by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the go-big-or-go-home dept. An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from an article at Bloomberg giving an inside look at how the Libor scandal happened: “Every morning, from his desk by the bathroom at the far end of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the get-to-the-choppa! dept. Security pros and government officials warn of a possible cyber 9/11 involving banks, utilities, other companies, or the Internet, InfoWorld reports. ‘A cyber war has been brewing for at least the past year, and although you...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the facebook-and-the-rest dept. A new report released Monday revealed that Google+, less than a year and a half after its public debut, is now the No. 2 social network in the world with 343 million active users. Even better for Google, YouTube, which had not...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
Antigua and Barbuda is a small country in the Caribbean that for years had a flourishing gambling industry. A few years ago 5% of all Antiguans worked at gambling related companies. However, when the U.S. prevented the island from accessing their market the industry...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, POLITICAL
The only official punished for the illegal NSA program was the one who discussed it. The same is now true of torture by Glenn Greenwald The permanent US national security state has used extreme secrecy to shield its actions from democratic accountability ever since...
