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Archive for August 11th, 2009

Increase in comms snooping? You ain’t seen nothing yet

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Increase in comms snooping? You ain’t seen nothing yet

Busybody bureaucrats are a sideshow

Analysis Figures from the annual report of Gordon Brown’s communications surveillance scrutineer are all over the news today, several weeks after they were released.…

(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Congress: File sharing leaks sensitive data

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Congress: File sharing leaks sensitive data: “

Sensitive files like Secret Service safehouse locations, military rosters, and IRS tax returns can still be found on file-sharing networks, according to a report to a U.S. House of Representatives committee on Wednesday.

In many cases, that’s because federal government employees or contractors installed peer-to-peer software on their …

(Via The Iconoclast.)