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Opinion: 3 Reasons to Kill the Internet Kill Switch Idea

(July 9) -- Last month, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., introduced a bill that might -- we're not really sure -- give the president the authority to shut down all or portions of the Internet in the event of an emergency. It's not a new idea. Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, proposed the same thing...

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05/25/12 Bruce Schneier on Trust, Security and Society at HITB... Source: Softpedia News We're at the Okura hotel in Amsterdam attending the 2012 Hack in the Box security conference and the second day seems to be as impressive as the first one.
05/11/12 Sam Harris On Knowing Your Enemy, and a response Source: 3quarksdaily Imagine that you work for the TSA and are executing a hand search of a traveler's bag.
05/02/12 Kiwis warned of online privacy issues Source: New Zealand Herald Internet experts have warned of New Zealanders' carefree attitude to online privacy, saying that most of our personal data is held by foreign companies which are not subject to New Zealand law or ethics.
04/30/12 Are your customers friends or criminals? Source: CBS News (MoneyWatch) One of the best books I've read this year is by a security technologist, Bruce Schneier.
04/20/12 TSA program to turn jumped-up mall cops into... Source: Boing Boing Bruce Schneier commented this morning on the General Accounting Office's assessment of the TSA's "behavior detection" program, which is like the pick-up artist movement for creepy security agencies.