Keith Alexander’s answers to written questions posed by the Senate Armed Services Committee in preparation for his confirmation hearing. Keith Alexander is the incoming head of US Cybercommand. These answers provide the most detailed unclassified insight to date into Adminstration and DOD thinking on the subject of cyberconflict. There are many classified answers, but it is possible to read in between the lines in some cases.
The Volokh Conspiracy - “Government Is Not Reason, It Is Not Eloquence — It Is Force”
Topic: Miscellaneous
12:22 pm EDT, Apr 15, 2010
This is undoubtedly apocryphal, like many other quotations attributed to Lincoln or Washington. No one has ever found any evidence that Washington said it.
The time for an update to the ECPA is now. For more than a year, privacy advocates, legal scholars, and major Internet and communications service providers have been engaged in a dialogue to explore how the ECPA applies to new services and technologies. We have developed consensus around the notion of a core set of principles intended to simplify, clarify, and unify the ECPA standards; provide clearer privacy protections for subscribers taking into account changes in technology and usage patterns; and preserve the legal tools necessary for government agencies to enforce the laws and protect the public.
Major corps and rights groups call for overhaul of U.S. Internet privacy laws.
Clearing a fair path to citizenship - Other Views - MiamiHerald.com
Topic: Miscellaneous
2:52 pm EDT, Mar 26, 2010
Real ID is back.
We would require all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs to obtain a high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security card. Each card's unique biometric identifier would be stored only on the card; no government database would house everyone's information. The cards would not contain any private information, medical information or tracking devices. The card would be a high-tech version of the Social Security card that citizens already have.
YouTube - Band Of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You
Topic: Miscellaneous
2:19 pm EDT, Mar 26, 2010
I've been on Delta flights so much in the past couple of months that the music they play while you're waiting to push back from the gate has become stuck in my head. This song was literally driving me mad until I found it on youtube.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Buddha
Every American should stand in the intersection where the Boston Massacre occurred and look up at the balcony of the Old State House, from which they had the audacity to read the Declaration of Independence whilst framed by the Lion and the Unicorn of the British Monarchy - a balcony off the very room where the Constitutionality of the Writs of Assistance was debated. This country has a lot of hallowed ground but I cannot think of a more profound location.
Feds push for tracking cell phones | Politics and Law - CNET News
Topic: Miscellaneous
1:08 pm EST, Feb 11, 2010
The Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that "a customer's Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records" that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.
