#NewWorldNextWeek: #Episode141 - Flu Shot Narcolepsy, Bye Bye Scanners, Privacy Glasses

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode141 -
Flu Shot Narcolepsy, Bye Bye Scanners, Privacy Glasses
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: Evidence Grows for Narcolepsy Link to GSK Swine Flu Shot
Breaking: Scientists To Resume Work With Lab-Bred Bird Flu
Nurses Fired for Refusing Flu Shot

Story #2: TSA Removes Body Scanners From Airports
'Naked' Airport Scans Could Undergo Revamp In Canada
'Body Scanners' Archive On Media Monarchy

Story #3: Privacy Visor Block Facial Recognition Software
Video: Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village

Visit NewWorldNextWeek.com to get previous episodes in various formats to download, burn and share. And as always, stay up-to-date by subscribing to the feeds from Corbett Report here and Media Monarchy here. Thank you.

Previous: Episode140 - #IdleNoMore, Mali War, Garden Score

Peace Revolution: Episode065 - Panopticon: All Watched Over by Machines of Eugenic Race

Thanks to @TragedyAndHope ... Subscribe to Peace Revolution!

Reference Map to Episode065:
(0m-3m) Panopticon (on YouTube)
(3m-4m) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace part 2 (on Top Documentary Films dot com)
(4m-5m) Privacy: A PostMortem by Stephen Rambam (on YouTube)
(5m-7m) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace part 2 (on Top Documentary Films dot com)
(7m-10m) Schools are Tracking Your Kids (on YouTube)
(10m-11m) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace part 2 (on Top Documentary Films dot com)
(11m-14m) Privacy: A PostMortem by Stephen Rambam (on YouTube)
(14m-16m) The Panopticon World We Live In (on YouTube)
(16m-20m) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace part 3 (on Top Documentary Films dot com)
(20m-21) Privacy: A PostMortem by Stephen Rambam (on YouTube)
(21m-22) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace part 2 (on Top Documentary Films dot com)
(22m-23m) Privacy: A PostMortem by Stephen Rambam (on YouTube)
(23m-1h23m) Richard’s introductory monologue, containing the executive summary and presentation of the “Short-Cuts” project, which is a synergistic and complimentary cinematic component to be included at the end of each History… So It Doesn’t Repeat episode.
            Red Ice Radio: Richard Grove with Henrik Palmgren
            Declare Your Independence: Richard Grove with Ernest Hancock
            Liberty Tactics Radio: Richard Grove with Michael Atkinson
            Blindfold by Teace Snyder (on YouTube)
            My Dinner with Andre (on YouTube)

    Celtx Screenwriting Program

            FilmSchool 101 playlist on YouTube
(1h23m-2h20m) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace part 2 (on Top Documentary Films dot com)
(2h20m-5h12m) Privacy: A PostMortem by Stephen Rambam (on YouTube)
(5h12m-6h) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace part 3 (on Top Documentary Films dot com)
(6h-7h5m) Corbett Report #141 with Greg Nikolettos discussing the cybernetic consequences of our modern problems

See Also: Peace Revolution episodes: 009, 022, 027, 037, 041, 042, 043, 044, 046, 048, 049, 051, 059, 061, 063, 064

Previous: Episode064 - The Scientific Racism of Eugenics & Social Darwinism

New World Next Week: Episode104 - Protest 'Illegal', FBI 'Imam', Google 'Privacy'

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode104 -
Protest 'Illegal', FBI 'Imam', Google 'Privacy'

Welcome back to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: Goodbye, First Amendment: 'Trespass Bill' will make protest illegal
Obama Issues 'Policy Directive' Exempting American Citizens From Indefinite Detention
NDAA Nullification Passes VA Senate by Veto-Proof 39-1 Vote

Story #2: Stratfor Leaks: 'Ground Zero' Imam An FBI Asset
'Al Qaeda' Arrest Said to Be Case of Mistaken Identity
Video: Portland Group Burns '9/11 Commission Report' at Anniversary Gathering

Story #3: EU Wades Into Google Privacy Row
Clock Counts Down as Google privacy change looms

Visit NewWorldNextWeek.com to get previous episodes in various formats to download, burn & share. And as always, stay up-to-date by subscribing to the feeds from Corbett Report here and Media Monarchy here. Thank you.


