Topic: NEWS english - on September 24, 2013 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
BP seeks to have Gulf Coast oil spill settlement payments suspended
BP on Monday renewed its request for a federal judge to temporarily suspend settlement payments to Gulf Coast residents and businesses affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, citing a scathing report on alleged misconduct within the court-supervised program.
In a court filing, BP attorneys said the report, issued earlier this month by the former FBI director Louis Freeh, shows the settlement program is plagued by problems that need to be fixed. US district judge Carl Barbier has already rejected two requests by BP to suspend settlement payments, but both rulings preceded Freeh's report, which was released on 6 September.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 24, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
How a Crypto ‘Backdoor’ Pitted the Tech World Against the NSA
In August 2007, a young programmer in Microsoft’s Windows security group stood up to give a five-minute turbo talk at the annual Crypto conference in Santa Barbara.
It was a Tuesday evening, part of the conference’s traditional rump session, when a hodge-podge of short talks are presented outside of the conference’s main lineup. To draw attendees away from the wine and beer that competed for their attention at that hour, presenters sometimes tried to sex up their talks with provocative titles like “Does Bob Go to Prison?” or “How to Steal Cars – A Practical Attack on KeeLoq” or “The Only Rump Session Talk With Pamela Anderson.”
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