Fri Apr 25, 2003
Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
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Kevin's Security Scrapbook is published on an irregular
basis for a select audience. HTML versions are archived at http://www.spybusters.com/Security_Scrapbook.html
=================================================== SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
SPECIAL SECTION -- Surveillance Web Puzzle
SPECIAL SECTION -- Spy Schools
SPECIAL SECTION -- World Spy News
SPECIAL SECTION -- SpyCam News
SPECIAL SECTION -- April Showers ===================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
Follow your lawyer's advice... Many lawyers think security could be the next big area of cyber law, especially as attacks become more prevalent and companies and their customers suffer growing financial losses. ... Lawyers said companies need to plan for security and privacy risks of all stripes and bring in security experts and attorneys long before a breach happens. "We're probably the last to get called in," Jeffrey Aiken, an attorney with Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, told the crowd of lawyers and security consultants. "You need to get everyone involved in this process." http://news.com.com/2100-1009-996935.html?part=dtx&tag=ntop
Did you know? "Simply calling information a trade secret will not make it so. A business must affirmatively behave in a way that proves its desire to keep the information secret." http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/ency/ Guess what! We are an important part of that process for many corporations. http://www.spybusters.com
Oh, Pooh... Using a honeypot to detect and surveil computer intruders might put you on the working end of federal wiretapping beef, or even get you sued by the next hacker that sticks his nose in the trap, a Justice Department attorney warned Wednesday. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4004
Steal this idea for your company... State Farm is distributing 77,000 disposable cameras to Long Island customers as part of a new program to cut into fraud. The insurer asks customers to keep the cameras in their cars until needed to document damages in an accident. If successful, the program could expand across the country. http://www.ctnow.com/business/
Fraud Alert - Bogus Business Emails
Beware any e-mail, however professional in tone, that asks for personal account information. Internet users continue to be flooded with legitimate-looking e-mails that ask recipients to enter account numbers, passwords, and other data. A new con aimed at Discover Card holders is just the latest in a long line of scam e-mails sent by con artists trying to hijack accounts at AOL, PayPal, eBay and other online firms... http://www.msnbc.com/news/884810.asp
Don't focus on the wiretap, focus on the competitor connection...
Billy Hoffman published a guide on how to hack into his school's card system (the Blackboard Transaction System ). ... Michael J. Stanton, senior director corporate communications of Blackboard Inc., claimed that the company turned to legal actions because they felt that Hoffman and Griffith were far too explicit in detailing the vulnerabilities of their system. Stanton claimed the company feared that Hoffman and Griffith's work could read as a how-to manual for breaking into their system, which would compromise over 275 campuses. In a follow-up interview, Stanton said that the court ruled in favor of the injunction "because what Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Griffith did was to promote the use of illegal activity. They provided blueprints for how to vandalize property, illegally wiretap our system, and violate Blackboard intellectual property." In the press release, Stanton even suggested that one of the pair had been employed by a competitor, but failed to mention which one. http://cornelldailysun.com/articles/8553/
The World's Most Stupid Security Measures contest, winners list...
The "Stupid Security" award was judged by a distinguished international panel of security and privacy experts and is intended to highlight the absurdities of the security industry. Privacy International's director, Simon Davies, said his group took the initiative because of 'innumerable' security initiatives around the world that had absolutely no genuine security benefit. http://www.privacyinternational.org/activities/stupidsecurity/winners.html
...and whoopie cushions squeal on slackers who sit down. Thefts at a Chinese electronics factory have dropped dramatically after managers issued each worker with a whistle. Employees at the Huanxu Electronic Factory were told to blow their whistles whenever they saw anything suspicious. China Daily, quoting the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, says two suspected thieves have been caught and turned over to police since the simple alarm system went into effect. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_773474.html?
