WASHINGTON--The FBI and multiple members of Congress said on Wednesday that Internet service providers must be legally required to keep records of their users activities for later review by police.

Here we go again... Big Brother comes back again... trying to gain more data on "un-american" activities...

(BIG BROTHER ALERT) FBI, politicos renew push for ISP data retention laws | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com

Decius wrote:

Arnold has failed to distinguish how the search of his laptop and its electronic contents is logically any different from the suspicionless border searches of travelers’ luggage that the Supreme Court and we have allowed.

Its clear that there is a difference. The court may decide that the difference is not constitutionally significant, but it is not helpful for the court to pretend that no difference exists. This is a sort of ignorance that allows the court to reach a comfortable decision without addressing the substantive question...

My rant on today's decision.

See the related article on SecurityFocus:

http://www.securityfocus.com/print/columnists/469

RE: Re: The Volokh Conspiracy - Ninth Circuit Allows Suspicionless Computer Searches at the Border:

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Never before has the court system faced a situation wherein people are regularly transporting all of their worldly information with them every time they cross a border. That is not just like luggage. It is a fundamentally different situation, and the court ought to address it specifically, and explain why searches of all of this information are presumptively reasonable.

The Washington Post has already reported on corporations that have instructed their employees in response to this policy to maintain a special "travel laptop" which is not their normal computer, and is just like luggage, in that the information copied on to it prior to travel is only the information required on that trip. It seems perverse that in a "free society" people would be forced to go to the trouble of keeping a special laptop on which they place carefully selected scraps of information for no other reason than so that they can bring it through a legal black hole in which they are subject to nearly unconstrained searches.

The 4th amendment is intended to avoid creating situations wherein normal people have to act like criminals out of fear that a government fishing expedition will root through their property and all of their correspondence and find some reason to hang them. That is precisely what this policy does, and that is precisely why I think that these searches are not reasonable. The court system might disagree, but it is not responsible for them to do so without giving the matter due examination.

Note the "The Washington Post has already reported on corporations that have instructed their employees in response to this policy to maintain a special "travel laptop" which is not their normal computer, and is just like luggage, in that the information copied on to it prior to travel is only the information required on that trip."

I can't wait to see the business community weigh in on these added costs to keep their corporate data private, away from the prying eyes of the federal government.

Re: The Volokh Conspiracy - Ninth Circuit Allows Suspicionless Computer Searches at the Border:

Got more stuff from Cisco today...

Just got the feeding tube removed...

UPDATE---
I've had to remove the content, or lose my job.

The below link goes no where.

dc0de’s ramblings… » Blog Archive » Cisco and CheckPoint, both selling the same story

Here is my write up of the CheckPoint Experience, held in Las Vegas this February...

Let me know what you're seeing from your security vendors...

CheckPoint [in]Experience 2008 - what a waste of time

Please keep checking the site. We plan to have preregistration up soon. We're updating it everyday!

Come meet and greet! Have some fun!

Summercon 2008 Official Announcement | summercon 2008

I gave a talk at roots camp DC on the following things:

nginx. The nginx wiki

varnish

memcached. The memecached wiki

pound

stunnel

Billy's Book

DBpedia

The title of the talk was "Speed Kills: How to make your webpage load in 500ms or less, ask me how!"

The talk consisted of seven yellow note cards and one physical copy of Ajax Security.

--timball

Tim, These look awesome... I'm looking at pound solution for other tasks... and going to review the others... that's great! Thanks!

RootsCamp wiki - The password has been reset.

(oh no, they got me ranting...)

Soothing music is played to calm passengers in the checkpoint queue area, allowing behavior detection officers to better identify suspicious passengers.

WTF is a behavior detection officer? It sounds like a "Profiler" to me... exactly what training is required to become a TSA Profile Gestapo?

Does this ring of KGB or the SS to anyone?

God, they've removed our rights, raised our taxes, restricted our movements, and NOW they're making new uniforms, new checkpoints, and new, new, new, new... tax expenditures.

Where is the "Frequent Traveler" program that was promised three years ago? How about not making any new shit, until you deliver the shit you promised already?

Where is the congressional oversight on the spending from this Fraudulent organization who is supposed to be making travel SAFER? Please, can anyone provide any correlation to the safety of air travel, and the spending on the TSA?

NO? I didn't think so...

(end rant)

TSA's version of the new Airport Checkpoint

But now that a couple of years have passed and the issue has not resolved, Boileau decided to release the tool on his website.

because Microsoft didn't consider it a "vulnerability"? a COUPLE of YEARS!!!

Come on people, hold your software vendor to a higher standard.

Hack into a Windows PC - no password needed - Security - Technology - smh.com.au