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Above: One of the items identified as notes produced by the infamous Dr.
Creepy handwritten notes of CIA psychologist who helped design US torture techniques for terror detainees - Boing Boing
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LOIC performs a denial-of-service (DoS) attack (or when used by multiple individuals, a DDoS attack ) on a target site by flooding the server with TCP packets or UDP packets with the intention of disrupting the service of a particular host. People have used LOIC to join voluntary botnets . [ 6 ]
Urban Dictionary: low orbit ion cannon
A DDoS client made by Praetox.com, this is one of the more widely used clients. Its effectiveness is debated, because some think there are easier ways, simply via MS-DOS or Notepad.
Urban Dictionary: 1337
n. 1. Nestled between 1336 and 1338, 1337 is commonly known as a number, or for the more advanced; an "integer" 2.
Schneier on Security
Aviation officials have questioned the need for such a strong permanent police presence at airports, suggesting they were there simply "to make the government look tough on terror". One senior executive said in his experience, the officers were expensive window-dressing.John Sedat, a biochemistry and biophysics professor, says he’s not going to get on an airplane again — at least not until the TSA rethinks its deployment of hundreds of body scanners that hit travelers with a tiny amount of radiation.
‘Nude’ Airport Scanners: Are They Safe? | Threat Level | Wired.com
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics.
Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard | Threat Level | Wired.com
ANALYSIS: Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with its own version of it. Twitter beta-tested a spine. On Friday, it emerged that the U.S. government recently got a court order demanding that Twitter turn over information about a number of people connected to WikiLeaks, including founder Julian Assange, accused leaker Pfc.
The world's media has jumped on the news that the US Department of Justice has sought, and obtained a court order seeking to compel Twitter to reveal account information associated with several of its users who are associated with Wikileaks. Communications privacy law is exceedingly complex, and unfortunately, none of the legal experts who actually specialize in this area (people like Orin Kerr , Paul Ohm , Jennifer Granick and Kevin Bankston ) have yet to chime in with their thoughts. As such, many commentators and journalists are completely botching their analysis of this interesting event.
slight paranoia: Thoughts on the DOJ wikileaks/twitter court order
There is a lot of discussion about Do Not Track at the moment. The FTC has announced support for the idea; Mozilla has added a Do Not Track header option into Firefox betas, and Congresswoman Jackie Speier has introduced a Do Not Track bill . Other proposed privacy legislation, such as Rep.
What Does the "Track" in "Do Not Track" Mean? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
HTTPS Everywhere Rulesets | Electronic Frontier Foundation
This page describes how to write rulesets for HTTPS Everywhere , the Firefox plugin that switches sites over from http to https automatically. HTTPS Everywhere comes with thousands of rulesets, but you might want to edit them, or write new ones.Rights and Freedom
Web & Totalitarism
IN AN ideal world, elections should be two things: free and fair. Every adult, with a few sensible exceptions, should be able to vote for a candidate of their choice, and each single vote should be worth the same.
Sign in to read: Electoral dysfunction: Why democracy is always unfair - science-in-society - 28 April 2010 - New Scientist
Geneive Abdo reports on the eve of Iran’s parliamentary elections : “Now, just hours before the polls open on March 2, Khatami and many other Iranians for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution will stage a boycott.