Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 23, 2012 at 4:51:00 PM CET
Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring, Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday the authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move.
The decision in what is arguably the biggest Fourth Amendment case in the computer age, rejected the Obama administration’s position that American’s had no privacy in their public movements. The government had told the high court that it could affix GPS devices on the vehicles of all members of the Supreme Court, without a warrant.
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Topic: EU - on January 23, 2012 at 4:48:00 PM CET
EU's Data Protection Proposals Likely to Include 24-Hour Breach Notification
IDG News Service — After weeks of controversy, lobbying and concessions, the European Commission looks set to unveil its new data-protection proposals on Wednesday.
The reform of the 1995 Data Protection Directive is one of 2012's key pieces of legislation and has been dogged by more criticism than usual for a directive reform proposal. But over the weekend the commissioner responsible, Viviane Reding, gave more hints about its content during a speech in Munich.
csoonline.com Europe to Issue Tough Rules Protecting Internet Users’ Data
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 23, 2012 at 3:46:00 PM CET
Vienna 2.0 - Austrian banks
EUROPEAN banks have to raise enough capital to reach a 9% core Tier-1 ratio by June 30th. But they are also under pressure to keep providing credit. That puts west European banks with units in central Europe in a quandary: whether to pull back on lending there to concentrate on home markets.
A withdrawal of this sort would hit the region hard. Credit growth in central Europe depends largely on three Austrian banks—Raiffeisen Bank International, Erste Bank and Bank Austria, owned by Italy’s UniCredit—and a handful of other west European banks (see chart). A bevy of multilateral bigwigs descended on Vienna on January 16th to urge against “excessive and disorderly” deleveraging by lenders to the region.
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Topic: WEB - on January 23, 2012 at 2:14:00 PM CET
War on the Internet - Jacob Appelbaum
Electronic Frontiers Australia, in partnership with the Australian Greens, is proud to present: War on the Internet, an event featuring:
Jacob Appelbaum - leading computer security researcher and hacker Bernard Keane - 'Crikey' journalist and author Scott Ludlam - Senator for Western Australia and Greens spokesperson for Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy Suelette Dreyfus - author and researcher on whistleblowing
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Topic: Phone - on January 23, 2012 at 2:10:00 PM CET
Orbot: Tor on Android
Enhance your privacy, break through firewalls and communicate more safely.
Orbot is the official port of Tor to Android. Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.
STANDARD/NO ROOT:
- Works best with Firefox Mobile+ProxyMob Add-on
- Works with Orbot-enabled apps like Gibberbot (secure chat) and Orweb
ROOTED/SUPERUSER:
- Supports transparent proxying of all apps and services, or app-by-app basis
tor, tor project, proxy, socks, circumvention, firewall, gfw, filtering, surveillance, security, guardianproject, guardian project
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Topic: Davos - on January 23, 2012 at 1:41:00 PM CET
Join the igloo camp in Davos, Switzerland The resistance continues: At the WEF and worldwide!
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Topic: Davos - on January 23, 2012 at 1:30:00 PM CET
Swiss police press charges against anti-Davos protesters
Swiss police will charge more than 100 demonstrators with breaching the peace after they rallied in Bern Saturday to protest against the World Economic Forum that holds its annual meeting in Davos this week.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 23, 2012 at 11:34:00 AM CET
Raspberry Pi - An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!
While the developers behind the project are hoping to see Raspberry Pi systems used in educational settings or other environments where low price and power consumption could be killer features. But the applications for this device aren’t limited to education. This weekend the group is showing off a Raspberry Pi system running XBMC, a powerful media center application.
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Topic: WAR - on January 23, 2012 at 11:22:00 AM CET
Air Force Says Iran Didn't Down Drone
The U.S. Air Force recently announced that it knew what had caused one of its RQ-170 UAVs to crash in Iran two months ago. But the air force would not reveal details, except to say that Iran had nothing to do with the UAV crash landing. The air force did say that, because they had figured out what brought the RQ-170 down, they were continuing to fly RQ-170s on reconnaissance missions. The air force also revealed that the RQ-170 lost in Iran was being operated by the CIA.
The RQ-170 first showed up in Afghanistan and South Korea two years ago. The U.S. Air Force then admitted that this was a high altitude reconnaissance UAV developed in secret by Lockheed-Martin during the previous decade. It has a 12 meter (40 foot) wingspan. The RQ-170 is believed to be a replacement for some of the U-2s and a supplemental aircraft for the larger Global Hawk (which has a 42 meter wingspan.) RQ-170s have been operating over Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran for at least a year.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 23, 2012 at 11:20:00 AM CET
60 neue Eurofighter für Griechenland
Den Wunschzettel des griechischen Verteidigungsministeriums hat der Mann im Kopf: bis zu 60 Kampfflugzeuge vom Typ Eurofighter für vielleicht 3,9 Milliarden Euro. Französische Fregatten für über vier Milliarden, Patrouillenboote für 400 Millionen Euro; ebenso viel kostet die nötige Modernisierung der existierenden griechischen Flotte. Dann fehle es noch an Munition für die Leopard-Panzer, außerdem müssten zwei amerikanische Apache-Hubschrauber ersetzt werden. Ach ja, und dann würde man gerne deutsche U-Boote kaufen, Gesamtpreis: zwei Milliarden Euro.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 23, 2012 at 11:17:00 AM CET
Man faces five years for ‘God does not exist’ Facebook post
31-year-old Alexander Aan faces a maximum prison sentence of five years for posting “God does not exist” on Facebook. The civil servant was attacked and beaten by an angry mob of dozens who entered his government office at the Dharmasraya Development Planning Board on Wednesday. The Indonesian man was taken into protective police custody Friday since he was afraid of further physical assault.
The posting was made on a Facebook Page titled Ateis Minang (Minang Atheist), which Aan created. At the time of writing, it had over 1,700 Likes. Aan’s posting has been removed, but supporters on the Page are urging police to release him.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 23, 2012 at 11:15:00 AM CET
Police visit hero's house to give him an award...and sniff out cannabis farm
TWO police officers arrested a man for growing cannabis - moments after telling him he had won an award from their chief constable.
Adrian Mailer, 33, was hand-picked to get a commendation from Tayside Police boss Justine Curran for giving first aid to a nine-year-old boy who was injured in an accident.
But when officers went to his home to deliver the good news, they caught a whiff of Mailer's dope farm and arrested him.
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