A Few Simple Rules for Computer Security

I do this stuff for a living, so I thought I'd pass on some of my knowledge. These rules only apply to Windows users. Mac users are too rich to care, and Linux is immune. You do not need an antivirus scanner if you know what you're doing. I don't have one in Windows, and I have no viruses. 1. Do not click on embedded ads in websites that promise "free registry cleaner" or "speed up your internet connection" or ads that look like Windows error messages. These ads are fake, and will infect your...

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The American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007

American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 (Introduced in House) HR 3835 IH 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3835 To restore the Constitution's checks and balances and protections against government abuses as envisioned by the Founding Fathers. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 15, 2007 Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, and Select Intelligence (Permanent Select), for...

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10/18/07 – Chris Hedges – The Scott Horton Show

Chris Hedges, veteran war reporter and author of War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning and many other books, discusses the convergence of the Egyptian and American national security states as their puppet military dictatorship kidnaps and tortures people at the best of the U.S. government, the incompatibility of the rule of law and a republican form of government with empire and oligarchy, the 'ghost prisons' and 'ghost detainees,' held by the U.S. government around the world, the tortured (and...

10/18/07 – Mark Danner – The Scott Horton Show

Mark Danner, writer for the New York Review of Books and author of The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History, discusses George Bush’s faith in himself as revealed by the recently disclosed transcript of his meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Aznar in February, 2002, and how it keeps getting innocent people killed, the narratives of 'enhanced interrogations' and 'weapons inspections' that make torture and aggressive war acceptable and 'legal,' Bush’s...

Democrats Backing Down on Armenian Genocide: Why?

Whatever one thinks of non-binding Resolutions- and I believe Libertarians view them as a complete waste of time and resources- one shouldn’t help but be fascinated by the current political maneuvering amongst the White House, Congressional Democrats, and the Armenian and Turkish lobbies.    The Resolution had appeared to be sailing towards sure passage when the announcement came that many Democrats have flip flopped and thrown their support in with Turkey.  Question: Are the Democrats caving...

10/17/07 – Melissa Goodman – The Scott Horton Show

Melissa Goodman an attorney in the ACLU’s National Security Program, discusses the U.S. military’s expanded role in spying on Americans, how the FBI and DoD have used hundreds of thousands of National Security Letters (NSL’s) to circumvent the law to that end, how NSL recipients have been gagged from speaking out, the Supreme Court’s decision to decline to hear a torture case on the grounds that it would expose state secrets, how the FISA court’s location inside the Dept. of Justice building...

The Empire Strikes Back

or maybe a couple of their useful idiots. Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes was mugged near her Manhattan apartment Sunday night, losing several teeth in a brutal attack that has knocked her off the air while she recuperates, fellow host Jon Elliott announced on his show early Tuesday morning. ^ Because Rhodes was wearing a jogging suit and had neither a purse nor jewelry, Elliott speculated that "this does not appear to me to be a standard grab the money and run mugging." welcome to this...

Frontline: Cheney’s Law

Tuesday, October 16, 2007, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS "Through interviews with key administration figures, Cheney's Law documents the bruising bureaucratic battles between a group of conservative Justice Department lawyers and the Office of the Vice President over the legal foundation for the most closely guarded programs in the war on terror," says FRONTLINE producer/director/writer Michael Kirk. This is Kirk's tenth documentary about the Bush administration's policies since 9/11 (Rumsfeld's War,...

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