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Bush commutes Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso sentences

» by russ January 20th, 2009 at 6:10 pm » View Comments

I was very happy that finally President Bush has done something about the unfair prosecution and incarceration of immigration agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso. These two men have served too much time in jail for doing the job we the American people asked them too. Thankfully soon they will be home with [...]



San Francisco officials held hostage

» by russ July 15th, 2008 at 9:20 pm » View Comments

San Francisco officials were locked out of their new multi-million dollar network by a disgruntled network administrator. Terry Childs a network administrator for the City of San Francisco has locked out the cities officials and IT staff from e-mail, payroll, law enforcement documents and booking information. Apparently Mr. Childs was angry about a [...]



US authorities know Storm Worm suspects

» by russ January 30th, 2008 at 10:54 pm » View Comments

According to a blog post by Brian Krebs on the Washington Post site US authorities know who the people are involved with the Storm Worm. However people in power in St. Petersburg are protecting these suspects. According to Dmitri Alperovitch, director of intelligence analysis Secure Computing:
… government of Russian President Vladimir Putin and [...]



San Francisco: How not to do video surveillance

» by russ January 28th, 2008 at 11:17 pm » View Comments

I found an article on SFGate.com via Engadget about the city of San Francisco’s failing surveillance program. Apparently this $900,000 system can only capture a frame every 1.7 seconds at it’s best. This seems to be a pretty sad rate given cities like Chicago can capture 30 fps. It appears the cost [...]



Cyber bulling can kill

» by russ November 17th, 2007 at 11:50 pm » View Comments

Today I was reading a Beyond B1nary blog article: “When grown-ups turn cyberbullies”. In the article Ina Fried outlines a story from the St. Charles Journal of a 13 year old girl that committed suicide after a young man ridiculed and huddled mean comments at her. This young girls parents seemed to [...]



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