SPECIAL SECTION -- Surveillance Web Puzzle
Puzzle Piece One... fiducianet, inc. the nation's first service bureau designed to allow telecommunications carriers to outsource their subpoena processing and court ordered technical assistance in support of law enforcement (aka wiretapping), achieved another milestone by signing Cbeyond Communications, a telecommunications service provider based in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Cbeyond, a Cisco Powered Network provider, has been providing small businesses an integrated package of local, long distance and broadband Internet since March 2001. http://home.businesswire.com/ (search word: fiducianet)
Puzzle Piece Two... Cisco Systems has created a more efficient and targeted way for police and intelligence agencies to eavesdrop on people whose Internet service provider uses their company's routers. The company recently published a proposal that describes how it plans to embed "lawful interception" capability into its products. Among the highlights: Eavesdropping "must be undetectable," and multiple police agencies conducting simultaneous wiretaps must not learn of one another. If an Internet provider uses encryption to preserve its customers' privacy and has access to the encryption keys, it must turn over the intercepted communications to police in a descrambled form. http://news.com.com/2010-1071-997528.html?tag=fd_nc_1
Puzzle Piece Three... MetaSwitch, supplier of the VP3500, the industry's first true Next Generation Class 5 Switch, announced today that it has completed an extensive review with the FBI, which demonstrates that the MetaSwitch CALEA specification meets the J-STD-025A standard for circuit switching equipment. CALEA, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, requires that U.S. carriers provide Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) with the continued ability to perform electronic surveillance with existing and new telecommunications switching equipment. Electronic surveillance consists of either the interception of call content (commonly referred to as wiretaps) and/or the interception of call-identifying information (commonly referred to as dialed-number extraction) http://www.metaswitch.com/news/calea.htm
SPECIAL SECTION -- Spy Schools
SVR sez', "You've tried the rest, now buy out West." London’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper obtained documents taken from the headquarters of the Iraqi secret police, the Mukhabarat, that seemed to indicate the Russian spy service, the SVR, had been sharing intelligence with its Iraqi counterparts - including a transcript of a closed-door war meeting between Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi, as well as a list of assassins for hire in the West recommended by the Russians. http://www.msnbc.com/news/902686.asp#BODY
They fell for America's secret weapon... Searching another building, reporters from the San Francisco Chronicle found official-looking certificates from a “Special Training Center” in Moscow attended by Iraqi agents for training in eavesdropping and surveillance, as recently as late last year. http://www.msnbc.com/news/902686.asp#BODY
...the Two-Week-Wonder TSCM Course. The San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday said some documents showed that at least five Iraqi agents had graduated in September 2002 from a two-week course in surveillance and eavesdropping techniques at the Special Training Center in Moscow. (For those who don't know... the 2-week Technical Surveillance training course with the obligatory "official" Certificate of Completion has been a source of humor and criticism in our industry for decades. Et tu, SVR?) http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/04/16/011.html
Spy School starts April 30th on TechTV... "Spy School" gives you the lowdown on everything you could ever want to know about spying, from surveillance to seduction, from bribery to brainwashing. This enthralling program is full of indispensable information, irresistible features, spy challenges, how-to guides, and reconstructions. Secrets of the world's most elite spy organizations, from the CIA to the KGB, are revealed. Fifteen half-hour episodes come from a safe house in an undisclosed part of Britain where two students receive a crash course in espionage taught by controversial former British Intelligence officer David Shayler. http://www.techtv.com/spyschool/0,24460,3420594,00.html
Plane old pillow talk? Counterintelligence officials fear that an F.B.I. informer in Los Angeles tipped off the Chinese government to a covert United States effort to plant listening devices aboard China's version of Air Force One, several government officials said yesterday. ... United States officials have never previously acknowledged the bugging operation, and the Bush administration still publicly declines to comment. Intelligence officials say they are trying to determine whether the Chinese found out about the operation as a result of an F.B.I. security breach that was disclosed last week with the arrest of Katrina Leung, who officials described as a Chinese double agent, and James J. Smith, a former F.B.I. agent in Los Angeles who was her contact at the bureau. The two had a long-term sexual relationship, court documents said. http://www.etaiwannews.com/World/2003/04/16/1050456256.htm
Now that's what we call a real double-agent...
