The $30 Billion Social Security Hack
Sometime last year computers at the U.S. Social Security Administration were hacked and the identities of millions of Americans were compromised. What, you didn’t hear about that? Nobody did. The...
View ArticleTSA Screeners Profit From Drug War Via Bribery
Four current and former Transportation Security Administration screeners have been arrested and face charges of taking bribes and looking the other way while suitcases filled with cocaine,...
View ArticlePGP founder, Navy SEALs uncloak encrypted comms biz
Phil Zimmermann and some of the original PGP team have joined up with former US Navy SEALs to build an encrypted communications platform that should be proof against any surveillance. The company,...
View ArticleConcealed weapons save lives
With a single exception, every multiple-victim public shooting in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry...
View ArticleStranded jet-skier effortlessly overcame $100M security system at JFK,...
A stranded jet-skier seeking help effortlessly overcame the Port Authority’s $100 million, supposedly state-of-the-art security system at JFK Airport — walking undetected across two runways and into a...
View ArticleMission Creep Leads TSA to Racially Profile in Pursuit of Non-Terrorists to...
The TSA has no business looking for drugs, outstanding arrest warrants, or immigration problems unless it has serious reason to believe that the person involved poses a serious threat to air safety....
View ArticleThe High Price of False Security
The attention paid to terrorism in the U.S. is considerably out of proportion to the relative threat it presents. That’s especially true when it comes to Islamic-extremist terror. Of the 150,000...
View ArticleI Am The Eye In The Sky, Looking At You
Today EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across the United States. These records, received as a result of EFF’s...
View ArticleFormer HHS Cyber Security Director Convicted For Child Porn
Former acting director of cyber security for the Department of Health and Human Services Timothy DeFoggi was convicted for a myriad of gruesome child pornography charges Tuesday, the Department of...
View ArticleThe TSA as Milgram Experiment
I have had it in mind to write up an article about the TSA as an implementation of the Milgram experiment, but it’s apparently old ground already covered:...
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