One of the more odious ideas and laws being handed down in the recent Democratik Diktats is the mass mandatory government collection and computerization of your medical records. Tell the government to kiss your ass. Here is why:
The internet is an unmitigated disaster when it comes to privacy. I realize, using some GI parlance from the sixties that the fourth amendment "don't mean shit" anymore. I mean who could possibly take this
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."seriously in the time of credit agencies with the zest of the Stasi watching Americans without a peep of protest.
There is no indignation at Google for recording photos and maps to our homes for the world's voyeurs. Our rulers and masters wish to data bank all of our medical records. They assure us that they will be safe. Ya vohl mein commandant, you can't even keep a secret about the president's helicopter. What's next?
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Marine One details leaked from P2P net
Posted by Richard Koman @ March 1, 2009 @ 2:07 PM
Bottom line: P2P is the biggest disaster for security “of all time.”
A company that monitors P2P networks says it found details about the president’s helicopter, Marine One, on a computer in Tehran. Pittsburgh station WPXI reports.
Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, said, ”We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One. … What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, MD had a file sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One,” Boback said.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, an adviser to Tiversa, added:
We found where this information came from. We know exactly what computer it came from. I’m sure that person is embarrassed and may even lose their job, but we know where it came from and we know where it went.
It’s no accident the information wound up in Iran, the company said. Countries like Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Qatar and China are “actively searching for information that is disclosed in this fashion because it is a great source of intelligence,” Boback said.
Rep. Jason Altmire said he will ask Congress to investigate the risk to national security of this sort of exposure.
Cnet’s Charles Cooper interviewed the Tiversa’s Sam Hopkins (Cooper says he’s the CEO but the original report said Boback is CEO; the company website doesn’t list executives), who said someone at the company was running a Gnutella client - possible a buggy one.
Hopkins said it’s hardly an unusual occurence - although presumably the usual breaches aren’t so closely connected to the President.
Everybody uses (P2P). Everybody. We see classified information leaking all the time. When the Iraq war got started, we knew what U.S. troops were doing because G.I.’s who wanted to listen to music would install software on secure computers and it got compromised. … We see information flying out there to Iran, China, Syria, Qatar–you name it. There’s so much out there that sometimes we can’t keep up with it.
Bottom line: P2P is the biggest disaster for security “of all time.”
We’ve had people come into our data center and we’ve shown them things that are out there on P2P and they go away with their minds blown.
from Cnet
