8 posts and columns on terrorists

Government Security Gurus: All Our Networks Are Belong to Them

in News on March 23 at 4:45 am PT

And by “them,” they mean the bad guys: Spies, terrorists and troublemakers.
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Jon Stewart's Media Critique: The Rally to Restore Sanity Speech

in Media on October 31, 2010 at 7:20 am PT

Jon Stewart’s problem with cable TV, brought to you by cable TV.

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India Hopes to Resolve BlackBerry Issue Soon

in News on August 27, 2010 at 2:25 pm PT

The Indian government hopes to resolve in the next few days the issue of local security agencies monitoring Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry services, the junior communications minister said Friday. Indian officials and RIM executives are in talks after the government set an Aug. 31 deadline for the Canadian smartphone maker to come up with a solution to allow monitoring of its BlackBerry corporate email and messaging services.

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High Hopes for Tackling Terror

in News on November 6, 2009 at 8:15 am PT

Blowing away terrorists, apparently, never gets old. The new videogame Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, set to hit stores Tuesday, is a sequel spawned by sequels. But rather than following the frequent pattern of franchises fading as they age, Modern Warfare 2 is the most highly anticipated game of the season.

Whoops. False Positive. Sorry ‘Bout That … Heh Heh.

in News on October 13, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

It figures. Not only are the predictive data mining and behavioral surveillance efforts through which the government hopes to identify terrorists a threat to privacy, they don’t really work, either. In a 352-page report published last week, the National Research Council said data mining and behavior detection aren’t nearly as useful as their proponents claim.