Previous:
Virginia Nullifies NDAA, Iran Oil Bourse, Illuminati Pimping

court ok's naked body scanners, rejects constitutional challenge

from threat level: A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously declined to block the government from using intrusive body scanners across airports nationwide, saying it is “not persuaded by any of the statutory or constitutional arguments” against them. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was deciding a constitutional and procedural challenge to the Advanced Imaging Technology “nude” body scanners, which began rolling out in 2007 and are deployed to at least 78 airports nationwide. The Electronic Privacy Information Center asked the court to block usage of the devices — of which 500 more are to be rolled out this year — on grounds that they are an unconstitutional privacy invasion, ineffective and unhealthy to airline passengers.

“The petitioners argue that using AIT for primary screening violates the Fourth Amendment because it is more invasive than is necessary to detect weapons or explosives,” the appeals court noted. “As other circuits have held, and as the Supreme Court has strongly suggested, screening passengers at an airport is an ‘administrative search’ because the primary goal is not to determine whether any passenger has committed a crime but rather to protect the public from a terrorist attack.”

The court said that, whether an administrative search is unreasonable, is a balancing test on how much it intrudes upon an individual’s privacy, and how much that intrusion is needed for the promotion of “legitimate” government interests. “That balance clearly favors the government here,” the court ruled 3-0. The court added that an “AIT scanner, unlike a magnetometer, is capable of detecting, and therefore of deterring, attempts to carry aboard explosives in liquid powder form.” The three-judge appellate panel did not address limited research suggesting that the machines might not detect explosives or even guns taped to a person’s body.

related police state updates:
woman arrested for squeezing tsa officer's breast*
video: woman who groped tsa officer won't face felony charges*
tsa announces privacy overhaul of nude airport scanners*
Big Sis Spy Story Goes Viral: DHS Video Characterizes White Americans as Most Likely Terrorists*
Former NSA official says mismanagement continues at spy agency*
Phone Hacking: botched de Menezes operation officer now counter-terrorism head*
Department Of Homeland Security Spreads More Terrorism-Related Conspriacy Theories*
Mexican Prison Break Is One Event the Media Can't Ignore*
Arizona border fence to be built with private money*
Atlanta OKs surveillance center; cameras to watch city*
Florida Makes $63M Selling Drivers' Info*
San Francisco police arrest 35 protesting fatal shooting*
Lawyer: license scanner 'crosses line' as boston database builds*
New Documents in Fort Hood Shooting Case Raise Concerns About Prosecution's Handling of Evidence*

fbi agents get 'leeway' to push privacy bounds

fbi power to snoop expanded (again)
from nytimes: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention. The F.B.I. soon plans to issue a new edition of its manual, called the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide, according to an official who has worked on the draft document and several others who have been briefed on its contents. The new rules add to several measures taken over the past decade to give agents more latitude as they search for signs of criminal or terrorist activity.

police state updates:
swat team mania: the war against the american citizen*
residents surprised by sounds of fighter jets in taunton, ma airspace*
training exercise: explosion at sunny point, nc*
suspicious item in pentagon scare 'disrupted'*
blackhawk helicopters deployed for tsa security exercise across oh, ky, wv*

outrage at tsa grows as 'opt-out day' planned for nov24

cnn reports growing outrage against porno scanners
from threat level: Air travelers, mark your calendar. An activist opposed to the new invasive body scanners in use at airports around the country just designated Wednesday, Nov. 24 as a National Opt-Out Day. He’s encouraging airline passengers to decline the TSA’s technological strip searches en masse on that day as a protest against the scanners, as well as the new “enhanced pat-downs” inflicted on refuseniks.

“The goal of National Opt-Out Day is to send a message to our lawmakers that we demand change,” reads the call to action at OptOutDay.com, set up by Brian Sodegren. “No naked body scanners, no government-approved groping. We have a right to privacy, and buying a plane ticket should not mean that we’re guilty until proven innocent.”

Some travel writers have expressed concern that the protest, called for the busiest air-travel day of the year, could cause backups and delays for all travelers.

