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General / "Encryption Works!"
« on: July 07, 2010, 01:55:35 AM »
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/encryption-works.html
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If you use a technology called "encryption" properly, not even the government can read the information on your computer.
With encryption software, no one but you and your intended recipient can read your e-mail messages, text messages, instant messages, etc. You can even encrypt your entire hard disk to protect everything on your PC from prying eyes.
Occasionally I encounter naysayers who tell me I'm wrong. "The FBI, CIA, or NSA can unlock any type of encryption," they say. "Relying on encryption just raises your profile."
I'm not a computer expert, and I certainly don't know what capabilities the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies have to decrypt encrypted information. But in at least one case, even the FBI couldn't decipher data on a PC protected by an encryption program called "TrueCrypt."
In July 2008, Brazilian federal police seized a computer owned by a banker named Daniel Dantas. The seizure occurred in connection with Dantas' arrest for money laundering, tax evasion and racketeering.
In the meantime, police were trying to decrypt Dantas hard disks, and getting nowhere. They turned to the FBI for assistance in late 2008. After trying to break the code for more than a year, the FBI returned the hard drives to Brazilian police earlier this year, with the encryption intact. The programs Dantas used to encrypt the hard drive were TrueCrypt and another, unspecified encryption program.
Apparently investigators were unable to get past the passphrase that appears when a PC's entire hard disk is encrypted. To break the password, both Brazilian authorities and the FBI used a "dictionary" attack. This involves successively trying all the words in a list, often taken from a dictionary or simple variations of words in a dictionary. Dictionary attacks often succeed because many PC users employ short, easy-to-remember passphrases. Obviously, Dantas was more sophisticated than most computer users.
However, Dantas wasn't as successful staying out of jail. Although his data remains securely encrypted, in December 2008, he was convicted of attempted bribery of a police officer and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In this case, at least, Dantas would have done better to rely on technology than on human greed.
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General / "Please Remove Your Shoes"
« on: July 07, 2010, 01:50:54 AM »
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/monumental-incompetence-tsa.html
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Did you know...
According to GAO, TSA inspectors spend 33% of their time inspecting, 8% on incidents, 5% investigating, 5% on “outreach”, and 49% of their time on “other.” Other?
10% of useable TSA equipment (worth millions) in transit is stored for 2 years or more due to poor logistical processes.
During the first 3 months of 2007, the TSA Logistics Center received eight explosive detection systems units at a cost of about $7 million. As of January 2009, all eight explosive detection systems units remained in storage at the Logistics Center.
In December of 2009 TSA leaked a full copy of its 2008 S.O.P., screening protocol, and other security standards onto the internet.
In June 2007, investigators testing the TSA checkpoint screening process were able to smuggle prohibited items past security despite passing through secondary screening and pat-downs.
TSA has not deployed any of the 10 technologies it has created since 2002.
In 2006, TSA screened 708,400,522 passengers in U.S. airports.
In 2006, TSA screened 535,020,271 pieces of checked luggage.
TSA opens 16% of checked luggage (over 85million bags) to screen for prohibited items.
TSA confiscated 13,709,211 items in 2006.
In 2006, TSA confiscated 11,616,249 lighters. Lighters can now be brought on planes.
President Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act in 2004, which banned butane lighters from flights.
TSA’s website recommends that travelers with small children ‘do not pass [their] child to our security officer to hold.
In 2007 a man traveling to NYC from Puerto Rico smuggled a baby alligator in his pants.
As of Dec. 7, 2009, TSA is still in the planning stages for 100% checked baggage screening at many airports.
The 9/11 Act gives TSA the responsibility to ensure that the airline industry screens 100 percent of the cargo on passenger aircraft by August 2010.
As of March 18, 2009, all cargo on small body aircraft only went through daily screening procedures.
TSA paid out $98 million in bonuses and pay raises in 2008.
TSA randomly stops passengers at city subway and bus stations to screen for explosive materials.
The TSA VIPR program is meant to deter terrorists from attacking public transportation through random screenings.
50% of part-time TSA Screeners quit their job in 2006.
20% of part-time screeners left their job in 2008.
Average wait in airport checkpoint line is 11.5 minutes. On Thanksgiving it’s 16.5. In Copenhagen it’s 3.5, and at SFO (privately screened) it’s 5-10 minutes.
Aug 19, 2008: a TSA security inspector grounded 9 American Eagle jets, by climbing on (and damaging) their temperature probes and pitot tubes.
According to GAO, TSA inspectors spend 33% of their time inspecting, 8% on incidents, 5% investigating, 5% on “outreach”, and 49% of their time on “other.” Other?
In years 2002-2007 TSA conducted 20,000 covert tests. Over 60% breached security lines, but TSA has not recorded how.
