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Mayweather drove up to the main gate of his community at 4 a.m. on Dec. 19 when the security guard asked him for ID. That led to an outburst from Mayweather, who said, "Let me in my mother f**king house!!![boxing.fanhouse.com]

I guess it comes down to whether the Security Officer did, in fact, know who he is or not. It doesn't sound like he did based on the audio, and if he didn't then he was doing the right thing by not letting him in. On the other hand, if he did know who he was and was just being functionary, then he pretty well disqualified himself from the job.

Las Vegas casino bosses are serving notice to the bandit who made off with $1.5 million in chips from the Bellagio: Try to redeem those worth $25,000 soon or they'll become worthless.[bakersfieldnow.com]

Authorities have found the body of one of Colombia's most brutal drug lords, who escaped from a police ambush but died of his wounds in the jungle, and whose death leaves a vacuum in the criminal underworld that others will scramble to fill.[news.scotsman.com]

That's really the problem ... cut off one head, five more grow back 'cuz there's money to be made ...

Also:

While drug violence spills into Texas from Mexico, a local state lawmaker is trying to hit cartels where it hurts the most — their supply.[caller.com]

Here are eight resolutions you should consider adopting to ensure you have a great New Year – at least when it comes to the security of your computers and gadgets.

Today’s „Rzeczpospolita” informs that a group of Polish cryptographers and mathematicians constructed a device for unbreakable encryption of data sent between computers or phones.[poland.pl]

A Moscow court has sentenced a former member of Russia's upper Parliament house to life in prison on murder and terrorism charges.[upi.com]

I never really know what to think about Russian politics ...

This has caused increasing unrest recently, because more and more Pakistanis are pushing back at Islamic radicals who want Pakistanis to live according to sedate, and strict, religious rules.[strategypage.com]

The 28-year-old started as a police dispatcher in Mexico’s drug-plagued north. In November, barely a year later, she found herself running the show in Guadalupe, population 9,000, near the drug-war ground zero of Ciudad Juarez. She was the only law officer remaining in the border municipality after the 12 other cops she worked with were either killed or quit in the face of rising drug violence. But, she hasn’t been seen in almost a week, after a dozen gunmen burned her house down and torched two cars outside, according to reports.[theglobeandmail.com]

Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress here Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM cellphone calls and text messages, using only four sub-$15 telephones as network “sniffers,” a laptop computer and a variety of open source software.[wired.com]

Interesting ...

But instead of sliding down to freedom, the police say, Anthony Silva dropped more than 25 feet to the pavement. Now, Silva, 31, has two collapsed lungs and broken legs –– as well as two charges of shoplifting and one for resisting arrest, Maj. Thomas F. Oates III said.[projo.com]

This was no doubt one of the moves that Silva always thought would work, but neglected to try out ahead of time ...

The Kryptos voice encryption App for iPhone can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store for $4.99. Kryptos is a Secure Voice Over IP application.

Israel’s 98^th Submarine Commando course has ended, marked by a festive ceremony in the Israel Navy Base in Haifa.[israelnationalnews.com]

The British government opted for the Trident nuclear weapons system because it estimated it could kill up to 10 million Russians and inflict "unacceptable damage" on the former Soviet Union, according to secret Whitehall documents written in the 1970s.[guardian.co.uk]

Yet, as the nation debates the federal Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) stricter screening methods at airport security checkpoints, about 15 million passengers board subway cars and trains unscreened each weekday.[usatoday.com]

I don't recall hearing of any subway trains falling out of the sky carrying thousands of gallons of jet fuel recently ...

Marton said the dead man, Takina Latu, 22, became upset, retrieved a handgun and, in the club's carpark, fired several rounds at the security guard striking him in several areas, including his ballistic vest.[myfoxdfw.com]

Hmmm, had his vest on - check, vanquished the baddies while taking hits himself - check, survived - check... gotta love it. I hope some video comes out on this.

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To keep from being shot by your own weapon is a pretty good goal in this career choice.[hueysgunsight.blogspot.com]

It would be interesting to know how frequently, within the set of all weapon retention events, the perp goes for a cross-body approach such as seen in the video ...