The planned protest taps a growing unease over the full-body scans. Privacy groups such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center are seeking a court order to halt the use of invasive scanners, saying the scanners are illegal and violate passenger privacy.

They also say the government has done little to ensure that images taken by the devices are not saved. The TSA has asserted that the machines cannot store pictures, but security personnel at a courthouse in Florida were found to not only have saved images but shared them among colleagues in order to humiliate one of their co-workers.

Scientists have also expressed concern that radiation from the devices could have long-term health effects on travelers.

tsa rage & the opt-out updates:
scanners & pat-downs upset airline passengers*
video: tsa rage hitting all age demographics now*
100 naked citizens: 100 leaked body scans*
furious ryanair passengers hold protest in plane*
'naked' scanners at US airports may be dangerous: scientists*
junk security: 'naked scanners’ won't keep us safe*
video: tsa chief john pistole defends new patdown procedure to congress*
dhs source: tsa infuriated with coverage of nationwide backlash*
tsa now putting hands down fliers' pants*
soros also profiting off controversial new tsa scanners*
dem dismisses groin searches as 'love pats'*
sanford airport to opt out of tsa screening*
dist atty sending deputies to sf airport to investigate felony groping*
lawmakers move to eject nude scanners from ny airports*
video: ron paul unleashes on tsa, 'enough is enough'*

new world next week - oct21

french fight back, google slapped down, pilot stands up


Welcome to another jam-packed episode of the New World Next Week - the video series from James Corbett of Corbett Report & James Evan Pilato of Media Monarchy that gives you the text, context & subtext on the stories that matter. This week:

Story #1: Will Americans Follow French Example of Mass Civil Unrest?
Flashback: Austerity Fascism Is Coming & It Will Be Brutal
Update: Violent Anarchists Help French Authorities Crush Pension Protests

Story #2: Corps & Govts: Violating Privacy with Legal Ease
Related: Pentagon Braces for Release of 400,000 Iraq Files on WikiLeaks

Story #3: Pilot Refuses Naked Body Scanner & 'Pat Down'
Flashback: Body Scanners Can Store & Send Images, Group Says

Bonus: Forbes Admits It Was 'Wrong on Monsanto, Really Wrong'
NWNW Flashback: Monsanto Named 'Company of the Year' by Forbes

Subscribe to NewWorldNextWeek.com to get hi-quality episodes to download, burn & share. And as always, stay up-to-date by subscribing to the feeds from Corbett Report here & Media Monarchy here. Thank you.

download audio version of 'new world next week'*

previous episode: oct14 -
foreclosuregate, econocrash, portlandia crime haven

gadsden flags start disputes around the country

from the upshot: An Arizona man is in trouble with his homeowners' association over flying the Gadsden flag, which features a coiled rattlesnake and the words "Don't Tread on Me." The flag has been adopted by members of the tea party movement for its association with the American Revolution, but Andy McDonel tells the New York Times that he has hung the flag from his roof simply for its historical significance.

Arizona has a state statute that allows Arizonans to fly "the Stars and Stripes, the state flag, flags representing Indian nations as well as the official flags of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard," the Times reports.

McDonel's homeowners' association is strictly interpreting that law to ban the flying of any other flags, including the Gadsden. The American Civil Liberties Union is defending McDonel, saying the homeowners' group is taking too strict a view of the statute and restricting McDonel's right to free speech. McDonel is chronicling his struggle on a blog, where he is asking for donations for a potential legal battle. McDonel isn't the only person to run into a dispute over the historic flag.

police state updates:
2 miami cops arrested for breaking into cars*
naked body scanners may get 'privacy upgrades'*
random pat-downs turn patco into police state*
plan to make US 'policeman of the world' ... literally*

new world next week - aug26

google in court, scanners on trial, bye bye cable


Welcome to a special positive episode of the New World Next Week - the video series from CorbettReport.com & MediaMonarchy.com. This week:

Story #1: Google Wi-Spy Lawsuits Head to Court
Flashback: Google's Wi-Spying & Intel Ties Prompt Call for Congressional Hearing

Story #2: After EPIC FOIA, Senators Question Retention of Body Scanner Images
Flashback: Body Scanners Will Not Be Used at Dubai Airports