In its first year TSA confiscated 4.8 million items, including 1.4 million knives, 1,101 firearms, and 39,842 box cutters.
Prior to 2007, TSA was confiscating 22,000 cigarette lighters a day.
In December of 2009 TSA leaked a full copy of its 2008 S.O.P., screening protocol, and other security standards onto the internet.
From 2002 to 2007, roughly 67,000 TSA employees quit or were fired from their jobs. There are roughly 44,000 screeners in the workforce.
In the period 2002-2006, TSA screeners lost 3674 badges and uniforms.
In 2005 TSA lost a portable hard drive, with data that contained social security numbers, bank data, and payroll for over 100,000 employees.
In 2009 TSA spent $2mm to store new equipment that had been ready for deployment for three years.
TSA personnel use ready x-rays, advanced technology x-ray, explosive trace detection systems, explosive detection systems, bottle liquid scanners, and enhanced metal detectors to screen personnel and baggage.
As of January 2009, TSA had approximately 20% of its transportation security equipment stored in warehouses rather than in the field.
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General / Unit of National Guardsmen from Utah refused to confiscate guns.
« on: May 19, 2010, 12:01:42 AM »35
General / GOP primaries.
« on: May 18, 2010, 09:09:07 PM »
Looks like Rand Paul took the rep nomination. Anyone know what happened in CT?
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General / Excellent resource: WolframAlpha
« on: May 12, 2010, 01:47:56 PM »
A friend of mine just sent me this; http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Here is an intro; http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
Here is an intro; http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
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General / I want to build a suppressor mandatory gun range in NH.
« on: January 02, 2010, 04:26:07 AM »39
General / Texas Independence 2010 Conference Announced
« on: December 24, 2009, 10:33:01 AM »
http://www.texasnationalist.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=215:tex-ind-conf-2010&catid=8:newsflash&Itemid=104
Texas Independence 2010 Conference Announced
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Nov. 17, 2009) – The Texas Nationalist Movement today announced plans for its first-ever national conference. The Texas Independence Conference 2010, or Texicon 2010, will be held March 13-14, 2010 at the Municipal Auditorium in downtown San Antonio.
The two-day event will feature speakers on a wide array of subjects relating to Texas independence, including TNM president Daniel Miller and Dr. Thomas Naylor, the professor emeritus in economics from Duke University who heads up the Second Vermont Republic organization.
The Municipal Auditorium seats about 4,800 people. Organizers expect at least 2,000 attendees.
Events on Saturday will focus on whether Texas should seek independence from the U.S., can it achieve that goal, and how. Sunday’s programs will focus on activism training and formulating an independence action plan.
The event is open to not only Texas Nationalist Movement members, but to the general public as well. Anyone interested in exploring Texas independence as one option for the Lone Star State is welcome to attend. Public office holders of all parties are invited as well.
“It will provide some new info and perspective to current members and will be an invaluable event for anyone not sure whether they support independence, but are interested in the idea,” said Nate Smith of TX-Live, which is organizing the event.
Texas Independence 2010 Conference Announced
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Nov. 17, 2009) – The Texas Nationalist Movement today announced plans for its first-ever national conference. The Texas Independence Conference 2010, or Texicon 2010, will be held March 13-14, 2010 at the Municipal Auditorium in downtown San Antonio.
The two-day event will feature speakers on a wide array of subjects relating to Texas independence, including TNM president Daniel Miller and Dr. Thomas Naylor, the professor emeritus in economics from Duke University who heads up the Second Vermont Republic organization.
The Municipal Auditorium seats about 4,800 people. Organizers expect at least 2,000 attendees.
Events on Saturday will focus on whether Texas should seek independence from the U.S., can it achieve that goal, and how. Sunday’s programs will focus on activism training and formulating an independence action plan.
The event is open to not only Texas Nationalist Movement members, but to the general public as well. Anyone interested in exploring Texas independence as one option for the Lone Star State is welcome to attend. Public office holders of all parties are invited as well.
“It will provide some new info and perspective to current members and will be an invaluable event for anyone not sure whether they support independence, but are interested in the idea,” said Nate Smith of TX-Live, which is organizing the event.
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General / Front Sight’s Citizen Soldier Lifetime Rifle Membership
« on: November 13, 2009, 02:02:52 PM »
This seems like an incredible deal to me. Anyone here taken advantage of this, or know someone who has?
http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2009/11/12/ignatius-piazza-the-swiss-and-israelis-must-think-were-idiots/
BTW, the first part reminded me of Neil Smith's "Why Did it Have to be... Guns?" http://www.lneilsmith.org/whyguns.html I figured I'd include it in case some of you had not read it.
http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2009/11/12/ignatius-piazza-the-swiss-and-israelis-must-think-were-idiots/
BTW, the first part reminded me of Neil Smith's "Why Did it Have to be... Guns?" http://www.lneilsmith.org/whyguns.html I figured I'd include it in case some of you had not read it.