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This has been widely covered in the MSM but I'll put up this link as a refresher. The point of posting about this is to point out how questionable it was for the author to put up video about the airport security lapses without taking steps to ensure his own security first. Some editing, titles instead of voice-overs, some meta-data removal and an upload from an open wifi hotspot and the author would be sitting back enjoying the fracus rather than being the fracus ...

The student handed over his wallet and the robber fled on foot. The student was chasing after the robber when a second black male appeared and displayed a knife. That stopped the chase, and the suspect ran away.[mpnnow.com]

Hmmm ...

Police say he told employees that he was the father of a four-year-old girl and asked if she was at school that day.[kfyrtv.com]

That's some well-thought-out patter ... certainly wouldn't make me suspicious ...

Casino security was originally tipped off that something was amiss when Eisenberg’s tips suddenly increased dramatically, from less than $200 per day to over $500.[pokernewsboy.com]

Even if surveillance didn't notice, his fellow dealers would have ratted him out, the employee chip bank (or wherever they convert their tokes to cash) attendant would have ratted him out, the poker players would have ratted him out ... sooner or later, you're going to get ratted out ...

Hopefully, we're back to the normal schedule now

From 2008 we have been following the story of the 3 Belizean casino security guards - along with their boss who were locked up in a Mexican jail - after crossing the Santa Elena border into Mexico in armd pursuit of some rogue patrons.[7newsbelize.com]

As they say, "Cool story, bro" ...

U.S. importers of fresh fruits and vegetables from Mexico say they are beginning to face losses from delays after U.S. quality inspectors pulled out of Mexico fearing escalating drug violence.[today.msnbc.com]

Research in Motion has bowed to the Indian government at last. It told the home ministry that it will comply with the 31 January deadline to provide a "final solution" - you what!? - for lawful access to its data services.[techeye.net]

Gee, it's a good thing that tangos won't be smart enough to switch to other communication methods, because it they were, all the Indian gubmint would be able to do is compromise business secrets, etc. ...

The Transportation Security Administration spent about $30 million on devices that puffed air on travelers to "sniff" them out for explosives residue. Those machines ended up in warehouses, removed from airports, abandoned as impractical.[washingtonpost.com]

An effective sniffer and a metal detector are everything you need to cover all the bases and neither have the negative externalities associated with some of the more recent developments ...

A security guard in Houston is charged with criminal negligent homicide after police say his girlfriend's sister was fatally shot as he waved a pistol he thought was unloaded.[chron.com]

Always a mistake ...

Posting will be light for a couple more days due to work deadlines ...

The shooting suspect, Kenneth Potter, 55, is a maintenance man and part-time security guard at the apartment building, according to police reports.[gazette.com]

Hmmm ... I don't know the Springs milieu well enough to know whether this means his story wasn't hanging together or if they just arrest everyone involved (that isn't going to the hospital/morgue) ...

Still, the police report also provides support for a claim made by Mr. Assange’s supporters that the women involved seemed willing to continue their friendships with Mr. Assange after what they described as sexual misbehavior.[nytimes.com]

Investigators have said the inmates left through a service entrance for vehicles and were helped by someone in the prison staff.[abc.net.au]

If he isn't found waxed, it sounds like you can probably assume it was the warden, maybe even if he IS found waxed ...

Update: This isn't to suggest that he mightn't have had real, REAL good reasons for doing it ... just saying ...

Bumped

When he got to his hotel after the three-hour flight, he was shocked to discover the gun traveled unnoticed from Houston.[abcnews.go.com]

I received a couple of comments about this article that bear addressing. 

Probably the most important aspect of this security failure is the fact that the traveler didn't 'realize' that his gun was in the bag. Also, when the red teams are conducting the tests referred to in the article, they know that there won't be any prison time or any other bad thing happen to them if they're caught. In both situations, the travelers aren't going to be giving off the cue's that would likely bring a TSA Officer's attention fully to the fore. It's easy to say "Oh, they should be fully focused on the screens the whole time they're on duty", and I agree that it would be nice if such were the case, but it just isn't ever going to happen. It's like driving down the highway. We really should be fully focused when we're out in our cars traveling 70-80 mph, but how often are we, really.

On the other hand, a traveler that 'knows' there are potentially going to be strongly negative repercussions for the items they choose to put in their bag is going to be fairly radiating cues that say "I'm your chance to be a hero, today!"

