraft.

The AAPD asked numerous questions concerning the case. I explained that apart from not having a return ticket and possibly not having sufficient funds, the subject appeared to be malafide. I further explained to the AAPD that when the subject looked at me, I felt a bone chilling cold effect. The bottom line is, “He gave me the creeps”.

Full Testimony: http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing7/witness_melendez.htm

What I have to wonder though, is did Google lie, and say Google Apps for Government had the FISMA cert, or did they say "Google Apps is FISMA certified", which is true?

Why wonder? It is demonstrated in the attachments. Example:

Google Apps for Government, now with FISMA certification

The representative from the GSA who granted the certification also clearly states in emails that Google Apps for Government is not certified by their department (as you mentioned, it could not be).

Wasn't that clear and present danger?

100 million devices? That is a quarterly number for Windows PCs.

Gawker's hash was salted with a random 2-digit string. The salt was known because it is included in the hash (standard behavior -- you need the salt in order to reproduce the hash when the user enters the password). The problem is a salt isn't really a protection against a brute force or dictionary attack on a single one-way hash. A salt is used to prevent you from using the results of your efforts on one hash on another hash. It's a defense against pre-computed rainbow tables (generating every possible hash), as you need a separate rainbow table for each salt value requiring significantly more space.

In short, in Gawker's case, two people with the password 'password' would have 2 different hashes, but if you ran a dictionary attack on each of them it wouldn't take any time at all to figure out that both passwords are the same. While you have to reproduce the effort twice, that effort is trivial. That is why they were able to point out all the users with simple passwords but not decrypt the entire database. You could still, however, simply brute force any single user in the database if you so choose.

I don't think the group that buys $300 raw denim jeans really intersects with the "mom's basement" group

Doesn't really invalidate his test, since this is a standard technique for people breaking in unwashed raw denim jeans. Presumably he was testing the safety of that practice and not the safety of simply being grimy and never washing your clothes

Really? I just read an article about a sloppy Mossad operation:

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201101/the-dubai-job-mossad-assassination-hamas

Just because the naming convention uses the phrase "LikeWord95" doesn't mean you need the Word 95 source doe to implement it:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/documentformat.openxml.wordprocessing.autospacelikeword95.aspx