The case widened late last week when another former FBI agent, William Cleveland, resigned his post as chief of security at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after it was revealed that he had a long sexual relationship with Ms. Leung. http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=440332003
Reality Reality TV... Ms. Leung's home in San Marino, a rich suburb just east of Los Angeles, was equipped with built-in microphones and video cameras that allowed American agents to spy on her Chinese house guests. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/national/17SPY.html?th
Scuttled-butt... Electronic eavesdropping on Iraqi telephone links has for the first time picked up references to Saddam’s death. Iraqi officials began referring to him in the past tense after last Monday’s bombing of a property in the Baghdad district of al-Mansour where the dictator was believed to be at the time. Several American officials cautioned yesterday that the evidence was not conclusive, and the telephone conversations may have been a ruse to persuade coalition forces to call off their hunt for Saddam. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-645444,00.html
Let's just have a flip through that Hammurabi Code, ah #10... American forces in Iraq have captured a former spymaster believed to know about Iraqi espionage in the United States. ... Salim Said Khalaf Jumaylia, former director of American operations for Iraq's intelligence agency. He is suspected of having knowledge of Iraqi intelligence activities in the United States, including names of people spying for Iraq, said the U.S. Central Command spokesman, Jim Wilkinson. http://www.iht.com/articles/94318.html http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM
I spy... cross-pollination. The National Security Agency has named an Army general to a senior post responsible for all of the spy agency's eavesdropping and codebreaking activities. Maj. Gen. Richard J. Quirk III took over yesterday as director of signals intelligence, replacing Maureen A. Baginski, who left this month to become executive assistant director for intelligence at the FBI. Quirk, who joined the agency in October 2001, had served since August as deputy director for signals intelligence, or SIGINT. Eavesdropping on and decoding electronic messages from foreign countries represents half of NSA's mission; the other half is protecting and encrypting communications among U.S. officials. http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/annearundel/
SPECIAL SECTION -- SpyCam News
50 in 18 !?!?! Get Cecil a literary agent fast! ...and call Jerry Springer. Wisconsin - An Appleton man was charged Wednesday under Wisconsin’s “video voyeur” law while authorities work to locate as many as 50 women who were secretly videotaped having sex with him. Cecil B. Lewis, 34, formerly of 601 Crossing Meadows Lane, was charged with two counts of recording nudity without the person’s permission and placed under a $75,000 cash bond. ... “There were dozens and dozens of videotapes taken over an 18-month period,” Daniels said. “We have only identified six of the women recorded. We do not yet know where the rest of the women are.” http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_9940784.html
Psycho redux...
UK - Jailed scoutmaster Paul Woodruff was a scruffy voyeur who used a camcorder to video local children, former neighbours revealed today. The 41-year-old was hounded from his Middlesbrough home by furious residents as the details of his sick double life began to emerge. The former Scout leader was jailed for 11 years at Teesside Crown Court yesterday... Former neighbours say the paedophile set up a camera in a bedroom window in the house he shared with his disabled mum in Lowfield Avenue, Brambles Farm. http://icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0001head/
From The Portmeirion "Village" Press, no doubt... Wales - A man has been fined for apparently taking a photograph of a defendant in court using a mobile phone, it emerged today. Gavin Hughes had been in the public gallery of Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court, South Wales, but ended up in the dock himself when a police officer saw him with the gadget. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_773538.html? http://www.portmeirion.wales.com/en/features.php?id=24&MID=38
Yawn... The use of surveillance cameras in private businesses and public spaces has been a matter of debate for some time. But even as the controversy becomes more heated, the use of surveillance equipment is surging, driven by new digital technology, falling prices and terrorism jitters. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/technology/21CAME.html?tntemail0
See New York See You... With a single-minded vision, Bill Brown has led weekly video-surveillance tours of Manhattan neighborhoods since November 2000, pointing out the locations of police and private security cameras and questioning whether they do any good. Brown conducts the free tours for the Surveillance Camera Players, a seven-year-old New York group that protests against the cameras in public places. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030408/
SPECIAL SECTION -- April Showers
Security Consultants & PIs - Marketing 101 - Instant Education Learn the lingo. Dictionary of on-line advertising and marketing buzz-words. Many terms and principles apply to all types of promotion. http://services.google.com/marketing/promo/mfg_terms
Still haven't purchased a DVD player? Don't bother... Please welcome the BDZ-S77 from Sony, the first ever released Blu-ray recorder! Blu-ray discs are the successor to DVD. ... the format is here to stay because it's bigger (the Blu-ray discs are 23GB), it's clearer (it can cope with high def images without compression losses), and it's faster, with a transfer rate of 36Mbps. The new format is backed by Matsushita, Philips, Sony, Hitachi, LG, Pioneer, Samsung, Sharp and Thomson, so resistance is, clearly, futile.
