Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser. That means even if a user thinks they have cleared their computer of tracking objects, they most likely have not.[wired.com]

The modernization and recent blue water operations of the Chinese navy are altering the naval power balance in the Pacific.[timesdispatch.com]

With India grappling with a depleting underwater combat arm, coupled with both Pakistan and China fast bolstering their own fleets, the Navy has appointed a senior officer to oversee and fast-track all submarine acquisition plans.[indiatimes.com]

As a submarine moves, it churns the oceans around it, creating an easily detected disturbance. Could a high-tech mesh cloak keep the surrounding waters calm?[theatlantic.com]

One of five people charged in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent admitted Tuesday that the motivation behind the ambush killing was to rob the agent's night vision equipment.[sacbee.com]

If not for a computer scientist’s hobby of collecting old telegraph codebooks, a crucial chapter in modern cryptography might have been lost to history.[nytimes.com]

Linux: Lightweight Portable Security (LPS-Public) is a bootable live CD designed by the Department of Defense so that government employees can access data from a public computer without worrying about security violations.[lifehacker.com]

Terrorists kill for two basic reasons: They want to disrupt and destroy institutions or symbols of a political order they despise and they want to intimidate people not touched by the attack directly.[cnn.com]

There is a third reason: they long for what Nietzsche referred to as 'the happiness of the knife'.

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The U.S. Department of Justice took a thinly veiled swipe at an online civil liberties group that's arguing a Colorado woman can't be forced to decrypt her laptop for police inspection.

Eleven years after 118 submariners met a grisly death at the bottom of the ocean in the Kursk, a British team has developed the most advanced underwater rescue system in the world. Andrew Preston watches them go into action[dailymail.co.uk]

China is following a two-prong strategy with its impressive maritime build-up. The West is making a mistake if it underestimates the implications.[the-diplomat.com]

In a recent opinion, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli affirmed the rights of concealed-handgun permit holders to possess firearms on campus despite an apparent conflict with University of Virginia policy.[timesdispatch.com]

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Pretty brazen ... of course, there's almost no chance of armed resistance thereabouts ...

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From Oslo: Not sure how long this will be up as it likely violates the relevant TOS ...

A federal jury says TASER International must pay $10 million in the March 2008 death of 17-year-old Darryl Turner after being shocked by a CMPD officer. This is the biggest jury award against the company.[foxcharlotte.com]

Dangerous malware links in Google's search results will bring up a warning as Google combats Search Engine Poisoning. Google hopes to help searchers update their antivirus software as Cisco Systems reports phishing attacks are getting more dangerous -- and profitable. An analyst warned, however, that hackers could exploit Google's warning.[sci-tech-today.com]

The rise of the Web as a communication platform as well as "hacktivism" have given whistle-blowing a makeover, and enterprises with lax security need to step up their defenses or risk putting themselves out of business.[zdnetasia.com]

Brazil has begun building four diesel-powered submarines as part of a 2008 agreement with France that includes the future construction of Latin America’s first nuclear submarine.[washingtonpost.com]

A senior Iranian army commander says enemies are amazed by Iran's huge naval achievements, emphasizing that the presence of Iran's frigates in international waters has caught them off guard.[presstv.com]

Mostly, we're amazed that they float ...

An academic team formed in a partnership between the University of Calgary and SAIT Polytechnic has used quantum technology to come up with an unbreakable method of transmitting and storing data.[vancouversun.com]

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrapped up a four-day visit to China with a rare visit to a submarine base on an island off the country's eastern coast, a day after being given access for the first time to a Su-27, one of China's most advanced operational fighter jets.[wsj.com]

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Why would anyone go to a club like this ...?

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Defendants can't be forced into providing law enforcement authorities with the encryption key to their laptops, or it becomes self-incrimination, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argued in a court brief filed in a mortgage fraud criminal case.[eweek.com]

The result of this case will likely have serious implications for data security in general ...

USB flash drives are easy to lose if you don't keep track of them.[cnet.com]

I got to have one of these ...

Either way, Muhammad could become the first person sentenced to death in the U.S. for an act of terrorism — even if that is not the charge — since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.[latimes.com]

It would be interesting to see what definition of terrorism they're using. Shooting a couple of people and then saying you did it as terrorism doesn't make it terrorism.

It was January 2010, and investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency had just completed an inspection at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in central Iran, when they realized that something was off within the cascade rooms where thousands of centrifuges were enriching uranium.[arstechnica.com]

The Colorado prosecution of a woman accused of a mortgage scam will test whether the government can punish you for refusing to disclose your encryption passphrase.[cnet.com]

If someone gets physical access to your system (it's stolen, say, or a computer repair technician is snooping around) then the best internet security suite will be no use at all, and there's only one way to ensure you're protected: encryption.[pcadvisor.co.uk]

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So ... how do you decide?

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In case you still think it's a good idea to 'shoot in' and 'take them to the ground' during a real-world fight, consider this ...

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The 18-year-old man was shot in the torso on June 18 after he left his apartment complex in the 8400 block of Langdon Avenue and happened to run into a tagger who had just started vandalizing the front of the building, according to the 50 second surveillance footage.[contracostatimes.com]

Wow ... broad daylight and everything ... too bad he didn't get to shoot back ...

