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“It really comes down to, so what are those reactions that make sense that we can do defensively, analogous to the missile shoot-down?” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee. “But if you are to go after a computer in foreign space or some other thing, that might be a response option that would now take, I think, the president and the [defense] secretary to step in and start making decisions, versus us taking that on,” Alexander said. “And I think that’s probably where we’ll end up, and that makes a lot of sense from my perspective.” Alexander’s remarks came during a hearing that highlighted senators’ concerns about the growing threats to U.S. military , civilian and commercial networks dependent on the Internet.
Cyberattacks should require presidential authorization, official says - The Washington Post
Israel said would keep Gaza near collapse: WikiLeaks | Top News | Reuters
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza's economy "on the brink of collapse" while avoiding a humanitarian crisis, according to U.S. diplomatic cables published by a Norwegian daily on Wednesday. Three cables cited by the Aftenposten newspaper, which has said it has all 250,000 U.S. cables leaked to WikiLeaks, showed that Israel kept the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv briefed on its internationally criticized blockade of the Gaza Strip. The territory, home to 1.3 million Palestinians, is run by the Islamist Hamas group, which is shunned by the West over its refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence or accept existing interim Israeli-Palestinian peace deals. "As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed to (U.S. embassy economic officers) on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge," one of the cables read.Ein Korruptionsskandal gewaltigen Ausmaßes scheint sich in der Slowakei anzubahnen. Im Mittelpunkt der Affäre steht angebliches Geheimdienstmaterial, das kurz vor Weihnachten von Unbekannten ins Internet gestellt wurde und jetzt für immer mehr Aufregung im Land sorgt. Über 70 Seiten vermutlicher Abhörprotokolle, die vom slowakischen Geheimdienst SIS stammen sollen, sind offenbar verschriftlichte Versionen einer Abhöraktion mit dem Decknamen "Gorilla". Laut den Dokumenten soll der Lauschangriff von Geheimdienstagenten auf eine Wohnung in Bratislava fokussiert gewesen sein. Die Abhöraktion war legal, mit richterlicher Genehmigung, in den Jahren 2005 und 2006, also zu Ende der zweiten Regierung von Mikulás Dzurinda erfolgt. In der besagten Wohnung soll sich einer der bekanntesten slowakischen Finanzhaie und Mitbesitzer der Finanzgruppe Penta mit hochrangigen Politikern und Beamten, darunter mit dem damaligen Wirtschaftsminister Jirko Malchárek, getroffen haben.
Geleakte Abhörprotokolle und Korruptionsverdacht - Slowakei - derStandard.at › International
Speaking of 2011 - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Find More Stories Speech gained attention in 2010 as a result of Oscar-winning film The King's Speech. It was set in the 1930s when the monarch's speech dysfunction became an issue of state importance; beforehand public speech skills did not rate. Yet fate forced King George VI to confront his speech demons and appear functional at a critical time when two of history's most brilliant speakers Churchill and Hitler were in full flight and Britain desperately needed him.
This is a guide with which even a total noob can get high class security for his system and complete anonymity online. But its not only for noobs, it contains a lot of tips most people will find pretty helpfull. It is explained so detailed even the biggest noobs can do it^^ : By the time you are finished reading and implementing this guide, you will be able to securely and anonymously browse any website and to do so anonymously. No one not even your ISP or a government agent will be able to see what you are doing online.
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Flash proxies are a new way of providing access to a censorship circumvention system such as Tor . A flash proxy is a miniature proxy that runs in a web browser. It checks for clients that need access, then conveys data between them and a Tor relay. Tor has bridge relays , but in some cases even these can be blocked despite the fact that their addresses are handed out only a few at a time. The purpose of this project is to create many, generally ephemeral bridge IP addresses, with the goal of outpacing a censor's ability to block them. Rather than increasing the number of bridges at static addresses, we aim to make existing bridges reachable by a larger and changing pool of addresses.