(thanks to Max Everingham - http://www.japaninc.com/) http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/BD/index.html
This week in eavesdropping history... April 22, 1994 - Ex-President Richard M. Nixon suffers a fatal stroke.
Other news 'to die for'... CNN accidentally made publicly available obituaries of several international figures who are in fact still among the living. (check your status) http://news.com.com/2100-1025-997367.html?tag=fd_top
How about a little weekend project... Build your kids a treehouse.
(This guy's main home must be The Death Star.) http://www.wizkidsgames.com/mwdarkage/
Mon Apr 7, 2003
Security Scrapbook - Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
To: Clients, colleagues and friends.
Subject: Espionage & Privacy News of the Week.
===================================================
Kevin's Security Scrapbook is published on an irregular
basis for a select audience. HTML versions are archived at http://www.spybusters.com/Security_Scrapbook.html
=================================================== SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
SPECIAL SECTION -- The Last 168 Hours (World Spy News)
SPECIAL SECTION -- Eavesdropping Initiatives
SPECIAL SECTION -- Privacy? Fuhgetaboutit
SPECIAL SECTION -- SpyCam News
SPECIAL SECTION -- Salutes to Creativity
SPECIAL SECTION -- Junk Drawer Mold ===================================================
SPECIAL SECTION -- Security Director News
Beware of the mobile phone bugs... "...you then have the ability to dial into the phone from anywhere in the world and listen to what is happening and being said around that phone. And not only that but you can also use this Mobile Phone Bug as an ordinary phone. Here at CCTV-CITY we would obviously not encourage you to purchase the 'Mobile Phone Bug' to plant in a competitors office to find out new products that they may be producing as that would be illegal. We have however listed a few ideas here..." (with photos of the felonious phones) http://www.cctv-city.com/erol.html#1317x0 http://www.cctv-city.com/erol.html#1048x0
Other Bug News... CDC information regarding SARS is available through the following courtesy link... http://www.emergencyemail.org/cdc
SPECIAL SECTION -- The Last 168 Hours (World Spy News)
Ma Bell Bookie Buddy Pleads Guilty to Tap and Tell... Boston, MA - A Weymouth man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to leaking wiretap information to bookies in exchange for relief from his gambling debts while he was an employee of Bell Atlantic. ... RICHARD H. O'BRIEN, age 66, of 79 Donald Street, Weymouth, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge Morris E. Lasker to one count charging him with obstruction of justice. ... O'BRIEN faces a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000. http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ma/presspage/April2003/
Covert Conference Call Caper Ends with Felony Eavesdropping Guilty Plea... VA - Edmund A. Matricardi III, the former executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one felony count of interception of a Democratic Party of Virginia conference call. Under the conditional plea agreement, federal prosecutors will recommend that Matricardi serve three years of supervised probation and pay a $10,000 fine. http://www.wsls.com/news/localnews/MGB3FTK31ED.html Case history in a nutshell... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/
Tapper Taped Telling Tale of Tapping...
Sao Paulo, Brazil - An embattled Brazilian senator accused of illegal wiretapping suffered another blow Thursday when a journalist for a leading news magazine testified that he heard him order the surveillance of a political foe's phone. ... "I ordered the tapping of Geddel," Magalhaes allegedly said on the tape. "I am telling you because I trust you. I almost recorded almost 200 hours of his shameful conversations, also talks with the president of the Republic. They are chats with swear words and dirty talk." Cunha then asked the senator on tape: "Who did you tap his phones for?" "They (the conversations) went to my friends at my request," the accused senator allegedly replied. According to experts from the State University of Campinas, the voice on the tape is that of Magalhaes and has not been altered. http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/2003
...also, his passport photo lacked a forked tongue... The alleged mastermind of a "snake head" ring suspected of smuggling mainland Chinese people into Taiwan with bogus documents was taken into custody yesterday. ... The cross-strait operations of Sun and his group were uncovered after National Security Bureau agents recently began monitoring and eavesdropping on them. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/detail.asp?
Speaking of forked tongues, they should have code-named him "Snake Head"...