This shouldn't be construed as a defense of TSA, per se. Most of what they do is a waste of time and money. But one shouldn't assume that someone planning to go tango would be able to get through undetected just because someone that isn't planning such makes it through.

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It took a few seconds for Officer Campbell to notice, but Cotten picked that exact moment to rob the store. Bad timing.[hypervocal.com]

This is mainly interesting because it serves to show how limited you are while you have a blam-blam in your paw. The minute you realize you're not going to be able to justify dropping the hammer, it becomes a real liability ...

At least 140 inmates escaped from a prison in the violence-plagued border state of Tamaulipas, authorities said Friday.[latimes.com]

In other words, the FBI found it more productive to burglarize a house than to crack a 216-bit code, despite having the computational resources of the U.S. government behind it.[computerworld.com]

Interesting ...

A U.S. Navy-owned submarine that located a lost hydrogen bomb and scouted the wreck of the Titanic is getting a $40 million makeover to go deeper than ever before. But first things first: Some interior redecorating will allow the submarine's occupants to observe deep sea life without holding yoga-like positions for hours on end.[ouramazingplanet.com]

When he got to his hotel after the three-hour flight, he was shocked to discover the gun traveled unnoticed from Houston.[abcnews.go.com]

One old trend: deperimeterization. Two current trends: consumerization and decentralization. Three future trends: deconcentration, decustomerization, and depersonization. That’s IT in 2020—­it’s not under your control, it’s doing things without your knowledge and consent, and it’s not necessarily acting in your best interests. And this is how things will be when they’re working as they’re intended to work; I haven't even started talking about the bad guys yet.[schneier.com]

Bruce is always thought-provoking, just not always in a good way ...

"A lot of security precautions you could put in place at government installations and banks and so on," said Worldwide Casino Consulting owner and casino security expert George Joseph. "You really can't put in place too much out front in a casino. We're an entertainment venue, and we're customer friendly."[8newsnow.com]

Also ...

"Which is a worse headline?" asked Schwartz, a former casino security guard. " '$1.5 million stolen from the Bellagio in chips'? Or 'Three innocent bystanders dead in gun battle'?"[latimes.com]

So true ...

A day later, police were keeping watch for anyone trying to cash big-denomination chips. Experts and police say that for all the risk, the robber may be staring at colorful, but worthless, chips.[timesdispatch.com]

The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning Texans to avoid traveling to Mexico during the holidays.[chron.com]

That's an easy one ...

Google has made it clear to the security agencies in India that it is not going to share the encryption key of its email service, asserted a Google executive.[siliconindia.com]

Maybe ...

The "combat codpiece" comes in camouflage colours, and looks like a bulky pair of underpants which tie on at both sides, which is worn over the trousers.[bbc.co.uk]

Finally, someone's prioritizing ...

(Hat-tip to Reprisal)

Remember burglars will seize every opportunity to see what tempting expensive gifts you have left under your tree, they will target homes with inadequate security measures in place or homes that are easily accessible.[securityconcerns.co.uk]

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I would certainly like to see what's causing all the movement in the other room ... that's one hell of a long time to keep a life and death struggle going ... maybe it's just post-kill adrenalin-burn or something ...

Gordon Absher, spokesman for Bellagio owner MGM Resorts International, declined to discuss the investigation. But he noted that casino chips aren't the same as cash.[abclocal.go.com]

Maybe he can superglue them together and make some nice coasters ...

A deal is close on legislation to give the state control of Atlantic City’s gaming district and deregulate the casinos, Gov. Chris Christie said today.[nj.com]

Moore just blogged, he will do anything he can to keep WikiLeaks "alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax dollars."[tmz.com]

Hmmm, I smell groundwork being laid ...

Doctors in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, said Monday that they would stop working for 24 hours to demand that the government do more to deal with the violence ravaging their city.[cnn.com]

Also ...

The U.S. officers say the Guatemalan troops are committed to the task of defeating the Mexican drug cartels and are training tirelessly. “They rest when they sleep,” said one Green Beret, who said the Guatemalan officers are engaged in exercises day and night.[foxnews.com]

It was a report that sounded bizarre on its face:  A secret Taiwan navy delegation visits Russia under the cover of a commercial delegation, ostensibly to buy icebreakers but actually to try to acquire diesel submarines.[asiasentinel.com]

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Please note that his pants fall down around his ankles when he jumps over the counter ...

