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NDAA forum highlights: Moderator Eric Bond Q&A
Takoma Park/Silver Spring Voice editor Eric Bond posed several questions of both panelists. The first concerned the efficacy of resolutions like the proposed NDAA/AUMF resolution. Referring to impeachment and anti-Iraq War resolutions, Bond pointed out that “Bush finished out his … Continue reading
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Protect Your Digital Privacy: WiFi
Coffee houses have a historical caché as the place where revolutions are born, but today they are also one of the easiest places for the authorities or others to eavesdrop on your electronic communications. Broadband wireless, or WiFi, is not … Continue reading
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Tagged dotrights, encryption, Internet, privacy, security industrial complex, surveillance
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Protect Your Digital Privacy: Passwords
In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith finally comes undone and betrays the person about whom he cares most when he is confronted with the thing of which he is most afraid. No matter how otherwise secure an encryption algorithm is, … Continue reading
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Tagged dotrights, encryption, Fifth Amendment, Internet, privacy, surveillance
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Protect Your Digital Privacy: Browser Security
The Revolution Will Be Facebooked It might seem hard to believe that Ben Ali’s Tunisian dictatorship tried to nip the Arab Spring in the bud by stealing Facebook passwords. Yet as the revolution spread by message and image on the … Continue reading
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Media relay Taborn’s “be observed” statement
Local news outlets are beginning to take note of Metro Transit Police Chief Taborn’s statement reported here last week – that Metro bag search refusers would “be observed” by law enforcement, including possibly by the FBI and Department of Homeland … Continue reading
Taborn: bag search refusers will “be observed”
Last Wednesday’s overwhelming vote by the WMATA Riders Advisory Council calling on the Board to halt the bag searches and reconsider the program was welcome news indeed. But comments by Metro Transit Police Chief Taborn were troubling. In response to … Continue reading
