I am just hoping that the police, as bad as they want to get the guys who killed OFc. Bailey, exercise restraint and common sense in the pursuit of the bad guys.
The latest is that they have three teens in custody right now for questioning. If that’s the case, then there are serious problems in the community.
Read all about one of journalism’s real heroes.
<a href=”http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-daniel-schorr-obit,0,2531110.story”>Dan Schorr dies<?a>
So the govt. did it again and knee-jerked itself good.
Well, you should know a little about the guy who that crackpot Breitbart called a liar and a “plant”.
<a href=”http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2010/07/21/farmer-aided-by-shirley-sherrod-is-a-uss-yorktown-survivor/”>Farmer a USS Yorktown survivor</a>
Well, someone in the Blago defense team has some intelligence. Blago isn’t gonna testify after all. Heck, his ship is already sunk and he’d just sink it deeper.
If you haven’t heard the tapes go to http://nbcchicago.com and search for blago tapes.
According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, the village of Dixmoor hasn’t paid their employees, a fire truck and ambulance were nearly repossessed and the gas station where Dixmoor fueled their vehicles was paid late for the third time and the village can’t go there anymore for fuel!
Here’s the link to the article. Pretty sorry state of affairs.
<a href=”http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-dixmoor-0719-20100718,0,3645581.story”>Dixmoor woes</a>
Can you believe it? Blago would HIDE in the can to avoid stuff he didn’t want to deal with!!
Wotta FU! And THIS is who we stupidly elected as governor?
Damn.
With all the stuff coming out of Blagos trial, this is just incredible.
Again, from the SANS Newsbites newsletter:
–Twitter Settles FTC Privacy Charges
(June 24, 2010)
Twitter has agreed to a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) over privacy issues stemming from two attacks that compromised
Twitter accounts. The FTC complaint says that Twitter’s stated privacy
policy at the time led users to believe that stronger privacy
protections were in place than were actually in use. On two separate
occasions in 2009, attackers gained unauthorized access to
administrative control of the Twitter service. In January 2009, an
attacker gained administrative access to Twitter through a brute force
dictionary attack. The intruder reset user passwords and posted some
of the passwords on a website, where others accessed them and used them
to send phony messages from those accounts. In April 2009, a Twitter
employee’s account was compromised, compromising Twitter user’s personal
information and messages sent. At the time, Twitter had no policy
against easy-to-guess administrative passwords, nor did it suspend or
disable account access after a certain number of failed log-in attempts.
Twitter has now implemented many of the FTC’s security recommendations.
The terms of the agreement prohibit Twitter from “misleading consumers
about the extent to which it maintains and protects the security,
privacy, and confidentiality of nonpublic consumer information.”
Twitter will also be required to undergo third-party security audits.
http://voices.washingtonpost.
com/posttech/2010/06/twitter_
settles_charges_by_ftc.html
http://www.wired.com/
threatlevel/2010/06/twitter-
settles-with-ftc/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/
37903432/ns/technology_and_
science-security/
http://www.computerworld.com/
s/article/9178473/Twitter_
settles_FTC_privacy_complaint
[Editor's Note (Pescatore and Paller): Back in 2007 the FTC managed to
reach a similar agreement with Microsoft around questionable privacy
practices in Microsoft Passport. Notice how the FTC has managed to be
an effective regulatory agency without requiring any new laws or
regulations? Kudos to FTC.]
I’m not the only one who got FUDed on this one.
This is from my SANS Newsletter! Go to the links and read.
–No Kill Switch in Cyber Security Bill
(June 23 & 24, 2010)
In response to misconceptions about their proposed cyber security
legislation, US Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins
(R-Maine) and Thomas Carper (D-Del.) have published a fact sheet to
clarify issues and quash rumors about the powers the bill grants. The
Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act
does not give the
president the authority to take control or shut down the Internet.
http://cybersecurityreport.
nextgov.com/2010/06/cyber_
bills_welcomed_scrutiny.php
http://www.informationweek.
com/news/government/security/
showArticle.jhtml?articleID=
225701368
http://www.pcworld.com/
businesscenter/article/199825/
senate_panel_approves_
controversial_cybersecurity_
bill.html
http://hsgac.senate.gov/
public/?FuseAction=home.
Cybersecurity
Yes, there’s STILL more in the seemingly never ending saga of the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education and the now indicted superintendent, Charles Flowers.
