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Comment Media and followers forget UFO stands for (Score 1) 200

It's been said by some here and many more much more intellectual types than I, that UFO stands for "Unidentified" Flying Object. If it was an Alien craft then it would no longer be "Unidentified" Funny that very few are mentioning a similar looking UFO captured (On film) by the Chilean Navy while they were testing their new FLIR system from a Helicopter... (google there is lots of video on it.), yet I have not heard anyone compare?

Submission + - Congressmen Push DHS For Answers on SS7 Security 1

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: year after flaws in SS7, one of the underlying protocols in the cell network came to the public’s attention, two powerful members of Congress are asking the secretary of Homeland Security how DHS has addressed the threat and whether the department has sufficient resources to detect and defeat SS7-related attacks.

The flaws in SS7, a protocol that’s designed to connect various telecom carriers, can enable anyone with access to the system to carry out discreet surveillance against a victim, knowing only the target’s phone number. Many people at each of the carriers have access to the system, and security researchers have been warning about the problem for years. Last year, researchers demonstrated an attack on the phone of Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) using this technique, prompting Lieu to call on congressional leaders to address the issue.

Now, a year later, Lieu and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) have sent a letter to John F. Kelly, secretary of Homeland Security, to detail what the department has done to address the SS7 problem and whether the federal government understands how this vulnerability could be used for surveillance.

“We are deeply concerned that the security of America’s telecommunications infrastructure is not getting the attention it deserves. Although there have been a few news stories about this topic, we suspect that most Americans simply have no idea how easy it is for a relatively sophisticated adversary to track their movements, tap their calls, and hack their smartphones. We are also concerned that the government has not adequately considered the counterintelligence threat posed by SS7-enabled surveillance,” the letter says.

Comment Mike Rogers/Vic Toews- Brothers or evil twins? (Score 1) 222

He must have taken the same privacy (or rather anti-privacy) course as our own Vic Toews (Canada's Public Safety Minister) - known for his comment "you can either stand with us, or with the child pornographers", during discussion of the Omnibus Crime Bill C-30. http://bit.ly/ZwWNZ5

Comment Trustworthy VPN Service - Witopia (Score 1) 193

by lcadwallader (#39631481) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Finding a Trustworthy VPN Service?
I have been using the VPN service from Witopia for nearly a year now. Found it to be bullet-proof, easy to configure, bounds through 31 countries and has PPTP, IPSEC, and L2TP. Support is fantastic, with Wiki support and user forums. Have recommended to clients, family and friends. Been a solid robust performer.
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Debt Collectors Using Facebook To Embarrass Those Who Owe 266

Posted by samzenpus from the pay-up-or-be-unfriended dept.
Not even the tranquility of FarmVille can save you from the long arm of debt collectors. Melanie Beacham says that a collector from MarkOne Financial contacted her relatives about her past due car note via Facebook. She is filing suit alleging that the company is harassing her family. Tampa based consumer attorney Billy Howard of Morgan & Morgan says, "Now Facebook does a debt collectors work for them. Now it's not only family members, it's all of your associates. It's a very powerful tool for debt collectors to use."
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Why Time Flies By As You Get Older 252

Posted by kdawson from the like-a-banana dept.
Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each interval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age.
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Enormous Amount of Frozen Water Found on Mars 442

Posted by CowboyNeal from the or-at-least-way-more-than-before dept.
schweini writes "Space.com is reporting that the Mars Express probe's MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding) experiment has detected and measured an enormous amount of water ice near Mars' south pole, which would be sufficient to submerge the whole planet's surface underneath approximately 10m of water on average."

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