Mexico needs to build a strong fence to keep the guns out.[fcir.org]

This was actually from the comments, but it set me all achuckle ...

The government-mandated aguinaldo — the lump-sum savings deducted from maquila workers' paychecks and then distributed during the holiday season — has also been affected. Spoon says there were discussions about disbursing it quarterly after criminals were rumored to have threatened factory supervisors into handing over the savings or face retribution.[tucsonsentinel.com]

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Her nuclear reactor could power a city the size of Southampton, she will never need refuelling and she can use her guided ­missiles to pulverise an enemy more than 1,000 miles away.[dailymail.co.uk]

The three basic approaches to securing data on a flash drive involve using software, hardware, or a combination of both.[pcworld.com]

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner in Alberta says it's "incomprehensible" why data encryption was not used in seven self-reported breaches of personal information over the past three months, each involving a stolen or lost laptop or digital device.[canadianunderwriter.ca]

When you're staying at a hotel, bring the laptop with you wherever you go. Or, if there's a safe in your room, put it in there. If neither of these solutions work, bring it to the front desk and ask if it can be put in the hotel's safe. And if that's not an option, use the lock and cable.[pcworld.com]

If options 2 and 3 aren't available, you may want to think about staying at better hotels ...

The group that calls itself Gnosis claimed and provided evidence of responsibility, motivated in their words by Gawker’s arrogance in its previous dealings with members of the Internet board 4chan.[forbes.com]

Provocativity is the opposite of invisibility ...

Also, in general, don't f*@% with the Wongs Anons ...

Both the school and church hired Northwest Merchant Patrol to provide extra surveillance patrols after hours. Clients and deputies became suspicious when none of the burglaries showed signs of forced entry.

One of the security guards, who is also a personal friend of Long's, was shot and is now paralyzed from the waist down.[wreg.com]

You can't repeat it too often: Today's the day, EVERY day!

Also, one facing the other way ... but the same rule applies ...

The shooting occurred Saturday night when the security guard went to investigate shots fired in a parking lot and confronted two suspects.[kvoa.com]

I will use common sense before self defense and never be abusive or offensive.[tdn.com]

Defence Minister Ueli Maurer of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party said in spring 2009 that he wanted to make the Swiss army “the best in the world”.

For many of us, there is a certain false security in believing that, since most of America’s streets are not filled with the murder and mayhem that is going on just South of our borders, we have nothing to worry about.[redstate.com]

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Police say a man armed with a gun robbed a 7-Eleven convenience store on November 28.[nbcactionnews.com]

Hmmm ... quite professional, but the jump onto the counter looks like the body dynamic of a juvenile, probably no more than 16-17 ...

Terrorism succeeds not because of what it does to its target, but what its target does to itself in response.[smh.com]

So true ...

Wikileaks roundup

"This will play right into the hands of those who wish to paint us all as threats and clamp down on freedom of speech and impose all kinds of new restrictions on the Internet, not to mention the fact that the exact same types of attacks can be used on 'us' as well as 'them.'"[gizmodo.com]

A major test of Payback's mounting firepower will be Amazon, given the size of its servers. The attempt to attack the site last Thursday was half-hearted, but nevertheless audacious. Now sources estimate they would need between 30,000 and 40,000 computers to hurt Amazon and there is a growing feeling among hacktivists that it could happen. If it does, the retailer could lose millions of dollars during the Christmas season.[guardian.co.uk]

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Identified as the largest joint, bilateral field training exercise in Japan between the two nations , Keen Sword 11 was designed to allow the two militaries to practice and evaluate the coordination procedures and interoperability elements required to effectively and mutually respond to the defense of Japan, or to a regional crisis or contingency situation in the Asia-Pacific region.[pacaf.af.mil]

Hi-res pics here, here, here and here ...

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A store clerk armed with nothing more than a feather duster fights off a man with a machete.[abc2news.com]

Ahhh, your feather-duster technique is very good ... or I'm just an incredible wussy ...