Story #3: Pay TV Subscriptions Fall for 1st Time Ever in US
Flashback: Internet Overtakes Print in US News Consumption

Now you can go to NewWorldNextWeek.com to get hi-quality episodes for your device of choice. And as always, stay up-to-date by subscribing to the feeds from Corbett Report here & Media Monarchy here. Thank you.

download mp3 version of 'new world next week'*

previous episode: aug19 -
warwhores, cointelpro lives, whole wheat wins

new world next week - apr22

nle 2010, email spying & blogging = terror*

download mp3 version of 'new world next week'*

The New World Next Week - brought to you by James Corbett of CorbettReport.com & James Evan Pilato of MediaMonarchy.com - is the weekly video series that uncovers the subtext & gives you the context on some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week:

Story#1: Why is FEMA Trying to Cover Up National Level Exercise 2010?
Related: How NY Officials Prepare for Threat of a Dirty Bomb
Flashback: Training Exercises on 9/11

Story#2: Yahoo Beats Feds in Email Privacy Battle
Related: Interview w/ Rebecca Jeschke of EFF.org
Flashback: FCC Loses Net Neutrality Battle Against Comcast

Story#3: Internet Journalism Is 'Sort Of Like Terrorism'
Related: What Americans Can Do to Discourage Future McVeighs
Flashback: The Death of Printaganda

Please support the New World Next Week by sharing, rating, commenting & promoting these videos on YouTube & your own social networking site; NWNW is getting thousands of views, but with your help they could be seen by even more people who need this information. Stay up-to-date by subscribing to the feeds from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy. Thank You.

previous episode: nwnw - apr15

body scanners can store & send images, group says

from cnn: A privacy group says the Transportation Security Administration is misleading the public with claims that full-body scanners at airports cannot store or send their graphic images. The TSA specified in 2008 documents that the machines must have image storage and sending abilities, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said.

In the documents, obtained by the privacy group and provided to CNN, the TSA specifies that the body scanners it purchases must have the ability to store and send images when in "test mode." That requirement leaves open the possibility the machines - which can see beneath people's clothing - can be abused by TSA insiders and hacked by outsiders, said EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg.

EPIC, a public-interest group focused on privacy and civil rights, obtained the technical specifications and vendor contracts through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

flashback: flight 253 updates: patsies, privacy, lockdowns & more

1/13 updates: body scanner in colorado courthouse since '08*
mind-reading machines: the next step if we accept naked body scanners*
fbi arrests 2 more in nyc terrorism investigation*
air marshals rush to stop 'dozens' of attacks*
abdulmutallab pleads not guilty in plane attack plot*
will the real underwear bomber please stand up?*
flight 253: anatomy of a cover-up*
flight 253: the cover-up*
obama appoints 'mr. slam dunk' to investigate underwear bomber & ft hood murders*
video update: suspect wanted one last hug at newark airport*
passenger charged for 'bomb threat' sparking uk terror alert*
video: security alert at heathrow*
halle berry & boyfriend bypass airport line*
cleveland airport's power out; flights canceled*
airport shut down by tsa after jars of honey flagged as explosives*
85yr-old woman terrorized by tsa*
obama's tsa nominee targets anti-govt christians?*

cia misspells terrorists names to bypasses tsa & let patsies fly
from earthtimes: One of the 9/11 hijackers appeared on the no-fly list with a deliberately misspelled name. The CIA supplied that name just like they did Umar Farouk Abulmutallab’s. DCBureau is publishing the page from the 2006 no-fly list with the misspelled 9/11 hijacker’s name. Veteran investigative reporters Susan and Joseph Trento, who first obtained and exposed the flaws in the no-fly list in 2006, have completed a new investigation of the CIA’s role in airline security. It reveals that the CIA is bypassing other government agencies and following terrorists on airplanes without telling TSA or the airlines involved. It shows how terrorists and nuclear proliferators have been allowed to fly because the CIA has refused to add their correct names or aliases to the no-fly list. Part I of their two-part investigation – “The No Fly List” – is posted on the DCBureau.org Web site. The two part investigation reveals: The CIA deliberately misspells names and does not provide aliases of suspected terrorists and criminals who are being targeted for recruitment or have relationships with the agency when it passes names on to the National Counterterrorism Center to be integrated in the Terrorism Identity Datamart Environment (TIDE), Selectee, and no-fly lists.

new world next week - jan7

The New World Next Week rings in the New Year with a grand slam tour of the Media Monarchy kingdom. From falling walls and corporate craziness to protected patsies and terror hysteria, James and James once again break down the weekly news.

