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 [...]
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Bush commutes Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso sentences
San Francisco officials held hostage
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
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
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
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 [...]