42
General / Officer tickets mayor's son, and gets suspended.
« on: October 29, 2009, 11:29:10 AM »
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8471349
What's comical about this, sadly, is that the officer had no idea who he was ticketing. The residents of the area are acting disgusted about this, but this is the norm all around the country. Ask any officer what they would do if they pulled over the spouse, parent, or child, of their mayor, or chief. When I've asked cops about this, if they'd write a ticket, the answer I usually get is "NFW!", & "career suicide".
What's comical about this, sadly, is that the officer had no idea who he was ticketing. The residents of the area are acting disgusted about this, but this is the norm all around the country. Ask any officer what they would do if they pulled over the spouse, parent, or child, of their mayor, or chief. When I've asked cops about this, if they'd write a ticket, the answer I usually get is "NFW!", & "career suicide".
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General / "Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve"
« on: October 11, 2009, 11:49:16 AM »
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6869646.ece
AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.
Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients.
Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool care pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.
Fenton’s daughter, Christine Ball, who had been looking after her mother before she was admitted to the Conquest hospital in Hastings, East Sussex, on January 11, says she had to fight hospital staff for weeks before her mother was taken off the plan and given artificial feeding.
Ball, 42, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, said: “My mother was going to be left to starve and dehydrate to death. It really is a subterfuge for legalised euthanasia of the elderly on the NHS. ”
Fenton was admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia. Although Ball acknowledged that her mother was very ill she was astonished when a junior doctor told her she was going to be placed on the plan to “make her more comfortable” in her last days.
Ball insisted that her mother was not dying but her objections were ignored. A nurse even approached her to say: “What do you want done with your mother’s body?”
On January 19, Fenton’s 80th birthday, Ball says her mother was feeling better and chatting to her family, but it took another four days to persuade doctors to give her artificial feeding.
Fenton is now being looked after in a nursing home five minutes from where her daughter lives.
Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in palliative medicine, is concerned that other patients who could recover are left to die. He said: “As they are spreading out across the country, the training is getting probably more and more diluted.”
A spokesman for East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “Patients’ needs are assessed before they are placed on the [plan]. Daily reviews are undertaken by clinicians whenever possible.”
In a separate case, the family of an 87-year-old woman say the plan is being used as a way of giving minimum care to dying patients.
Susan Budden, whose mother, Iris Griffin, from Norwich, died in a nursing home in July 2008 from a brain tumour, said: “When she was started on the [plan] her medication was withdrawn. As a result she became agitated and distressed.
“It would appear that the [plan] is . . . used purely as a protocol which can be ticked off to justify the management of a patient.”
Deborah Murphy, the national lead nurse for the care pathway, said: “If the education and training is not in place, the [plan] should not be used.” She said 3% of patients placed on the plan recovered.
AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.
Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients.
Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool care pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.
Fenton’s daughter, Christine Ball, who had been looking after her mother before she was admitted to the Conquest hospital in Hastings, East Sussex, on January 11, says she had to fight hospital staff for weeks before her mother was taken off the plan and given artificial feeding.
Ball, 42, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, said: “My mother was going to be left to starve and dehydrate to death. It really is a subterfuge for legalised euthanasia of the elderly on the NHS. ”
Fenton was admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia. Although Ball acknowledged that her mother was very ill she was astonished when a junior doctor told her she was going to be placed on the plan to “make her more comfortable” in her last days.
Ball insisted that her mother was not dying but her objections were ignored. A nurse even approached her to say: “What do you want done with your mother’s body?”
On January 19, Fenton’s 80th birthday, Ball says her mother was feeling better and chatting to her family, but it took another four days to persuade doctors to give her artificial feeding.
Fenton is now being looked after in a nursing home five minutes from where her daughter lives.
Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in palliative medicine, is concerned that other patients who could recover are left to die. He said: “As they are spreading out across the country, the training is getting probably more and more diluted.”
A spokesman for East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “Patients’ needs are assessed before they are placed on the [plan]. Daily reviews are undertaken by clinicians whenever possible.”
In a separate case, the family of an 87-year-old woman say the plan is being used as a way of giving minimum care to dying patients.
Susan Budden, whose mother, Iris Griffin, from Norwich, died in a nursing home in July 2008 from a brain tumour, said: “When she was started on the [plan] her medication was withdrawn. As a result she became agitated and distressed.
“It would appear that the [plan] is . . . used purely as a protocol which can be ticked off to justify the management of a patient.”
Deborah Murphy, the national lead nurse for the care pathway, said: “If the education and training is not in place, the [plan] should not be used.” She said 3% of patients placed on the plan recovered.
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General / "Anti-Gun Senator Shoots Intruder"
« on: September 29, 2009, 01:09:21 AM »
Just received this email..
