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]

Also:

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 ...

India will get lightweight anti-submarines torpedoes to arm the eight P-8I maritime patrol aircraft it is buying from the US, with the Obama administration notifying the potential sale to the US Congress on Tuesday.[indiatimes.com]

Imagine yourself in that pharmacy.  You are facing an obvious threat from a man with a gun.  You cannot retreat because the gunman is too close.  You have no weapon, because the State of New York has made it extremely difficult to posses any sort of a weapon, and certainly not a gun.  Hence, your only means of self-defense is to plead for compassion from a soulless thug.  At that point, with your right to life materially impaired by the government restricting your right to self-defense, you simply die.[biggovernment.com]

Hoplophobia, the irrational fear of weapons, including firearms, is rampant and on the rise. It is an as of yet unclassified mental disorder that has been avoided for political reasons by the powerful left wing liberal American Psychiatric Association—the keepers of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—the DSM-IV. Many anti-gun rights, pro-gun control, gun banners tend to be hoplophobic. That is, they project their own mistrust and fear of their own anger onto most everyone else.[humanevents.com]

Police say they organized a flash mob and then went on a crime spree.[myfoxboston.com]

Apparently, they thought that flash mobs were immune to police intervention ...they were mistaken ...

“Rule No. 1 is, don’t open suspicious links,” Rasch said. “Rule No. 2 is, see Rule No. 1. Rule No. 3 is, see Rules 1 and 2.”[bloomberg.com]

So true ...

At least 11 people, including two transit police officers, were gunned down in separate incidents over the weekend in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's murder capital, officials said.[foxnews.com]

According to RIA Novosti, citing a source in the Russian military-industrial complex, this year's first test launch of the submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) Bulava will be implemented on Tuesday, June 28.[newsbcm.com]

In reality there are terrorists in prisons all over the world, to include America. They have friends who want to break them out of prison, and the techniques that worked in the past perhaps, will not work now or in the future. Another reality is that if there is an incident at a prison, there is a good chance that there will be another incident going on somewhere else (in that facility) that will draw resources and create more confusion.[corrections.com]

An interesting discussion of post-9/11 hostage negotiation considerations ...

The streamlined screening procedures affecting the nation's more than 75,000 airline pilots also may help lead to lines moving more briskly for passengers going through security. At least officials hope that will happen.[baltimoresun.com]

This is likely exactly the opposite of what they should be doing. The crews should experience the most harsh treatment just so the populace in general will go along with it. It's like they want to have their whole department dissolved so they can go out and get jobs at the local Circle K ...

The Borders store was open for business on Sunday. When 9NEWS was inside the store shortly after it opened, there were customers were inside checking out books, buying coffee and carrying on as normal.[9news.com]

This is the proper response to such things ...

Delia Francis Soto was arrested for two counts of terrorism, said Sacramento Metro Fire Asst. Chief Scott Cockrum.[news10.net]

Hmmm ... no word on what she was trying to get everyone to submit to by starting the fires ... seems more like a firebug than a terrorist ...

Logitech Alert can even send motion-activated alerts to your email.  Anyone walks in where they’re not supposed to be — bam! — you get an emailed alert.  Then you open up the Logitech Alert app and view exactly what’s happening. All without professional installation or service fees.[geardiary.com]

I'm not sure if it's there yet, but it does seem to be on the way ...

One could make the argument that it's easier to be an anonymous group that attacks a target rather than the target defending against cyber attacks (the old "we have to be right every time while they only have to be right once" argument).[ibtimes.com]

It's cheaper to be invisible than it is to be invincible (Richard's Second Natural Law of Security) ...

About 2,800 soldiers were deployed to 22 of 43 cities in the state, which borders Texas and is among the most violent in the country. The show of force came as President Felipe Calderon defended his drug war strategy in the face of mounting criticism from activists.[cnn.com]

Just because it's never worked in the past is no reason to think that it won't work this time ...

A Royal Navy submarine commander has been accused of killing five French fishermen by accidentally dragging their boat underwater.[dailymail.com]

It would likely be really fast and you'd be going WTF!!! every moment of it ...

As more companies conduct global business, the need to monitor global risks rises.[bigfatfinanceblog.com]

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In addition to my normal work-load, I am taking a week-long class.

Sorry ...

In April, Imperial Palace was found liable for assault, battery and false imprisonment in its handling of a gambler who had complained about a faulty slot machine, resulting in a $250,000 judgment against the casino.[vegasinc.com]

Screwing up can be costly ...

An Australian 32 year old female blackjack dealer, croupier and table supervisor is suing Casino Canberra, alleging that her employer has been negligent in protecting her safety and further destroyed her already unstable mental health.[blackjackchamp.com]

Posted mostly for the cool pic ...

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, has joined two other Texas Republicans to sponsor a bill that would create a federal definition of cross-border violence. The bill would also require the Department of Homeland Security to develop ways to quantify border crime and to regularly report that data to Congress.[canseco.house.gov]

NEW DELHI: A government panel set up to examine security threats regarding 15 forms of communications, Gmail , BlackBerry services, Nokia's email offerings and Skype , among others, that cannot be tracked by law enforcement agencies here has recommended that no service be banned purely on the grounds that it cannot be monitored.[indiatimes.com]

The device looks like something straight out of the movies, but in reality is a futuristic new tool that may be the next step in self-defense.[cbn.com]

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It's way scarier when your vic is trying to kill you back ...