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The U.S. Cities With the Most Leftover to Spend ... After Paying for Housing - Housing - The Atlantic Cities
The comments on my recent post on America's most economically advantaged metros got me thinking. A number of folks brought up the issue of cost of living. "Does your index take into account the high cost of living in some of the metro areas that top this list," one commenter asked. "The amount of money people have to buy presents is diminished when they're paying over a third of their income on housing." In many cases, it is a quite a bit more than that. With the help of Charlotta Mellander, I took a look at the amount of money people in different cities have left over after they paid for housing.
A little-noticed section of the Stop Online Piracy Act could make it illegal to distribute Tor and other software that can "circumvent" attempts by the U.S. government to block pirate Web sites. The controversial Hollywood-backed copyright bill allows injunctions to be filed against "any" person, nonprofit organization, or company that distributes a "product or service" that can be used to circumvent or bypass blockades erected against alleged pirate Web sites such as ThePirateBay.org. The U.S. government-funded Tor Project could be a target of SOPA's anti-circumvention section. "It looks like SOPA would outlaw Tor ," says Markham Erickson, an attorney with Holch & Erickson LLP who runs NetCoalition .
How SOPA's 'circumvention' ban could put a target on Tor | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
Julian Assange, Australien, 40 ans, date de naissance inconnue: Actu - Actu - Le Matin
L’Australien, qui a vu son extradition confirmée aujourd’hui vers la Suède par la Haute-Cour de Londres pour agressions sexuelles, a eu une vie décousue. Dont on ne sait presque rien. Il a publié tout sur tout mais lui-même laisse filtrer très peu d’information sur son propre parcours.Who's afraid of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks? Everyone - The Economic Times
Anand Soondas, TNN Nov 6, 2011, 10.39am IST I don't know if Liu Xiaobo has met Julian Assange . But if the two do bump into each other sometime in life— unlikely as that may be - they'll have a lot to crib about. There were no high-fives for Liu from most world leaders as China slammed the Nobel peace prize winner for talking freedom and liberty. They have gone quiet on Assange, too, as the US and its friends come together to hunt a man already labeled a terrorist by Sarah Palin.
Verisign, the registrar in charge of the .net and .com toplevel domains, has recently decided to hijack every available domain and redirect them to their advertising webserver. This means that if you mistakenly type www.lniux.com instead of www.linux.com , you are automatically redirected to Verisign's web site. This outrageous behaviour not only means they get free advertisment all over the Internet, but they can also store browser referer information, or collect emails sent to mistyped addresses (yes, they get the @lniux.com email as well).
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Imperva has seen a resurgence of what we have dubbed "Boy-in-the-Browser" attacks, which are less sophisticated versions of Man-in-the-Browser attacks, but just as effective and similarly hard to detect. A more technical overview can be found at Imperva's ADC Advisory page. “Boy-in-the-Browser” attacks reroute the victim’s traffic to an attacker controlled server. Banks and other consumer sites have been focusing on MitB attacks, as they are very dangerous and hard to detect.
Boy in the Browser - Imperva Data Security Blog
After allegedly breaking into NATO’s servers this morning, the amorphous hacktivist collective Anonymous announced on Twitter that they had retrieved a document from the U.S. Treasury providing previously unseen information on the debt ceiling. The document, which is a page long, was not obtained through illegal methods, says group spokesman “An0n0ps”. In an exclusive online chat with TheDC, An0n0ps stated that the data contained in this document will be “surprising” and will be detrimental to the GOP’s efforts in settling the debt ceiling issue. The group plans to release the document on an0n0ps.tumblr.com tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. EST, and has promoted the dump on Anonymous-related Twitter feeds, the largest of which has nearly 21,000 followers.
Hacktivists | Anonymous Collective | Treasury Document | The Daily Caller
The Internet has become so economically important that few countries can afford to cut off access altogether. Instead, repressive regimes allow 'Net access, but try to block individual websites they don't want their populations to see. Some users, aided by allies in the West, use circumvention technologies like Web proxies or TOR to access forbidden information.