Hacker groups that attack or steal — some estimates say there are as many as 6,000 of such groups online with about 50,000 "bad actors" around the world drifting in and out of them — are a threat, but the goals, methods, effectiveness of these groups varies widely.[netwrokworld.com]

Can't tell the players without a program? Here's one ...

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Rage, revenge and a baseball bat led to a horrifying attack at a Cleveland convenience store.[the33tv.com]

All together now: Don't bring a baseball bat to a car fight!

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Video released by the Atlantic County prosecutorThursday shows people running for their lives as a man shoots ontothe Boardwalk just hours after Atlantic City’s Fourth of Julycelebration ended.

It's hard to see, but the shooter appears to be a guy in a black shirt that is with the gang that goes diagonal across the street to head the other group off. The person of interest (wearing the white wife-beater and white long pants) appear to be retreating ...

Taiwan has testfired for the first time a locally developed submarine-launched missile designed to counter the threat of China's fast-expanding navy, a report Thursday.[AFP]

The Transportation Security Administration on Wednesday urged foreign security agencies to ramp up security after receiving intelligence reports that terrorists might try to surgically implant explosives in the bodies of suicide bombers.[usatoday.com]

Where do they think they're going with this ...

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This is funny on so many levels (I especially like when a perp's g-bloomers fall down around his ankles in mid-crime) ...

Mexican and international human-rights organizations say the Mexican military has often planted drugs or evidence on citizens in an effort to mark up arrests and convictions. Gustavo de la Rosa, a prominent human-rights lawyer in Ciudad Juarez, has said he knows of 70 such cases in the city alone.[latimes.com]

To maintain privacy while surfing the Web, you need to encrypt the data you exchange with websites and mask where that data is coming from. Enter the Tor Network, a free service maintained by the nonprofit Tor Project and a worldwide network of volunteers dedicated to keeping the Internet free and private.[pcworld.com]

"The facts of the case showed that InTown was blatantly ignoring the safety of its customers and employees," Ogden said. "You had a hotel where the office and its employees, including the manager, had been robbed four times at gunpoint in the six months leading up to the victims' attack. The manager was begging the corporate office for a security guard to protect the guests and employees of the hotel, and he was turned down."[clarionledger.com]

It would be interesting to see whether not having the S/O was a cost effective decision or not. Of course, the most likely fundamental problem was that the vics weren't ready to go when the time came. Their not being ready may have been a function of the legal environment but still, there's something perverse about suing a business for ALSO not being ready to go ...

Smith & Wesson Corp., announced that it is now shipping its new multi-caliber self-defense revolver, the Governor, along with the recently introduced Walther PPQ polymer pistol.[ammoland.com]

Besides a V6 as your engine, your car is very likely to soon be running Linux under the hood.[zdnet.com]

Interesting ...

A top lieutenant of one of Mexico's most feared drugs cartels, who was wanted in connection with the shooting of two U.S. customs officers, has been paraded in front of the media after being captured without a shot being fired.[dailymail.co.uk]

Dell has announced the launch of a file-based encryption solution.[scmagazineuk.com]

Last month, Russia had a successful test of its Bulava R-30 3M30 (SS-NX-30) SLBM (Sea Launched Ballistic Missile). Moreover, for the first time, a Bulava was launched from one of Borei class submarines it was designed for.[strategypage.com]

Imagine this: It's 2015. You walk into a store, buy your groceries and go to the cash counter. The store's barcode reader scans the pricing information on your purchases and flashes the total amount on a tiny device placed on the counter.[indiatimes.com]

Sounds like a lot of opportunity for mischief ...

The greatest current risk for iPhone owners is not viruses or malicious web pages, it is the danger that the phone might fall into someone else's hands. Although iPhones do offer elaborate security mechanisms, these mechanisms won't stand up to an imaginative hacker.[h-online.com]

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The H's in-depth article on iPhone security, iOpener, vividly demonstrates that you can't turn your iPhone into a tamper-proof data vault, but the following measures will make life considerably more difficult for thieves.[h-online.com]

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This is kinda clever ...

SUPPLY of Russian nuclear submarine to India is being expedited in order to further strengthen the naval arm of the Indian forces which should be a source of concern of Pakistan. Russian Navy Chief was quoted as saying on Friday that the submarine would be delivered by the end of this year.[pakobserver.net]

It's odd that they would do this as the Indian aren't really 'natural' allies of Russia. The Indians should probably take it apart and put it back together before they use it for anything important ...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia would boost its presence in the Arctic to protect its interests. "As far as our own geopolitical interests are concerned, we shall be protecting them firmly and consistently," Putin told a meeting of his ruling United Russia party in Yekaterinburg.[themoscowtimes.com]

Wonderful ...

An expansion of that doctrine, signed into law by Gov. Tom Corbett on Tuesday, eliminates the requirement to retreat and allows the use of deadly force outside of a home or business. The changes take effect Aug. 26.[goerie.com]

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Oopsy-daisy ...