Ten Years After the Patriot Act, a Look at Three of the Most Dangerous Provisions Affecting Ordinary Americans
Ten Years After the Patriot Act, a Look at Three of the Most Dangerous Provisions Affecting Ordinary Americans - Ten years ago today, in the name of protecting national security and guardin
"War on Drugs" Turns 40
In 1971, President Richard Nixon named drug abuse as "public enemy number one in the United States," and officially declared a "war on drugs".
But the long federal experiment in prohibition of drugs has given us crime and corruption combined with a manifest failure to stop the use of drugs or reduce their availability to children.
Can you hear me now?
Continued diligence is important for continued safety and investigators need all available tools, but we need to stay diligent and need to keep our own eyes and ears open on this one.
Some useful Drug War History
This Week in History - March 18, 1839: Lin Tse-Hsu, the imperial Chinese commissioner in charge of suppressing the opium traffic, orders all foreign traders to surrender their opium. In response, the British send expeditionary warships to the coast of China, initiating the First Opium War.
BIG MOTHER!
"We, Siemens, have the technology to record it
(energy consumption) every minute, second, microsecond, more or less live...From that we can infer how many people are in the house, what they do, whether they're upstairs, downstairs, do you have a dog, when do you habitually get up, when did you get up this morning, when do you have a shower: masses of private data." It's a virtual window into the home.
KILL or be KILLED??
Cyber Attacks and Friendly Fire
Obama internet 'kill switch' bill approved - http://www.campaignforliberty.com/wire.php?view=12212 [Campaign for Liberty]
Facebook 'Like' button draws privacy scrutiny
Facebook 'Like' button draws privacy scrutiny - Web publishers have quickly adopted a button that lets visitors express "like" for their sites. But it also lets Facebook track those visitors as they switch from one site to another. [CNET DRAGNET]
