by David Silverberg http://www.hstoday.us/content/view/6905/151/
The fight for the moral high ground takes a new turn. On Jan. 20, 2009, Bin Laden finally met his match when the United States put forward a leader with even greater moral authority and a vision far more promising than jihad's bleak, unending struggle. In his inaugural address, President Barack Obama retook the moral high ground for the United States with a vision that was not only inspiring and inclusive for Americans but for all the people of the world. It will go down as one of the great addresses in American history.
He reached out directly to Bin Laden's audience, saying: "To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect." But at the same time he made clear that the fight will continue to be waged: "We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you."
Wednesday, February 4
Union Calls for Removal of FEMA from DHS
http://www.hstoday.us/content/view/7097/128/
Standalone agency would receive attention to fix problems, AFGE says The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) remains a failed agency that would become more effective if it were removed from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to a list of recommendations from the president of a union chapter of FEMA employees."In the three years since Hurricane Katrina, FEMA's public relations efforts have pushed the story that the agency has learned from its mistakes, telling the public that the agency has been improving coordination, adding leadership, and recruiting talent to successfully support numerous disasters since those fateful days in the late summer of 2005," wrote Leo Bosner, president of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 4060, which represents 400 FEMA employees in Washington, DC."The harsh truth is that the disasters FEMA has supported in recent years are basically mid-level disasters, and not large-scale catastrophes on the scale of Hurricane Katrina or the 9/11 attacks. These more recent mid-scale disasters caused swaths of devastation, but did not for the most part destroy local and State governments' ability to coordinate and manage their own responses to affected areas. Should a disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina strike today, we do not believe FEMA is ready," concluded Bosner, who is an emergency management specialist at FEMA.As such, Bosner's list of recommendations, circulated to government officials and reporters Tuesday, calls for the restoration of FEMA as a standalone agency under the rationale that it would receive more individual attention to correct its management and operational shortfalls.
Standalone agency would receive attention to fix problems, AFGE says The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) remains a failed agency that would become more effective if it were removed from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to a list of recommendations from the president of a union chapter of FEMA employees."In the three years since Hurricane Katrina, FEMA's public relations efforts have pushed the story that the agency has learned from its mistakes, telling the public that the agency has been improving coordination, adding leadership, and recruiting talent to successfully support numerous disasters since those fateful days in the late summer of 2005," wrote Leo Bosner, president of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 4060, which represents 400 FEMA employees in Washington, DC."The harsh truth is that the disasters FEMA has supported in recent years are basically mid-level disasters, and not large-scale catastrophes on the scale of Hurricane Katrina or the 9/11 attacks. These more recent mid-scale disasters caused swaths of devastation, but did not for the most part destroy local and State governments' ability to coordinate and manage their own responses to affected areas. Should a disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina strike today, we do not believe FEMA is ready," concluded Bosner, who is an emergency management specialist at FEMA.As such, Bosner's list of recommendations, circulated to government officials and reporters Tuesday, calls for the restoration of FEMA as a standalone agency under the rationale that it would receive more individual attention to correct its management and operational shortfalls.
SecurityDreamer - US Passports Hacked using a $250 reader
Now he's hacked US Passports using a $250 RFID reader!
http://www.securitydreamer.com/2009/02/now-hes-hacked-us-passports-using-a-250-rfid-reader.html Is he evil? Ask some manufacturers and they'll say yes, emphatically. Ask privacy advocates, and they'll praise him for exposing the seeds of Big Brother. Chris Pajet didn't stop at cloning your HID prox card while standing next to you in line at the 7-Eleven.* Now he has begun war-driving through San Francisco, gleaning RFID tags from US Passports. This is another assault on the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. Read about it here.
White hats like Chris find the holes in our tech infrastructure that the bad guys also find. I'd rather know about it than keep my head in the sand. Besides, these problems are ususally fixable, so let's fix the problems and not ignore them. *not sure if he ever did that, but the cloning device he showed me sure could have been used that way.
http://www.securitydreamer.com/2009/02/now-hes-hacked-us-passports-using-a-250-rfid-reader.html Is he evil? Ask some manufacturers and they'll say yes, emphatically. Ask privacy advocates, and they'll praise him for exposing the seeds of Big Brother. Chris Pajet didn't stop at cloning your HID prox card while standing next to you in line at the 7-Eleven.* Now he has begun war-driving through San Francisco, gleaning RFID tags from US Passports. This is another assault on the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. Read about it here.
White hats like Chris find the holes in our tech infrastructure that the bad guys also find. I'd rather know about it than keep my head in the sand. Besides, these problems are ususally fixable, so let's fix the problems and not ignore them. *not sure if he ever did that, but the cloning device he showed me sure could have been used that way.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Sex offenders booted off MySpace
BBC NEWS Technology Sex offenders booted off MySpace: "Social networking site MySpace has deleted the accounts of 90,000 users it has identified as sex offenders. The site was responding to a call from state attorneys general in the US to provide a list of offenders on its roster. MySpace and rival site Facebook have committed to making their sites safer for the growing number of young users.
However, Facebook's measures to keep sex offenders off its site have been called into question.
The 90,000 sex offenders found on MySpace represent a significant increase and the figure is nearly twice that predicted by MySpace officials last year in a preliminary estimate. Social networking site MySpace has deleted the accounts of 90,000 users it has identified as sex offenders.
The site was responding to a call from state attorneys general in the US to provide a list of offenders on its roster. MySpace and rival site Facebook have committed to making their sites safer for the growing number of young users. However, Facebook's measures to keep sex offenders off its site have been called into question. The 90,000 sex offenders found on MySpace represent a significant increase and the figure is nearly twice that predicted by MySpace officials last year in a preliminary estimate."
However, Facebook's measures to keep sex offenders off its site have been called into question.
The 90,000 sex offenders found on MySpace represent a significant increase and the figure is nearly twice that predicted by MySpace officials last year in a preliminary estimate. Social networking site MySpace has deleted the accounts of 90,000 users it has identified as sex offenders.
The site was responding to a call from state attorneys general in the US to provide a list of offenders on its roster. MySpace and rival site Facebook have committed to making their sites safer for the growing number of young users. However, Facebook's measures to keep sex offenders off its site have been called into question. The 90,000 sex offenders found on MySpace represent a significant increase and the figure is nearly twice that predicted by MySpace officials last year in a preliminary estimate."
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