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The Bailey case moves forward

Duffy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:39:04 +0000

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.

Teens held in Bailey case

Dan Schorr dies at 92

Duffy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:31:37 +0000

Read all about one of journalism’s real heroes.

Dan Schorr dies

Shirley Sherrod’s friend

Duffy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:23:16 +0000

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”.

Farmer a USS Yorktown survivor

Blago keeps mum

Duffy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:24:12 +0000

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.

Dixmoor is having major fiscal issues

Duffy — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:35:04 +0000

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.

Dixmoor woes

More Blago Barf

Duffy — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:01:20 +0000

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.

OMG! What a circus this is turning out to be

Duffy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:54:09 +0000

With all the stuff coming out of Blagos trial, this is just incredible.

Blagos drop $400K on clothes

Twitter settles FTC suit

Duffy — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:36:56 +0000

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.]

CORRECTION: Posting about the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act

Duffy — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:35:39 +0000

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

The Flowers follies

Duffy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:00:35 +0000

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.

Among other things, there’s the matter of 2500 teacher certifications that have to be done by July 1, which, conveniently, is the date when this office will disappear!!!! Also, there’s the

matter of the $25 checks that the teachers sent in being cashed but nothing in return!

Also, the State Police is owed over $130,000 for background checks that it performed for the office.

Will this crap ever end??? Personally, I hope Flowers relocates to the IDOC for a nice, LONG stay. Hey, mebbe he can link up with Hollis Dorough, the cop from Harvey

that sold a gun, taken in a long running case, BACK to the defendant’s father, allegedly on orders of Mayor Eric Kellogg. However, nothing’s ever been done on that part of

the circus that is Harvey, Illinois.