Monthly Archives: December 2012

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The Illusion Of Online Security | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR

The age of passwords is over. That’s the claim made in this month’s “Wired” magazine. Most of us trust that a string of letters, numbers and characters is enough to protect our bank accounts, email and credit cards. But hackers are breaking into computer systems and hosts of user names and passwords on the Web with increasing regularity. And because so much of our personal information is stored in the cloud, hackers can trick customer service agents into resetting passwords. Some Internet companies say the trade-offs — convenience and privacy –- are necessary to protect our data. Privacy advocates say that price is too high. Diane and her guests discuss the illusion of online security and whether you can make your accounts harder to crack.

Guests

Simon Davies founder of Privacy International.

Cecilia Kang technology reporter for the Washington Post.

Kevin Mitnick information security expert and former hacker.

Transcript

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via The Illusion Of Online Security | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR.

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Comedian: Liberal comics ‘don’t want to make fun of Obama because they feel that it will weaken him’ | The Daily Caller

Conservative stand-up comedian Evan Sayet says there is “no doubt” his fellow comics have taken it easy on President Barack Obama.

“They’ve even admitted it themselves,” he told The Daily Caller.

“Liberals don’t want to make fun of Obama because they feel that it will weaken him if they honestly point out his foibles and his shortcomings. The narrative is that Obama is sort of a god (in fact, Evan Thomas of Newsweek said exactly that.) Gods don’t have any flaws. Thus, if they point out a single flaw, they are entirely destroying the narrative.”

via Comedian: Liberal comics ‘don’t want to make fun of Obama because they feel that it will weaken him’ | The Daily Caller.

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Americans Are The Most Spied On People In World History | ZeroHedge

TechDirt notes:

In a radio interview, Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin (who’s been one of the best at covering the surveillance state in the US) made a simple observation that puts much of this into context: the US surveillance regime has more data on the average American than the Stasi ever did on East Germans.

via Americans Are The Most Spied On People In World History | ZeroHedge.

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Bombshell: Deutsche Bank Hid $12 Billion In Losses To Avoid A Government Bail-Out | ZeroHedge

Forget the perfectly anticipated Greek (selective) default. This is the real deal. The FT just released a blockbuster that Europe’s most important and significant bank, Deutsche Bank, hid $12 billion in losses during the financial crisis, helping the bank avoid a government bail-out, according to three former bank employees who filed complaints to US regulators. US regulators, whose chief of enforcement currently was none other than the General Counsel of Deutsche Bank at the time!

From the FT:

via Bombshell: Deutsche Bank Hid $12 Billion In Losses To Avoid A Government Bail-Out | ZeroHedge.

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Bradley Manning: A Window Into The American Soul – PaulCraigRoberts.org

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/12/03/bradley-manning-a-window-into-the-american-soul/

Liberty consists of government being ruled by law and citizens having control over law. This was the way our founding fathers set up the US Constitution. It is the Constitution that defines the United States. Every member of the government and the armed forces swears allegiance to the Constitution–not to the government or to the president or to a political party or to an ideology–to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.

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‘Support for Palestine unprecedented, Netanyahu should recognize it’ – YouTube

Washington has lambasted its main Middle East partner over new settlement plans, saying they’re damaging longstanding US-Israeli ties. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed off the criticism today vowing to press ahead and continue construction. British MP Jeremy Corbyn thinks Tel Aviv’s risking losing its allies.

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Are Mass Sinkholes Caused by Fracking – YouTube

Have you heard of the massive sinkholes popping up around the nation? Flammable craters spanning acres wide and leaking radiation, monster sinkholes described as ‘apocalyptic’ have forced residents out of homes, expelled radiation into the environment, and are now ushering in concerns about serious Earth changes in the near future. If you’ve heard of these sinkholes, chances are it has been from the alternative media.

It’s a hot issue on forums, some social networking sectors, and certain alternative talk radio programs. Sure, it has come up in some mainstream reports here and there, but there are virtually no in-depth pieces tying everything together. And they often fail to mention the scale of these sinkholes, behemoth anomalies that can swallow up 100 foot trees, houses, with the latest Ohio sinkhole devouring 4 football fields of land. Events that are sending residents scrambling.

http://www.infowars.com/why-is-the-media-ignoring-the-mass-sinkholes-popping-…

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Keiser Report: TINA’s Big Black Hole (E375) – YouTube

In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert investigate the black hole of debt sucking in our economies, jobs and wealth like strings of spaghetti past the economic event horizon. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland of Cheviot Asset Management about the fishy smoke signals blowing at the LBMA regarding silver contracts and about the debate between inflation, deflation, hyperinflation actually being a debate about the final denouement of paper currencies. Ned also reveals that BBC’s flagship programme, Panorama, had interviewed him and Andrew Maguire about silver manipulation and yet have never aired the episode.