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Submission + - CIA Declassifies the "Family Jewels"

Submitted by on Tuesday June 26, 2007 @03:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: The CIA has recently declassified some records relating to illegal spying, assassination attempts, and other goodies for afternoon reading. These are available from the CIA's FOIA portal
From the article:
Last week, CIA chief Michael Hayden announced the decision to declassify the records, saying the documents were "unflattering but part of CIA history".
The documents detail assassination plots, domestic spying, wiretapping, and kidnapping.
The incidents include:
* the confinement of a Soviet KGB defector, Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko, in the mid-1960s
* attempts to use a suspected Mafia mobster, Johnny Roselli, in a plot to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro
* the wiretapping and surveillance of journalists, including in 1972 columnist Jack Anderson who broke a string of scandals

Submission + - US demands digital biometric data from flyers (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

athloi

on Tuesday June 26, 2007 @03:02PM

athloi writes: "A program being launched at 10 U.S. airports this year will expand existing identification checks for visitors, including requiring 10 digital fingerprints. The border checks could also soon include other biometric data, such as facial and eye retina scans. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20070626/ap_tr_g e/travel_brief_travel_security"

Journal Journal: Electronics kits 8

Journal by nocomment on Thursday March 29, 2007 @03:20PM

My son turns 10 today and he wants an electronics kit for his b-day. Anyone have any good recomendations? I had one when I was little but none of the diagrams worked. I was particlarly dissapointed with the 'lie detector' schematic that pretty much assumed you had just run a mile is liquid copper to work properly.

What are some good kits that are out there now?

Submission + - Tatooine's Double-Sunset a Common Site

Submitted by anthemaniac on Thursday March 29, 2007 @03:12PM

anthemaniac writes: Thirty years ago, Luke Skywalker saw what scientists are just now realizing, that double sunsets are likely common in the universe. Astronomers have long known that binary star systems are common. And models suggested that planets could form in these systems, even though there's a double-tug of gravity on the material that would have to form a planet. Observations from NASA's Spitzer telescope, show that binary systems are just as likely to be surrounded by planet-forming debris disks are are lone stars.

Circuit City and the American Dream 835

Posted by kdawson on Thursday March 29, 2007 @01:35PM from the scrambling-for-less dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Circuit City said yesterday that it had fired 3,400 of its highest-paid sales staff — 8% of its employees — and will replace them with lower-paid workers. Sign On San Diego called this 'a risky strategy to cut costs that goes beyond the layoffs, buyouts and hiring freezes commonly used by struggling companies.' The fired workers have a chance to apply for lower-paying positions after a 10-week wait, the company said. Quoting a Circuit City spokesman: 'This is no reflection on job performance... We deeply regret the negative impact. Retail is extremely competitive, and if we're going to thrive and operate a successful company... we just have to control costs.' So: work hard, become the best in your field, and get fired so they can offer you a new job 10 weeks later at a lower salary."

TJX Is Biggest Data Breach Ever 104

Posted by kdawson on Thursday March 29, 2007 @12:59PM from the millions-and-milliions dept.

jcatcw writes "Jaikumar Vijayan reports for Computerworld that TJX is finally offering more details about the extent of the compromise which, at 45.6M cards, is the biggest ever. He has been following the story since it started. The systems that were broken into processed payment card, checks, and returns for customers of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, and A.J. Wright stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and customers of Winners and HomeSense stores in Canada and T.K. Maxx in the U.K. Customer names and addresses were not included in the stolen data. So far the company has spent about $5 million in connection with the breach. Several lawsuits that have been filed against the company, including a suit by the Arkansas Carpenters Pension Fund, one of its shareholders, for failure to divulge more details about the breach."

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