Australia - Royal commission investigators have been accused of acting illegally by bugging a rollover witness and eavesdropping on a meeting between a lawyer and several police officers who were his clients. Mark Trowell QC claimed investigators Rob Sutton and Clare Boulton breached the Surveillance Devices Act when they bugged the meeting in lawyer Peter Momber's office last November. The bug was worn by a corrupt former detective, codenamed L1, who revealed on Monday that he had attended the meeting between some of his former colleagues and Mr Momber. http://www.thewest.com.au/20030402/
Imagine that!
South Korea - The opposition Grand National Party (GNP) is stepping up criticism of the previous government and the ruling party for alleging last year that its former president Lee Hoi-chang received $200,000 in bribes from jailed lobbyist Choi Kyu-sun. ... Opposition lawmakers say the information may have been acquired through illegal means, such as wiretapping by the intelligence agency. http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200303/
Enormous meth operation finally broken... with wiretaps!
KY - DEA Special Agent Michael Kress is a specialist in wiretaps. Electronic eavesdropping created nearly airtight cases against the Quintanilla and Barrios organizations. Investigators used wiretap information to amass evidence that sent leaders, their lieutenants and their distributors to prison. Wiretaps also led to multiple convictions in a marijuana operation in a case that was spun off the Quintanilla investigation. All the defendants in all three cases were either found guilty or pleaded guilty. http://www.myinky.com/ecp/news/article/
...and what should we call assault, "lousy" judgment? Denver - No criminal charges will be filed against Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder Tracy Baker, who was accused of sexual misconduct (an affair with Leesa Sale, his assistant deputy) and misuse of public money, a special prosecutor announced Monday. Although Baker's actions "may raise issues of poor judgment," none "rise to the level of prosecutable criminal conduct," Adams County District Attorney Bob Grant said in a 13-page letter explaining his decision. ... Baker also was accused of paying Sale overtime or bonuses that she did not earn, eavesdropping on commissioners' recordings of executive sessions... http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/local/article/
Next time, send John Drake.
...Cayman officials, eager to show commitment to combating money laundering, brought charges against the institution (Euro Bank) last year. But in court, things imploded. Turns out Brian Gibbs, head of the Caymans' Financial Reporting Unit, the anti-laundering agency, was more than he appeared. He was also an undercover agent for MI6, the British CIA, secretly spying on Cayman institutions. The judge on the case soon learned of alleged document shredding, wiretapping and evidence tampering. The case was thrown out. Gibbs fled. But the Cayman Islands got the black eye. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business
SPECIAL SECTION -- Eavesdropping Initiatives
Let them watch the birdie, while you send in the bugs... "If MAVs (Micro Air Vehicles) are being used in Iraq, they may look and fly more like humming birds or insects than the Sender or other traditional aircraft. ... The tiny vehicles may actually fly through open windows, and navigate the hallways and passages of buildings, he said. MAV could become real-life versions of the proverbial "fly on the wall," landing unseen on a book shelf or floor. From that vantage point, they could transmit back pictures of people inside; eavesdrop on conversations; plant "bugs," electronic eavesdropping devices; use sensors to check for nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, and perform other tasks." http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
...like "über-tapping"?
Wiretapping takes on a whole new meaning now that phone calls are being made over the Internet, posing legal and technical hurdles for the FBI as it seeks to prevent the emerging services from becoming a safe haven for criminals and terrorists. The FBI wants regulators to affirm that such services fall under a 1994 law requiring phone companies to build in surveillance capabilities. It is also pushing the industry to create technical standards to make wiretapping easier and cheaper. http://www.msnbc.com/news/895013.asp
Your life, TiVo'ed...