One man climbed onto the bonnet of the car and slammed a brick through the windscreen. Dozens of the others desperately tried to get to the suspected criminals.[dailymail.co.uk]

When the populace is willing to fight the cops to get at the bad guys, you know that ... uhh ..."stuff" has officially gotten real ...! The last line is precious. "A deep social study is required to find out why people have acted like this." What they need is a deep social study to find out why you don't understand why people have acted like this, because it is obvious. They are pissed about the corruption and bumbling incompetence.

The company Cellcrypt released an application on Tuesday for mobile phones running Android that encrypts voice calls, addressing increasing concern that voice traffic over cellular networks could be intercepted with off-the-shelf equipment.[pcworld.com]

As they say - "Faster, please" ...

With millions of implantable medical devices in the U.S. alone, and some 300,000 more people receiving them worldwide every year, the need to protect these wireless devices from being hacked is increasingly urgent.[cnet.com]

The U.S. Navy faces a fundamental dilemma: It needs more submarines, but the overall defense budget required to build those submarines is headed south. How should it square this circle?[aei.org]

The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website but did not get behind a firewall into a more sensitive portion of the network, Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms, said.[guardian.co.uk]

I wonder why it's news, then ...

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If you're trying to make friends and your targets start to encircle you, you may have already made your last friend ...

On January 20, 2010, while tending to his lawn, Childs intentionally sprayed a lawn chemical on Pena’s Ford Excursion.  Although Pena didn’t notice the damage for a few days, she was able to review the surveillance video to witness the defendant spraying the chemical on her car.[fortbendnow.com]

While he's in jail, you may want to look into a carry pistol ... it doesn't sound like he's the type to live and learn ...

We live in a world where data rules. Sharing your files, from docs to pictures to videos is as easy as breathing. But we've all got some stuff that we'd like to keep to ourselves.[pcmag.com]

That’s not vandalism; it’s domestic terrorism. And in a free society, it cannot be justified or tolerated. We trust that the authorities are treating this case in that light.[thenewstribune.com]

Your being really powerless to prevent it doesn't make it terrorism ...

The recent online intrusion into International Monetary Fund servers may have been the work of malicious hackers working for a foreign government, according to online reports.[pcworld.com]

The RoboCop look is coming nationwide, a law enforcement supplier says, and Johnson County deputies are on the cutting edge as they test cameras they wear on their ears.[kansascity.com]

Newspapers are piling up on the stoop, shrubs block the windows, no lights come on when the sun goes down and, to top it all off, postings on Facebook show you enjoying a tropical getaway.[silive.com]

It's cheaper to be invisible than invincible ...

Nine current and former executive security officers and a former driver for Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson have sued the company and the billionaire owner, claiming violations of overtime law and other rules.[therepublic.com]

This will probably not increase their employability ...

Thirty-six Transportation Security Administration workers at Honolulu Airport, including the top director, were given termination notices today, and 12 more were suspended because they allegedly were not screening checked-in baggage for explosives as their jobs require.[staradvertiser.com

It goes on to warn, "do not make the mistake of challenging Anonymous. Do not make the mistake of believing you can behead a headless snake. If you slice off one head of Hydra, ten more heads will grow in its place. If you cut down one Anon, ten more will join us purely out of anger at your trampling of dissent."[time.com]

Don't fvck with the Wongs Anons ...

The recent high-profile hacking of Skype could have been prevented - or at least delayed - by better software protection says Russian copy protection software specialist StarForce Technologies.[industrytoday.co.uk]

Maybe ...

The Australian understands the entire fleet of six Collins-class submarines cannot be put to sea despite the navy's claim that two of them remain officially "operational".[theaustralian.com]

It turns out Citibank was hacked in early May. Wait, you hadn't heard? Me neither. Well, that's just because Citibank chose to keep quiet about it until now.[time.com]

Also:

Most U.S. banks currently allow customers to easily access their accounts online or on mobile devices without jumping through too many security hurdles to confirm their identities.[reuters.com]
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Blammo. Sony has just confirmed that 37,500 Sony Pictures visitors have had their passwords, emails, and other potentially identifying details stolen from the Sony Pictures website.[crunchgear.com]

Taxpayers could save nearly $39 million annually if Los Angeles International Airport replaced its federal security screeners with a privatized force, according to a report by the chair of the House Transportation Committee.[contracostatimes.com]

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It looks like an accidental discharge and he just missed blowing his other hand off ...

In a move reminiscent of Soviet style repression, the FSB claimed the "uncontrolled use of these services could lead to a large-scale threat to Russian security."[rian.ru]

Or, more likely, to Russian government security ...

The Fukushima disaster's dramatic demonstration of how nuclear plants are vulnerable to cooling-system failure could "awaken terrorist interest" in attacking such plants, says a new joint study by US and Russian experts on the threat of nuclear terrorism.[csmonitor.com]

On the plus side, it's way more likely that someone less restrained than us would decide to exterminate Islam ...