Story#1: China Enjoys Burst of Net Freedom as Firewall Falls
Brief Web Access in China as Great Firewall Falls
Great Firewall of China dot org


Story#2: Monsanto Named 'Company of the Year' by Forbes
2009 Company of the Year: The Planet Versus Monsanto

Story#3: Flight 253 Updates: Patsies, Privacy, Lockdowns
Obama to Probe Network of Moles Behind Christmas Patsy Fiasco?
Explosive Reached Ireland After Failed Test
Video: TSA CCTV Didn't Work at Newark
Military Blogger Detained & Handcuffed by TSA in Seattle

As always, stay tuned to MediaMonarchy.com, FoodWorldOrder.com, CyberSpaceWar.com and Corbettreport.com for all the news and analysis that's unfit for print.

previous episode: nwnw - dec31

google 'opt -out' protects privacy by moving users to remote village

from onion news network: Web users who choose to move to the desolate village are guaranteed an environment free from Google products & natural light from the sun.

chips in official id cards raise privacy fears

from ap: Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.

It took him 20 minutes to strike hacker's gold.

Zipping past Fisherman's Wharf, his scanner detected, then downloaded to his laptop, the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians' electronic U.S. passport cards embedded with radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags. Within an hour, he'd "skimmed" the identifiers of four more of the new, microchipped PASS cards from a distance of 20 feet.

Embedding identity documents — passports, drivers licenses, and the like — with RFID chips is a no-brainer to government officials. Increasingly, they are promoting it as a 21st century application of technology that will help speed border crossings, safeguard credentials against counterfeiters, and keep terrorists from sneaking into the country.

But Paget's February experiment demonstrated something privacy advocates had feared for years: That RFID, coupled with other technologies, could make people trackable without their knowledge or consent.

He filmed his drive-by heist, and soon his video went viral on the Web, intensifying a debate over a push by government, federal and state, to put tracking technologies in identity documents and over their potential to erode privacy.

Putting a traceable RFID in every pocket has the potential to make everybody a blip on someone's radar screen, critics say, and to redefine Orwellian government snooping for the digital age.

related: feds: wrap up those rfid e-documents in tin foil*

cyber/space\war: black holes, false claims & digital warfare

cyber czar position will be announced this week

a favorite emerges in obama's cyberczar search
from time: Tom Davis, a moderate Republican from Virginia, has emerged as a leading candidate for the Obama Administration's newly created position of cybersecurity czar. Sources familiar with the White House's deliberations on the subject say Obama officials feel a Washington power player would make a better candidate than a tech guru. "They want someone who understands technology issues, but more importantly, knows how to get things done in Washington," says a cybersecurity expert who has been consulted by the White House. "There are very few people who have that combination of skills, and Davis is at the top of that short list."

ibm supercomputer goes online in canada for cern computations

cyber security czar front-runner no friend of privacy
from threat level: Former Republican Congressman Tom Davis, reportedly President Barack Obama’s top candidate for cyber security czar, voted repeatedly to expand the government’s internet wiretapping powers, and helped author the now-troubled national identification law known as REAL ID. Citing White House sources, Time magazine on Friday identified the the former head of the Government Reform Committee as the president’s number one candidate for the new position. Davis’ reputation as a tech-smart moderate who knows his way around D.C. makes him an attractive pick for the administration, the magazine reported.

But an examination of Davis’ record in Congress shows that he’s been on the wrong side of key privacy issues, including the controversial REAL ID Act, which aims to turn state driver’s licenses into a de facto national identification card linked by shared databases and strict federal authentication standards.

