by Joseph Forbes | Feb 28, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, TECHNOLOGY
from the sacred-cows-make-great-brisket dept. William D. Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, writes that although we have been bombarded with tales of woe about the potentially devastating impacts of cutting the...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 25, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, POLITICAL
from the keeping-‘murica-safe dept. Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, lives near Seattle and bought a boat there. He ordered it from a company based near him, but across the border in Canada. Yesterday, the company tried to deliver it to him, and it had...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 15, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY, Technicals
from the no-more-flash-or-java-in-fighter-jets dept. Last night before the State of the Union speech, President Obama signed an executive order for improving cybersecurity of critical infrastructure (PDF). The highlights of the order are: ‘information sharing...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 14, 2013 | NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the floodgates-in-the-desert dept. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski recently proposed making RF spectrum publicly available, and many in the media (including the Washington Post) have been mistakenly conflating open access to WiFi signal with free Internet access;...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 11, 2013 | LAW, POLITICAL
from the second-verse-same-as-the-first dept. “House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said Friday that they plan to re-introduce the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 10, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
from the dubya-the-painter dept. The apparent hack of several e-mail accounts has exposed personal photos and sensitive correspondence from members of the Bush family, including both former U.S. presidents. The posted photos and e-mails contain a watermark with the...
