Internet Security, Live Boot CD
This was prompted by the discussion on protecting yourself from various online threats, but it has applications outside of that. Want to avoid virus infections completely, boot into a computer that is...
View ArticleAssociation with Anon could be bad for Wikileaks
There is a good blog on Forbes that covers something many people here seem to have glossed over in the elation over anonymous making utter fools out of HBGary. In a nut shell, being associated with...
View ArticleAnonymous Publishes Stuxnet Worm
It turns out the goldmine of emails showing misconduct was not the only treasure Anonymous got from HBGary. HBGary had a version of the Stuxnet worm, used to damaged Iran's nuclear program, on their...
View ArticleIf You Think Wisconsin Is Bad Look At What Is Happening On The National Level
A lot of attention is being paid to the events unfolding in Wisconsin and the brave resistance against denying public employees the right to organize for their interests. As bad as Wisconsin is,...
View ArticleAnonymous Operation Shutdown
Group admin editor's note:This was queued before the date mentioned as significant in diary, but I missed it sitting in the queue until after date had passed. Mea Culpa. Please give admins or editors a...
View ArticleThe NYT Paywall Goes Down
http://www.niemanlab.org/...Well that didn’t take long, and I can’t say I’m shocked.What the New York Times doesn’t seem to get is that all attempts to secure digital information eventually fail....
View ArticleUS Government Developing App For Social Networking Actvists
This one made me laugh. Evidently our State Department is creating an app for cell phones to wipe the phones address book and send out an alert when activated. In the name of helping pro-democracy...
View ArticleDisenfranchised Anonymous Members Provide Law Enforcement With Chat Logs
A Gawker article names two (former) members of Anonymous who , according to Gawker, have become disenfranchised with the group and are providing law enforcement with chat logs planning crimes as well...
View ArticleGreen and Anti-Corporate Shaving
A while back I started a proper wet shaving routine. My reasons didn't have anything to do with the environment or money at the time. I have sensitive skin and I tend to sleep in so shaving was...
View ArticleOn Respecting the President as a Man or as the Office
At the core of many people’s stated problem with the discourse here seems to be an issue of respect. I’ve seen a few major gripes here about posters so called lack of respect that have lead to...
View ArticleLimbaugh turns on the GOP
I don't really have much to add to this. It speaks volumes on it's own.My friends, do not doubt me. I know this is going to shock many of you, and maybe disappoint a lot of you. But when you talk...
View ArticleGay Black Youth Gang in Washington DC
I expect this to generate a fair amount of controversy. As someone who has lived in the greater DC area and some of the nastier areas of DC proper for all of my life baring military tours I can't say...
View ArticleCalifornia to subpoena BOA
This is great news.Investigators with the state attorney general's office have subpoenaed Bank of America Corp. in connection with the sale and marketing of troubled mortgage-backed securities to...
View ArticleI am the 53%
I’m sure several of you have gotten a link to the “We Are the 53%” site. I responded to one, see below. Here is how you do it.I joined the US Navy in 2000. I spent several years on the government’s...
View ArticleHerman Cain and Yellow Flowers
I'm not sure what to make of this. I've seen some odd political advertisements but this is just nuts. I keep thinking this isn't real, it can't be. It doesn't even make any...
View ArticleEpic Rant on The Euro Situation
I'm not a fan of Nigel Farage. He's a conservative British member of the right wing UKIP. Some of the UKIP's core items are free trade and a flat tax. Furthermore in general I support the concept of...
View ArticleA Secret OWS Group?
The entire article is worth a read. A fair amount of what it says makes sense, and a fair amount of it remains highly speculative. However given the warnings that groups will try to gain control of...
View ArticleBloomberg Declares NYPD His Own Army
In a moment of "you have to read it to believe it" Bloomberg admits what many of us have suspected, the NYPD is his own army. This quote is so epic it should live on forever in the halls of...
View ArticleLibertarians VS Newt
From TPM...Libertarians in Washington are not happy about how the Republican primary is shaping up. Barring a miracle, there are two candidates with a decent shot at the nomination. Mitt Romney, the...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal Attacks "Consumption Equality"
In what might be a record of tone deathness and assholish behavior the Wall Street Journal has come out to address a disturbing tend in America today, consumption equality. In brief, it doesn't means...
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