“Given his role in REAL ID, Tom Davis would not be a good choice for privacy, which is something that President Obama specifically promised to protect in his remarks on the cyber security strategy,” says Jim Harper, the director of information policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. “Many cyber security planners refer obliquely to ‘authentication’ and ‘identity management’ programs that would devastate privacy, anonymity and civil liberties. Davis would probably work to roll past these issues rather than solve them.” The creation of a federal “identity management” program is one recommendation in the broad cyber security report published by the White House last month, although the report makes no specific proposals on implementing an internet I.D. card.

updates from jun24:
tom davis says he doesn't want cyber-coordinator job*
davis doesn't want cyber job*
pentagon approves creation of cyber command*
military’s new cyber command now online*
it's official! pentagon cyber command gets ready to 'stand up'*

feds to get power to target websites making 'false claims'

cyber-scare: the exaggerated fears over digital warfare
from boston review: The age of cyber-warfare has arrived. That, at any rate, is the message we are now hearing from a broad range of journalists, policy analysts, and government officials. Introducing a comprehensive White House report on cyber-security released at the end of May, President Obama called cyber-security “one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation.” His words echo a flurry of gloomy think-tank reports. The Defense Science Board, a federal advisory group, recently warned that “cyber-warfare is here to stay,” and that it will “encompass not only military attacks but also civilian commercial systems.” And “Securing Cyberspace for the 44th President,” prepared by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, suggests that cyber-security is as great a concern as “weapons of mass destruction or global jihad.” Unfortunately, these reports are usually richer in vivid metaphor - with fears of “digital Pearl Harbors” and “cyber-Katrinas” - than in factual foundation.

sonic black hole traps sound waves
from discovery news: A black hole created by Israeli scientists won't destroy Earth, but it could make our planet just a little bit less noisy. Using Bose-Einstein condensates, the scientists created a black hole for sound. The new research could help scientists learn more about true black holes and help confirm the existence of as-yet to be discovered Hawking radiation. "It's like a black hole because waves get sucked in and can't escape," said Jeff Steinhauer, a scientist at the Israel Institute of Technology and the corresponding author of the article recently posted on the ArXiv.org pre-print Web page. "But in this case we use sound waves instead of light." To create the sonic black hole, the scientists first had to create the Bose-Einstein condensate, a cloud of atoms cooled to almost absolute zero that acts like a light wave. The Israeli scientists actually created two clouds of rubidium 87 atoms cooled to 50 nano Kelvins and separated by a small gap.

updates from jun25:
ibm crypto snoops data without looking*
pirate bay retrial denied*
british intel agencies to step up security over cyber-attack threats*
full spectrum dominance: totalitarian democracy in the new world order*
illegal e-waste dumped in ghana includes unencrypted hard drives full of US security secrets*

and in reference to nasa's plans to bomb the moon,
remember that you can't mess w/ american pride...

cyber/space\war: obamessiah meets the cyberczar

cybersecurity: obama’s promise to trash the constitution as the white house creates new cyberspace watchdog
from dpa: The White House Friday moved to stem escalating cyber crime as threats to internet security and wireless technology grow at an alarming pace. US President Barack Obama announced the creation of a White House office that will coordinate protection of government security, financial systems, air traffic control programmes and other systems. The problem is 'the most serious economic and security challenge that faces the nation,' Obama said. In addition, the Pentagon is reportedly planning to create a new military command for cyberspace, The New York Times reported. But defence officials have not yet presented the plan to Obama, the newspaper said.

video: obama unveils new cybersecurity strategy*
obama outlines coordinated cyber-security plan*
obama: cybersecurity a 'national priority'*
president announces cyber security office*
obama says he will name national cybersecurity adviser*
obama cybersecurity report addresses critical infrastructure & privacy issues*
obama says govt sanctions unwarranted in spy case*
obama says new cyberczar won’t spy on the net*
obama’s new war doctrine: 'cyber dominance'*
obama says cybersecurity chief will secure networks*
obama's cybersecurity speech: why bother?*
obama pledges $467m for US geothermal & solar*

ultimate lock picker hacks pentagon,
beats corporate security for fun & profit

contractors vie for plum work, hacking for US
from nytimes: The government’s urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts. The exotic nature of the work, coupled with the deep recession, is enabling the companies to attract top young talent that once would have gone to Silicon Valley. And the race to develop weapons that defend against, or initiate, computer attacks has given rise to thousands of “hacker soldiers” within the Pentagon who can blend the new capabilities into the nation’s war planning. Nearly all of the largest military companies — including Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon — have major cyber contracts with the military and intelligence agencies. The companies have been moving quickly to lock up the relatively small number of experts with the training and creativity to block the attacks and design countermeasures. They have been buying smaller firms, financing academic research and running advertisements for “cyberninjas” at a time when other industries are shedding workers. The changes are manifesting themselves in highly classified laboratories, where computer geeks in their 20s like to joke that they are hackers with security clearances.

