Alberto Gonzalez has decreed that federal judges can't decide on matters of national policy, and though he didn't name any names he certainly made a couple of references that those in the know will get. In essence doing so is activism, and he's gone to great lengths to give his opinion of 'activist judges', which he seems to think are those who don't always agree with him.
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The Hotel Pennsylvania, home of 2600 Magazine's Hackers On Planet Earth conference will be ripped down to make room for an office tower some time before the year 2011.
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I don't really see how this is much of a surprise: The Pentagon and CIA have been pulling the credit records of US citizens without telling them.. Frankly, this is SOP these days. Anyone with $30us to spend can buy the credit history of anyone in this country without even a second glance. It's mostly legal to do so because information brokering companies are in the business of selling information, with the understanding (usuall enforced by a click-through agreement) that the information will not be abused. It has been a reasonably common practice for at least the past ten years …
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On the other side of the pond, a group of UK police officers were dry-gulched by a group of thugs armed with improvised weapons while answering a breaking and entering call.. and were saved by an unknown person carrying a katana. No, seriously. The guy with the sword took down one criminal with a (technically) nonlethal strike to the arm; two others fled and are still at large; a third was arrested later. The guy with the sword is still on the loose.
There is no word yet if he was accompanied by a teenage girl on a skateboard.
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The Reverend Magdalene was not, in fact, able to regain custody of her child on 8 January 2007 because the court put a last-minute halt on the change of custody order. The legal stay will remain in place until May of 2007, it appears.
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A couple of days ago I wrote about a rogue ActiveX control found on some newer Acer laptops that allowed arbitrary commands to be executed in response to a user visiting a malicious webpage. The SANS Institute has written an update to this vulnerability, with links to both a patch from Microsoft and a link to a US-CERT article.
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This Wired article reads like Scott Sigler decided to write an Unknown Armies module.
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The sixth volume of the information security webzine Uninformed is now out.
I've been using my Grandtec flexible silicon rubber keyboard for about two days now, and I'm not entirely sure that I like it. Because it's flexible, one would expect a lack of tactice and audible feedback from the unit, but one would not expect the sheer difficulty of getting characters to register when touch-typing normally. The layout of the keyboard is a little weird (there are four shift keys on the fifth row, in the first, second, thirteenth, and fifteenth positions) but there are no 'real' HOME, END …
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