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Follow up to previous postings on the domestic surveillance program and AT&T’s alleged participation, today’s article in the Washington Post, A Story of Surveillance – Former Technician ‘Turning In’ AT&T Over NSA Program, by Ellen Nakashima: “…Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician…alleged that the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call …
Optimizing Investments in Security Countermeasures: A Practical Tool for Fixed Budgets, by Jonathan Caulkins and Nancy R. Mead, September/October 2007 edition of IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. “In the article, the team presents a tool and methodology they developed for software engineers and their clients to help them make security decisions when resources are limited.”
November 5, 2007 – Understanding Mortgage Foreclosure: Recent Events, the Process, and Costs November 2, 2007 – Director of National Intelligence Statutory Authorities: Status and Proposals November 2, 2007 – The MS-13 and 18th Street Gangs: Emerging Transnational Gang Threats? November 1, 2007 – National Strategy for Combating Terrorism: Background and Issues for Congress November …
Byting Back — Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents, RAND Counterinsurgency Study — Volume 1: “U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to exploit information power, which could be a U.S. advantage but instead is being used advantageously by insurgents. Because insurgency and counterinsurgency involve a battle for the allegiance of a population …
Press release: “According to the latest Harris Poll, the number of adults who are online at home, in the office, at school, library or other locations continues to grow at a steady rate. In the past year, the number of online users has reached an estimated 178 million, a ten percent increase.”
“FDA is implementing a Food Protection Plan (the Plan) that addresses both food safety and food defense for domestic and imported products. The Plan is integrated with the Administration’s Import Safety Action Plan. The Food Protection Plan operates through a set of integrated strategies that: Focus on risks over a product’s life cycle from production …
Press release: “A federal judge today ruled on a preservation motion filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), ordering that telecommunications companies must preserve any evidence of collaborating with the government in illegal spying on ordinary Americans. In his ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ordered the telecommunications companies to halt any routine destruction …
Monthly Budget Review, November 2007 Cost Estimate for Food and Energy Security Act of 2007 November 6, 2007: “The amendment would modify and extend the major farm income support, food and nutrition, land conservation, trade promotion, rural development, research, forestry, energy, specialty crops, and crop insurance programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). …
“The OECD broadband portal provides access to a range of broadband-related statistics gathered by the OECD. Policy makers must examine a range of indicators which reflect the status of individual broadband markets in the OECD. The OECD has indentified five main categories which are important for assessing broadband markets…Penetration (actual lines); Usage (household surveys); Coverage …
Fact Sheet: “Secretary Chertoff highlighted the Departments progress on immigration efforts. More than 76 miles of pedestrian fence have been completed on the Southwest border, and the number of Border Patrol agents is increasing: currently roughly 15,000, it is scheduled to be more than 18,300 by the end of next year. Over the past year, …
Press release: “Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and Rep. Tom Allen introduced the Non-Prescription Drug Modernization Act which would permit FDA to act quickly to protect consumers from unsafe or ineffective over-the-counter drugs. An FDA advisory panel recently recommended that over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medications for children under the age …
The New Yorker: Digitization and its discontents, by Anthony Grafton, November 5, 2007 “…the Internet will not bring us a universal library, much less an encyclopedic record of human experience. None of the firms now engaged in digitization projects claim that it will create anything of the kind. The hype and rhetoric make it hard …