The creation of an Atlantic City Casino District, a major staff reduction at the Casino Control Commission and elimination of much bureaucratic red tape were among the bills supported by the committee.[northjersey.com]

"FIRE at WILL, gentlemen!" Rafix wrote in an online message. "Enjoy the epic battle of glory!"[latimes.com]

To make matters worse, WikiLeaks has been surprisingly slow in providing promised financial support, and is delivering less financial support that originally promised, Paterson said. WikiLeaks did not respond to requests via Twitter for comment in time for this report.[cbsnews.com]

Here are a couple of very similar sounding vacuum-oriented rules for life with very different meanings:

1) Don't be a sucker!

2) Try not to suck!

The poll also found that 59 percent of Americans think those who publish secret U.S. documents should be prosecuted, while 31 percent said the publication of secrets is protected under the First Amendment guarantee of a free press.[miamiherald.com]

It's amazing how quick we are, as a people, to sell our souls to the devil ...

Putting someone like Assange in jail for publishing documents he did not himself steal, on the other hand, is exactly the kind of thing that First Amendment makes difficult.[time.com]

2. Secrets are only as secure as the least trusted person who knows them. The more people who know a secret, the more likely it is to be made public.[schneier.com]

This season, Mexico warned, visitors from the United States should travel in convoys to help avoid the kidnappings and shoot-outs. Feliz Navidad?[latimes.com]

The mother of a U.S. teen turned hit man for a Mexican drug cartel appeared in federal court in San Diego on Friday on a charge that she was in the United States illegally.[reuters.com]

The Indian Navy has decommissioned one of her oldest units, INS Vagli in a solemn ceremony at the Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam today, 09 Dec 10.[frontierindia.net]

Firefox and Opera have both disabled support for HTML5 WebSockets in the latest builds of their respective browsers. The move comes on the heels of a protocol vulnerability that could leave thousands of sites harboring malicious code. [Wired.com]

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This would be pretty horrendous ...

The county prosecutor's office received a warrant request, and it was under review, according to spokesman Mark Bernardi, who didn't expect a charging decision to be made Friday. The employee was being held. Police said Cannon was reportedly causing a disturbance Thursday afternoon at the restaurant on the city's east side and tried to hit the worker, who swung back.

The fact that he's being held isn't good. Sound's like he didn't have much choice ...

(Hat-tip to Reprisal)

Travis Boersma of Grants Pass, who runs the company, told the Eugene Register-Guard for a story last week that he gave the employee paid leave for a month and offered him counseling to get over the shock of shooting somebody. He also said the worker would be welcomed back. And other employees at the kiosk got a week off with pay.

One of the defectors behind Openleaks is Daniel Domschelt-Berg, who quit Wikileaks after Assange released Iraq War documents without thoroughly redacting names. He told Assange in an online chat obtained by Wired: "You are not anyone's king or god, And you're not even fulfilling your role as a leader right now. A leader communicates and cultivates trust in himself. You are doing the exact opposite. You behave like some kind of emperor or slave trader."

Let's switch gears for a minute to the drug war in Mexico, where more than 30,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderón came into office and the annual body count goes up every December. Granted, most of the people being tortured, kidnapped or killed have historically been criminals involved in the drug trade. However, that's changing. We're seeing more and more innocent bystanders, including children, being gunned down as collateral damage.

The Bulava (SS-NX-30) three-stage liquid and solid propellant SLBM carries up to 10 MIRV warheads and has a range of over 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles).

By practicing Standing Stake, you can also develop a sense of “peng energy”.” This is an expansive feeling that should be present throughout all movements in Tai Chi.

On November 20, Russia and Nato drew a line under two decades of friction since the end of the Cold War and declared a new era of “strategic partnership”. But what grounds are there to suppose that this can deliver a genuine transformation of relations? Several factors underpin this, but one word is paramount: pragmatism.

Three police officers were killed in Juarez on Wednesday when their patrol unit was ambushed, according to the El Paso Times.

In what Japan said was an unprecedented show of force two 'submarine hunter' Ilyushin-38 jets from Russia's Pacific Fleet circled the biggest joint US-Japanese military exercise in history for several hours in an apparent attempt to gather intelligence.