US cybersecurity plan poses new war threats,
attacks on democratic rights

cybersecurity framework for total govt regulation & control
from paul joseph watson & kurt nimmo: The Obama administration’s new Cybersecurity system will only make the Internet more vulnerable to attack, while creating the framework for a massively upgraded government surveillance grid that will control and regulate every aspect of our daily lives through the implementation of “smart” technology. Obama’s announcement of the new cybersecurity grid dovetails with a recently introduced Senate bill, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, that would hand the president the power to shut down the entire Internet in the event of a “cybersecurity” crisis. The bill’s draft states that “the president may order a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic” and would give the government ongoing access to “all relevant data concerning (critical infrastructure) networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access,” reports Raw Story. The legislation would allow the government to tap into any digital aspect of every citizen’s information without a warrant. Banking, business and medical records would be wide open to inspection, as well as personal instant message and e mail communications. This is President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program on steroids, yet the reaction from the liberal left has been muted to say the least. Furthermore, the reasoning behind the proposal is a farce, since cybersecurity will make the Internet even more vulnerable to attack. According to Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the program would “basically establish a path for the bad guys to skip down.” One of the bill’s authors, Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, admitted that the bill was about more than just military or intelligence concerns. “It is a lot more than that. It suddenly gets into the realm of traffic lights and rail networks and water and electricity,” said Rockefeller.

updates from jun2:
nasa's new solar cycle prediction*
new twitter feature: body counts*
600ft jellyfish crop circle found in oxfordshire field*
darpa recruits bees to find land mines*
audio: mysterious ‘chip’ is cia’s latest weapon against al-ciada targets hiding in pakistan’s tribal belt*

updates from jun4:
sci-fi writers dream up contingency plans for dhs - or vice versa?*
google's influence grows in the white house*
obama resurrects bush's failed cybersecurity scam*
obama's cybersecurity plan: bring in the contractors!*
the empire strikes back: US/uk prepare fightback against eastern hackers*
nominee: dhs won't lose cybersecurity authority*
napolitano names senior cybersecurity officials*
homeland security names new cybersecurity officials*
is the hacking threat to national security overblown?*
guarding the nation’s computer systems*
judge tosses telecom spy suits*
wikipedia bans scientology from editing site*
church of scientology indefinitely banned from editing wikipedia*
renewable energies are lifeline for electric grid collapse during severe solar storms*

facebook membership may be forever

from fox news: Once a Facebook member, always a member. The Consumerist blog noticed Sunday that the social-networking giant had quietly made a change to its user Terms of Service (TOS) on Feb. 4. Facebook now declares that it has a perpetual license to use anything you post to your own Facebook page - even if you terminate your account. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the change as necessary in a blog posting Monday afternoon.

update1: facebook users protest content policy

update2: facebook does an about-face on privacy
from time: Behold the two faces of Facebook: It's such a smart young company. It's such a slow learner. Both faces peeked out from the wreckage of the privacy imbroglio that wracked the social-networking site this week. Yes, it was asinine, a tempest in a teapot, but it underscored a more fundamental problem that continues to plague Facebook — the world's most popular social network is simply not learning from its mistakes.

update3: the truth about facebook

spying across the pond: nau/eu to trade private data

from new york times: The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information — like credit card transactions, travel histories and Internet browsing habits — about people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The potential agreement, as outlined in an internal report obtained by The New York Times, would represent a diplomatic breakthrough for American counterterrorism officials, who have clashed with the European Union over demands for personal data. Europe generally has more stringent laws restricting how governments and businesses can collect and transfer such information.