I'm tired of hearing the term "Law Enforcement"... What happened to "Keeping the Peace"?
why must even the smallest infraction be prosecuted to the "Nth" degree of the letter of the law?
This only breeds hate and discontent.
Defuse! don't escalate the situation!
Too many "Barney Fife's" running around,but instead of 1 bullet, its 17 rounds in a Glock...

and too,too many police agencies, I can't even think of all the three letter acronyms there are ...
everybody's got their own police force, and its bringing out all the amateurs, (e.g. - Tesla dust-up)
so lets go back to "Peace Officers", and maybe it will change the mindset.

collusion: secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, esp. in order to cheat or deceive others...

And that's what we have these days between the government and our so-called Public utilities,(notice I don't say OUR government,it isn't ours anymore)

Back when it was the "Bell System", J. Edgar would just "drop a dime" and get any info He needed from Ma Bell, ....on a case by case basis.
The government broke up the Bell System,In the name of "competition", SBC went around and bought all the Baby Bells, and put them back together under 1 roof,
Now, the NSA and SBC/ATT are in bed together... and they are giving the NSA free reign to the whole system.
We need to put pressure on ATT ... no matter what ISP/phone company you may choose to use, it still goes through ATT's backbone some where in its transit to the other end of the line....
the question is who are ATT's major stockholders? and how can we pressure them?

I've had same issues when Apple items are on any mixed OS network, constant connectivity issues for all, always suspected the shiny red (white) devices as the culprit ,never could prove it. this pretty much cinches for me, apparently, their network stack is almost as "F" up as M$'s is....
Doesn't anyone follow the RFC's? Just leave sh*t alone! they gotta make it proprietary... guess to keep the investors happy...

here's my list,available at ANY hardware store:
1/4 in.Black Steel Nipple
1/4 in. Galvanized Malleable Iron Cap
1/16 in. Black Oxide Drill Bit
2 x 4 x 8 Premium Kiln Dried Whitewood Stud
1 ea tenpenny nail
3 rubber bands
its called a zipgun.... its only 1 shot, but how many shots does it take?
it won't make it through to the plane,unless you are a 12 year old who can walk right through the checkpoint.....
that's if your target is getting on a plane................
who needs a 3D printer! :-)

So, what's the EFF using for email these days?
paper and pencil via carrier pigeon?
just curious..... :)

It all boils down to this, the policies,actions and business dealings of our government and corporations in foreign countries over the last 50 years has pissed off alot of people. These deeds were done in our name,which has caused these people to retaliate against us, the people.
This has created an environment where the government feels threatened, and starts programs like this and others...started around ....~1948.........(get those commies,they stole our secret)
time to ....?
fire them all ?
to be replaced by...?

Sorry, don't have that answer....

1st: IANAL, but need one to interpret this,
We all know the NSA is splitting and filtering the backbone in the CO's courtesy of the Patriot Act,
but my recent browsing of this article: http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/docs/ccmanual.pdf
Does this suggest that the NSA is in violation of the CFAA?
and did the US attorneys involved with Aaron Swartz's prosecution ever read this ? or the Bill of Rights?

NSA, TSA, DHS, DEA, ICE, all totally out of control, individual fiefdoms, all with political aspirations...
just my 2 cents, same as my paycheck.

You are my "internet newspaper"!
Gannet's got nothing.
And isc.incidents.org, my 1st 2 stops everyday.....
Can't say how long its been, 1999?
keep it alive!

do these units meet EPA and Federal Noise limits?
Is there radar signature large enough so that FAA radar can see them?
these are the questions that have legal "teeth",that can be used against their use by civilian authorities.
just another abuse of the constitution....

so,this machine needs to get wiped? right?
open up your spam box, start clicking everything you can find till this windows box seizes up, then tell IT as you leave, "hey, my machine has been "funny" today,might want to scan it".
They will check it, nuke it, done deal....

Since they aren’t informing the Vendor so it can get patched,
Are they going to take responsibility when it does get into the wild?
Oh, we‘re big security company, we’re secure!
  Yeah right!
Show me a boat that doesn’t leak!

I love the part of the pdf that says,
"If someone demands a password, refer him or her to this document or have him or her call someone in Information Security."

As we all know, a majority of the hacks/spam out there arrive to us via .CN,
I'm sure someone in the US would fund Google to write some code to put .CN on another planet... .CN may be a large market, but who wants to fish in a pond full of inedible fish?
   

Go ahead, hire them as independant contractors, or long term temporary employees,pick a "term".
Remember,the wages you pay reflect how much you are buying.
Are you paying "from the neck down"?
Or do do you want some "brainpower " to go with it?
You only get what you are paying for...

This is insane,isn't this the job of a sysadmin,protect the password?
Above all else,protect the password.
Just because his managerial superior demands the password,do you hand it over?
Do you give the keys to your 6000 lb. Hummer to a 9 year old because he demands them?