US defence major Boeing has started work on the first P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft for the Indian Navy.

The new policy expands a previous rule in place at UPS Customer Centers to include all retail outlets. Customers without a pre-printed shipping label will have to display an ID, Atlanta-based UPS said in a statement today.

It appears no one is exempt from the Mexican violence sweeping the nation, not even kindergartens. The border town of Juarez, Mexico has experienced threats and attacks on teachers and students over the past month, because teachers have refused to hand over payments for “protection”.

"You have to have some external device to cause that initiation," he said. "That's what the advanced imaging technology machine will pick up: any anomaly outside of the body."

It can't think of any reason why a timer wouldn't overcome this limitation ...

Wikileaks roundup

As part of their attempt to blacken WikiLeaks and Assange, pundit commentary over the weekend has tried to portray Assange’s exposure of classified materials as very different from — and far less laudable than — what Daniel Ellsberg did in releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Ellsberg strongly rejects the mantra “Pentagon Papers good; WikiLeaks material bad.”

U.S. agencies have warned some employees that reading the classified State Department documents released by WikiLeaks puts them at risk of losing their jobs. But what about students considering jobs with the federal government? Do they jeopardize their chances by reading WikiLeaks?

Will I break the law if I host or mirror the US diplomatic cables that have been published by Wikileaks? If I view or download them? If I write a news story based on them? These are just a few of the questions we've been getting here at EFF, particularly in light of many US companies' apparent fear to do any business with Wikileaks (with a few notable exceptions).

Plus some pushback:

Anonymous’ DDoS tool has an unusual twist, according to Lyon, incorporating features that allow members to connect to the botnet voluntarily, rather than mobilizing hijacked zombie machines. It is called LOIC, which stands for “Low Orbit Ion Cannon,” and evolved from an open source website load-testing utility. A new feature called Hivemind was added, which connects LOIC to anonops for instructions, and allows members to add their machines to an attack at will. 

Facebook's response, from Andrew Noyes, the company's D.C. based Manager of Public Policy Communications: "The Wikileaks Facebook Page does not violate our content standards nor have we encountered any material posted on the page that violates our policies."

And we mustn't forget the "poison pill" ...

Once your leader has been compared to a Bond villain, you might as well go all the way, right? A few months back, Wikileaks released a giant file that's been referred to as the "thermonuclear" option, should the organization's existence be threatened: A huge compendium of some of the most damaging secrets Wikileaks has collected, protected with an intense brand of secure encryption--for use as insurance. With Assange now in police custody on sex crimes charges, the "poison pill" is on everyone's mind.

The sale of Resorts Atlantic City, the nation's first casino to open outside Nevada, was finalized on Monday.

Not really Security-related but ...

The United States is forever proclaiming its war on drugs. But if you want to know what a real drug war is, behold Mexico. The scale of the casualties (more then 28,000 in four years) and disruption to daily life is difficult for most in the United States to grasp. Mexico's version of our Health and Human Services secretary told the Los Angeles Times he worried that his nation is on the cusp of becoming one where "killing someone can be seen as normal or natural."

False Start essentially cuts out one set of the back-and-forth conversation needed to set up a secure channel between a Web browser and Web pages. Such secure channels use technology called SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security), and a Web site using it shows an address beginning with HTTPS rather than HTTP.

France will offer India a bigger version of its Scorpene conventional diesel-electric (SSK) submarine for a $5 billion (Rs 30,000 crore) contract for six submarines. This is the world's largest order for conventional submarines.

But despite the controversy surrounding WikiLeaks, Bahnhof, unlike webhost Amazon, online financial services company PayPal and DNS (Domain Name System) provider EveryDNS - all US-based organisations - says it will stand by WikiLeaks as it has not broken any laws.

How does the old saying go? Oh, yes! "A friend will help you move, but a REAL friend will help you move bodies ... "

Just ask Rolando Negrin, a Transportation Security Administration screener who passed through one of those new "whole body image" scanners last May as part of his training for airport security. His co-workers claimed to have gotten a look at his "junk" and mocked him mercilessly, evidently repeatedly asking, "What size are you?" and referring to him as "little angry man."  In the end, calling it "psychological torture," he insisted that he snapped, which in his case meant that he went after a co-worker, baton first, demanding an apology.

