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Submission + - Intelligence Official: Expect Less Privacy (breitbart.com)

Submitted by

Mike

on Sunday November 11, 2007 @04:08PM

Mike writes: "Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, says it is time that people in the United States "changed their definition of privacy". Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Kerr, who also stated that, "Protecting anonymity isn't a fight that can be won. Anyone that's typed in their name on Google understands that." Maybe so, but it sounds to me like just another excuse to allow and justify expanded surveillance of anyone and everyone."

Submission + - Is PayPal "Security Key" token generator u (paypal.com)

Submitted by

Xojo

on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @03:05AM

Xojo writes: "PayPal is just now offering its customers a “Security Key.” They say, “Now, you can get an extra layer of protection every time you log in. . . . a new 6-digit security code is generated every 30 seconds.” Is this the first time a secure token generator has been offered to a more-or-less mass market (PayPal and eBay)? Will this really increase security? Will it be useful and effective?"

Submission + - Looters List by Nation / Business?

Submitted by g8orade on Monday September 24, 2007 @08:14AM

g8orade writes: I just read this story about a new type of solar panel's arrival in the near future. When a posting points to an accelerated disruption in a fundamental industry, it would be interesting to know the relation to and potential interference from taxing agencies or other entrenched interest (in addition to the direct competition).

OLPC vs. Wintel / Apple, seems mostly the direct competition, hardware and OS

Electric car vs. gas car, (gas tax pays for roads, run by the state)

Tax Reform, harder to manipulate the tax code, provide favors to any group

What are the best news sources (world wide, nation state by nation state) to understand whom one is likely to encounter when a given industry will be disrupted, because they are funded by the sale of the disrupted product? (In the case of the solar panels, Oil, Coal, Natural Gas, and what is funded currently by taxing them? Who besides them directly has power based on them that would decline?).

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