"Looks like it took about three weeks to surface & start making the email
rounds. another one we didn't see on the National News....Wonder Why ?
Anti-Gun Senator Shoots Intruder
Elitism at its finest! It appears that once again, what's good for
the goose is not necessarily good for the gander as far as liberals
are concerned. In other words, they say one thing but mean two
sets of rules: one for them, the intellectual elite and another for
the unwashed masses.
See link to story below. This NC Democrat State Senator is a die hard anti gunner.
He has voted for every anti gun bill that has crossed his desk, but when someone
invaded his house, he picked up a gun for self defense.
Hypocrites! See another news article below the link.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/national/article/74-year-old_n.c._state_senator_sho ots_wounds_intruder_at_his_home/287987/P10/
Aug 24, 2009
Long time Anti-Gun Advocate State Senator R.C. Soles, 74,
shot one of two intruders at his home just outside Tabor
City, N.C.. about 5 p.m. Sunday, the prosecutor for the
politician's home county said.
The victim, Kyle Blackburn, was taken to a South Carolina hospital,
but the injuries were not reported to be life-threatening, according
to Rex Gore, district attorney for Columbus, Bladen and
Brunswick counties.
The State Bureau of Investigation and Columbus County Sheriff's
Department are investigating the shooting, Gore said. Soles,
who was not arrested, declined to discuss the incident Sunday evening.
"I am not in a position to talk to you," Soles said by telephone.
"I'm right in the middle of an investigation."
Soles, a top-ranking Democrat and the longest-serving member of
the legislature, already was the subject of an SBI investigation over
sexual misconduct allegations with former male clients.
The Senator, who has made a career of being against gun ownership
for the general public, didn't hesitate to defend himself with his own
gun when he believed he was in immediate danger and he was the victim..
In typical hypocritical liberal fashion, the "Do As I Say And Not As I Do"
Anti-Gun Activist Lawmaker picked up his gun and took action
in what apparently was a self-defense shooting. Why hypocritical you
may ask? It is because his long legistlative record shows that the
actions that he took to protect his family, his own response to a
dangerous life threatening situation, are actions that he feels ordinary
citizens should not have if they were faced with an identical situation.
It has prompted some to ask if the Senator believes his life and
personal safety are far more valuable than yours or mine..
But, this is to be expected from those who believe they can run our
lives, manage our money, raise our kids, and protect our families
better than we can."
"Looks like it took about three weeks to surface & start making the email
rounds. another one we didn't see on the National News....Wonder Why ?
Anti-Gun Senator Shoots Intruder
Elitism at its finest! It appears that once again, what's good for
the goose is not necessarily good for the gander as far as liberals
are concerned. In other words, they say one thing but mean two
sets of rules: one for them, the intellectual elite and another for
the unwashed masses.
See link to story below. This NC Democrat State Senator is a die hard anti gunner.
He has voted for every anti gun bill that has crossed his desk, but when someone
invaded his house, he picked up a gun for self defense.
Hypocrites! See another news article below the link.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/national/article/74-year-old_n.c._state_senator_sho ots_wounds_intruder_at_his_home/287987/P10/
Aug 24, 2009
Long time Anti-Gun Advocate State Senator R.C. Soles, 74,
shot one of two intruders at his home just outside Tabor
City, N.C.. about 5 p.m. Sunday, the prosecutor for the
politician's home county said.
The victim, Kyle Blackburn, was taken to a South Carolina hospital,
but the injuries were not reported to be life-threatening, according
to Rex Gore, district attorney for Columbus, Bladen and
Brunswick counties.
The State Bureau of Investigation and Columbus County Sheriff's
Department are investigating the shooting, Gore said. Soles,
who was not arrested, declined to discuss the incident Sunday evening.
"I am not in a position to talk to you," Soles said by telephone.
"I'm right in the middle of an investigation."
Soles, a top-ranking Democrat and the longest-serving member of
the legislature, already was the subject of an SBI investigation over
sexual misconduct allegations with former male clients.
The Senator, who has made a career of being against gun ownership
for the general public, didn't hesitate to defend himself with his own
gun when he believed he was in immediate danger and he was the victim..
In typical hypocritical liberal fashion, the "Do As I Say And Not As I Do"
Anti-Gun Activist Lawmaker picked up his gun and took action
in what apparently was a self-defense shooting. Why hypocritical you
may ask? It is because his long legistlative record shows that the
actions that he took to protect his family, his own response to a
dangerous life threatening situation, are actions that he feels ordinary
citizens should not have if they were faced with an identical situation.
It has prompted some to ask if the Senator believes his life and
personal safety are far more valuable than yours or mine..
But, this is to be expected from those who believe they can run our
lives, manage our money, raise our kids, and protect our families
better than we can."