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Once the burglar sensed the restaurant was empty, the surveillance camera also captured him dropping from the ceiling, into a storage room behind the bar, where Hogan keeps money in a safe. The burglar opened it, stole $5,000 and ran out the back door.

If it really only took 'a few seconds' to compromise the safe, then either the safe wasn't locked or it was an inside job. That just isn't enough time to open a safe without already knowing that the combo was pre-spun and ready for the last digit or that it wouldn't actually be locked to begin with ...

After honing their skills in practical shooting for purposes of self-defense, the country’s judges and prosecutors are now being trained on security protection driving to evade ambuscades while cruising on the road.

Don’t think I’m dismissing the importance of these cases. If the right sides win, they’ll bring the power of legal protection to those who need it in these relationships — sex workers and sister-wives.

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As onlookers started frantically trying to wave down the train, an off-duty police officer heard all the shouting and screams.  He ran to the platform where he saw the situation, jumped down on the tracks and dragged the man to safety with less than one second to spare.

Admittedly, the train was stopping anyway, but it does show a certain amount of wallendas ...

A key corporate credit ratings firm doubts that changing Atlantic City's gambling rules, including allowing smaller casinos and betting on sports and via the Internet, would help end the city's four-year slump.

While millions of Americans from Boston to Seattle were having trouble selling their homes and home prices were plummeting, the proximity of gunshots across the border has proved an unusual boon to El Paso.

The data leakage problem comes when a customer deletes their drive and then a new customer creates a new drive. The areas on the physical disks used for the old and new drives can overlap. Its therefore possible for the new customer to try and image off previously written data from other customers.

Fairly crunchy, but addresses the cloud storage issues and what that particular cloud vendor is doing about it ...

Mobile handset maker Nokia Corp. (NOK, NOK1V.HE) has set up servers in India, a move that will allow local security agencies to monitor the Finnish company's enterprise email services in the country.

However ...

" ... [Indian] security agencies are not able to intercept and monitor the communications" made through BlackBerry's corporate e-mail and messenger chatting services, Pilot said, adding that the government is still "engaged with Research in Motion to find a solution."

Iran's navy plans to launch assembly lines for submarines capable of covering long distances across the ocean and to deploy more warships in the Persian Gulf. 

New START

Then, of course, he and the Republican leadership decided there might be enough time — if they could get their tax cuts.

Lately, any time the Dems are in a hurry, the peasants are about to get screwed ...

START II forbids each country from converting the hardware that was once used to launch nuclear missiles, either from land or submarine, into an interceptor that can be used in a missile defense system.

No more SDI ...

One prominent warning came in 2008, after someone inserted a USB "thumb drive" into a secure Pentagon computer. The drive contained a malicious virus that spread quickly and damaged thousands of files.

The action/adventure film THE WARRIOR’S WAY opens today in the US.

I  saw this today. Pretty good in a cartoon-ish sort of way ...

In the package of major pending legislation to reinvigorate New Jersey’s principal private gambling industries, horse racing and casinos, one bill stands out for its incoherent surrender of the New Jersey casino regulatory system.

They strike me as rather over-regulated ...

The president is in a hurry for the same reason he has been in a hurry before: he knows that if his vaunted treaty is given a thorough review by the Senate, it will likely be rejected.

Another view on New START ...

“WHO is your enemy?” It was a fine Beijing day in early summer this year. In the seminar room on the campus of Peking University one of a delegation of visiting American academics posed the question to Wang Jisi, dean of the School of International Studies. There was a moment’s silence. Mr Wang hesitated before looking up and replying: “Most Chinese would say the US is the enemy.”

Broadly speaking, the worldview behind Wikileaks is a demand for complete transparency in the actions of government, corporations and, ultimately one presumes, individuals. A planet without secrets. How feasible is that?

The Obama administration is moving into high gear in putting gun-control advocates into important government positions.

Lately, I’ve been attending a lot of journalism conferences on the “drug war” in Mexico. Border reporting is becoming war reporting (at least on the Mexican side of the border), which requires a whole other set of reporting skills, nerve synapses and courage that I scarcely possess.