Could the federal government find out what you're watching on TV? Even if you're not the subject of a criminal investigation? If you're a satellite TV or TiVo owner, the answer is yes, according to legal experts and industry officials. Under the USA Patriot Act, passed a month after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the feds can force a noncable TV operator to disclose every show you have watched. The government just has to say that the request is related to a terrorism investigation, said Jay Stanley, a technology expert for the American Civil Liberties Union. http://www.tvweek.com/technology/030303isyourtv.html
SPECIAL SECTION -- Privacy? Fuhgetaboutit
Fuhgetaboutit #1 The Dutch Minister of Justice, Hilbrand Nawijn, sees no additional value in maintaining a separate log detailing tracing activities—such as the annual number of telephone taps—in the Netherlands. ... The government has stopped publishing these figures since 1994, but did disclose recently statistics over 1998 and 1999, showing a significant rise in wiretapping with the increase in mobile phones and other sophisticated means of communication. Based on officially released figures, the Netherlands taps more phones than any other country. http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15745
Fuhgetaboutit #2
US Report on Human Rights Practices in Bulgaria ... During the year, an NGO concerned with the rule of law complained that the Law on Special Intelligence Devices provides no possibility for citizens to be informed whether they have ever been the object of surveillance or wiretapping, even if the use of special intelligence devices with respect to them has been terminated. The NGO noted this meant that citizens were potential victims of a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=21169
Fuhgetaboutit #3
"While OnStar is committed to protecting your privacy, we cannot guarantee that your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not described in this policy. Subscribers are cautioned that the privacy of any information sent via wireless cellular communications will not be assured. Third parties may, for instance, unlawfully intercept or access transmissions and private communications without our consent." http://www.onstar.com/us_english/jsp/
SPECIAL SECTION -- SpyCam News
"T-Bone" ?!?! (snarf) Even Officer Barrbrady could have figured that out.
Alaska - The sentencing of a 44-year-old Houston man who admitted to secretly video-taping teen-aged girls while they were showering and changing clothes in his house has raised questions about Alaska's sex offender registration law. Timothy F. Christoffersen, also known as "T-Bone", was sentenced March 24 by Superior Court Judge Eric Smith to serve five years of a 15-year sentence with the remaining 10 suspended. http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2003/04/06/news/news2.txt
Not only that, we hear teachers pet too...
New Jersey - Lawmakers yesterday expressed alarm that an elementary school teacher who set up a hidden video camera in a female faculty bathroom got only probation for his crime. ... Last year at Princeton’s Riverside Elementary School, Henry W. Vanegas-Salcedo, 33, of Sayerville, was teaching Spanish to kindergarten through fifth-grade students. He was arrested last April for setting up a video camera in a single-person women’s bathroom in the school. Vanegas-Salcedo was sentenced Tuesday to five years probation for the offense and he had to give up his teaching credentials. He got no fines or jail time. ... Assemblyman Gary Guear is a primary sponsor of a video voyeurism bill that would make strict penalties for such offenses. His bill is one of three in the legislature right now. ... Currently in New Jersey, video voyeur offenders are punished under the trespassing law. There is no specific code in the rule books that deals with voyeurs who watch other adults. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?
Cameras don't shoot people, people shoot people... As camera phones become more popular, national governments, local authorities and some businesses are starting to restrict the places they can be used. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2916353.stm
SPECIAL SECTION -- Salutes to Creativity
We salute unique clocks... Roger Wood creates with time in mind. Yet even though the clock can be a consistent element of his work, it’s often secondary to its creation. http://www.klockwerks.com/
We salute Dean Kamen and the Segway Scooter, but... Did you know, the anit-gravity version was invented years ago? http://www.sinor.ru:8104/~che/grebennikov.htm (near bottom of page)
We salute walking into history...
Imagine walking through the city and triggering moments in time. Imagine wandering through a space inhabited with the sonic ghosts of another era. Like ether, the air around you pulses with spirits, voices, and sounds. Streets, buildings, and hidden fragments tell a story. ... 34 NORTH 118 WEST plays through a Tablet PC with Global Positioning System device and headphones provided onsite. GPS tracks your location and determine how the story is delivered. The landscape becomes the interface. http://www.34n118w.net/
This Week in Espionage & Wiretap History April 5, 1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for acts of treason, which in this case means giving atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.
April 6, 1990 - Police trace a series of obscene phone calls to the president of American University in Washington, Richard E. Berendzen. He is forced to resign his position but is never charged with any crime.
...but there is a way to keep it rolling along... The son of notorious Rolling Stones womaniser Mick Jagger is dating the daughter of the band’s guitarist Keith Richards. James Jagger, 17, fell for Alexandra Richards, 16, after the pair flirted outrageously on a photo shoot. Protective dad-of-four Keith, 59, is said to be “concerned” about the relationship. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003141462,00.html
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