Exclusive: Office of Nation's Top Spy Inadvertently Reveals Key to Classified
National Intel Budget
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| The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the highest
| intelligence agency in the country that oversees all federal
| intelligence agencies, appears to have inadvertently released
| the keys to that number in an unclassified PowerPoint presentation
| now posted on the website of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
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http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/the_spy_who_billed_me/2007/06/exclusive_offic.html
E-discovery rules add summer IT work for schools
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| September 2005 updates to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)
| require that electronic documents -- including e-mail and perhaps
| even instant messaging logs -- be available as evidence in civil
| court cases.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9024018&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/yv9qc3
Yahoo blasts China on free speech
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| China should not punish people for expressing their political
| views on the Internet, Yahoo Inc. said Monday, a day after the
| mother of a Chinese reporter announced she was suing the U.S.
| company for helping officials imprison her son.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/06/11/yahoo.china.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech
Be alert. Secret code, IE7/WGA, and obscure file formats are indeed being
(mis)used to serve governments, take away freedoms, and learn about people
(spyware).
Have you seen the privacy accusation against Google? It's all over the news,
but some suspect that Microsoft is behind this attack on Google.
Last week:
Microsoft's Web user research in China draws concern
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| But Reporters Without Borders said in its statement that, "These
| technologies could eventually lead to the creation of programst
| hat could identify 'subversive' citizens. This is obviously not
| Microsoft's intention. But we believe it is unacceptable to
| carry out this kind of sensitive research in a country such
| as China where 50 people are currently in prison because of
| what they posted online."
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsofts-web-user-research-china/story.aspx?guid=%7BECDD94D2%2D34D8%2D4D0E%2D861B%2D292B31568732%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/34ljd6
Related:
New software can identify you from your online habits
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| That is the spectre raised by new research conducted by Microsoft.
| The computing giant is developing software that could accurately
| guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location,
| by analysing telltale patterns in your web browsing history. But
| experts say the idea is a clear threat to privacy - and may be
| illegal in some places.
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http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19426046.400&feedId=being-human_rss20
http://tinyurl.com/2lrazk
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| In relation to the issue of sharing technical API and protocol
| information used throughout Microsoft products, which the
| states were seeking, Allchin alleged that releasing this
| information would increase the security risk to consumers.
|
| "It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is
| also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into
| computing networks. Computers, including many running Windows
| operating systems, are used throughout the United States
| Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United
| States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin
Microsoft Shuts Down Netscan (Usenet groups Analytics Tool)
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| Microsoft Netscan system has been scanning and collection activity
| of all newsgroups since 1999 but unfortunately, things are about
| to change.
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http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/05/microsoft-shuts-down-netscan-usenet.html
Microsoft could be teaching police to hack Vista
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| Microsoft may begin training the police in ways to break the
| encryption built into its forthcoming Vista operating system.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2150555/microsoft-teaching-police-hack
UK holds Microsoft security talks
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| "UK officials are talking to Microsoft over fears the new version of
| Windows could make it harder for police to read suspects' computer files."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm
Data Protection Commissioner criticizes search of private PCs online
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| "In the case of a search via the Internet a police officer covertly,
| without the person knowing about it, accesses a person's computer."
| During such an operation he or she might copy data and obtain all
| kinds of personal documents; the police officer was acting as a "state
| hacker," so to speak. Mr. Schaar observed. "Such an approach is in
| conflict with the legal obligation to protect the core of
| individuals' privacy," Mr. Schaar stated emphatically.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/82529/from/rss09
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