India's first ballistic missile submarine the INS Arihant will go on "deterrent patrol" or sail with a full complement of nuclear-tipped missiles when she is commissioned in 2012.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the killing this week of a physicist working on the country’s nuclear program was a “terrorist” operation.

Hmmm ... struck me as a fairly sanitary assassination that just happened to use explosives ...

Not too long ago the business partner of a very expensive empty-hand combatives instructor contacted me. He wanted me to go into business with them. His contention was — since I only deal with nonlethal situations and they only deal with lethal situations — our two systems would enhance each other nicely.

It's always refreshing to read some 'Animal' ...

This is the first I've heard of this, but it's another example of why I say that everyone should remember: Today's the day, EVERY day!

All this is nothing new. Troops have been taking ability enhancing drugs for nearly a century.

Troops acting on information obtained from several captured drug hitmen dug out 18 bodies from 11 graves in the town of Palomas in Chihuahua state, just across from Columbus, New Mexico, police said.

New START

The real point of ratification is to help Russia continue to masquerade as a great power.

Interesting ... if true ...

The quantity of nuclear warheads is astounding, with the report indicating as many as 1,000 of the approximately 30-year-old 100-kiloton W76 warheads are being transported from Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor near Seattle to the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, nearly 1,800 miles away, for updates that'll extend the life of the weapon by 30 years.

I'd be interested in hearing that they'd swung by Frenchman Flats with a couple post-upgrade units and made sure they do, in fact, still work ...

In January, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner called the charges "absurd," while Israel observed its usual "no comment" policy. I expect this pattern to continue, because the CIA is reluctant to admit complicity in targeted assassinations, while the Mossad isn't only reluctant to admit participation but even to deny it.

“Why in the world do we have TSA examiners who are groping 6-year-old children flying home to see grandma for the holidays? Why in the world are we acting like we don’t have intelligence assets and common sense?

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He says that he waited outside for eight hours and then got pinned against a door and shoved to the ground when the doors burst open with eager consumers surging to snatch up Christmas bargains.

It doesn't say whether he was one of the forty people that just cut in line at the front, or not ...

"There were more than 14 hours of videotape to be reviewed, and Mr. Flores was not always available to talk to," Sheridan said. "Also, there was the matter of due process. But when the November incident took place, we went back to the June incident."

Constructive notice ... that's going to be a problem ...

A white man who pleaded guilty to six robberies in Ohio used a black mask so lifelike that police initially arrested a black man for one of the crimes, authorities said Tuesday.

Richard's Second Natural Law of Security: It's easier to be invisible than it is to be invincible ... even doing crimes ...

They're handing out flyers with a simple message: Don't help the cartels, don't give them places to hide, back the Mexican military and help protect Mexico instead.

It should read "... so you, too, can join the ranks of headless bridge decorations." I think passing out guns and ammo would be a lot more effective.

Hermila Garcia Baeza, a lawyer who had been police chief for about a month in Meoqui, a town of 21,000 inhabitants, was shot to death in a highway ambush, officials said.

Suddenly the slum and others like it have become battlefields in Brazil's struggle to make Rio de Janeiro safe for the 2014 World Cup of soccer and the 2016 Olympics. Security for visitors was one of the things Brazil promised in its successful bid to host the games.

Who knows whether this article is true, factual, slanted, etc., but for the sake of argument we can take it at face value. 

A gubmint that turns the communities of their poorest citizens into a war zone so that they can can eventually host bigger sports events, probably at the behest of its wealthiest citizens, may need to stop and consider what effect that created violence will have on those citizens. Might not those citizens take sufficient offense to this gubmint action, due to collateral damage that the recipients find less acceptable than the gubment apparently did, that they decide to to take steps to inflict punishment on those responsible? Furthermore, due to the asymmetrical force projection capabilities of the two parties, might not whatever form that punishment takes end up being directed at the weak part of the offending edifice instead of the strong part of it, i.e. at the wealthy citizens instead of the gubmint itself?

As a Security Dude, it isn't that rare to hear statements like "It all started when he hit me back.", but thinking that way usually results in getting to have the opportunity to learn the lesson at least one more time.

TAR

In the past week, Homeland Security has seized control over more than 70 websites linked to Internet piracy.

Hmmm, the beginning of a 'torrent arms race' ...