July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

[IP] Lawmaker Probes TSA Website Gaffe
by David Farber 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

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Journalist Arresting for Criticizing Cops
by Eric Cordian 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

In today's news of the truly odd. ----- KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- A newspaper editor and publisher was arrested for publishing an article alleging a cover-up in an internal police investigation he had filed an official complaint about, police records show. Dennis Cooper, 66, editor of the weekly Key West The Newspaper, was arrested Friday and released two hours later on his own recognizance. The affidavit for his arrest cites a Florida statute that makes it a misdemeanor for anyone involved in an internal police investigation to disclose information before it has been entered into public record. Cooper has alleged a police lieutenant lied in court about a 1996 stop of a bicyclist, and that the Key West Police Department covered it up. He filed a complaint last month with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement accusing an internal affairs investigator of falsifying information about his review of the incident. [...]"

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A Pass on Privacy?
by Monty Solomon 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

A Pass on Privacy? By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL July 17, 2005 Anyone making long drives this summer will notice a new dimension to contemporary inequality: a widening gap between the users of automatic toll-paying devices and those who pay cash. The E-ZPass system, as it is called on the East Coast, seemed like idle gadgetry when it was introduced a decade ago. Drivers who acquired the passes had to nose their way across traffic to reach specially equipped tollbooths -- and slow to a crawl while the machinery worked its magic. But now the sensors are sophisticated enough for you to whiz past them. As more lanes are dedicated to E-ZPass, lines lengthen for the saps paying cash. E-ZPass is one of many innovations that give you the option of trading a bit of privacy for a load of convenience. You can get deep discounts by ordering your books from Amazon.com or joining a supermarket ''club.'' In return, you surrender information about your purchasing habits. Some people see a bait-and-switch here. Over time, the data you are required to hand over become more and more personal, and such handovers cease to be optional. Neato data gathering is making society less free and less human. The people who issue such warnings -- whether you call them paranoids or libertarians -- are among those you see stuck in the rippling heat, 73 cars away from the ''Cash Only'' sign at the Tappan Zee Bridge. ... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/magazine/17WWLN.html?ex=1279339200&en=c1f… d3de06adea6&ei=5088 ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen(a)leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[IP] A Pass on Privacy?
by David Farber 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

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Lawmaker Probes TSA Website Gaffe
by Randy Burge 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Lawmaker Probes TSA Website Gaffe <http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/02/72790> Ryan Singel 02.23.07 | 12:00 PM A powerful congressional committee is investigating a Transportation Security Administration website that promised to help air travelers caught up in terrorist watch lists, after a Wired News blog revealed that the site was potentially exposing user's personal information to eavesdroppers. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform asked the TSA on Friday to turn over documents related to the Traveler Verification Identity Program website to determine how the site was designed, and whether government security and privacy regulations were violated. That site was intended to allow domestic airline travelers whose names are similar to entries on the government's No Fly List and other watchlists to submit a complaint online, instead of calling TSA and requesting a form be sent to them by mail. However, the site was full of misspellings and nonsensical directions, and asked travelers to provide sensitive personal information on an unencrypted page. Travelers in an airport using a wireless connection would be at risk of having their personal information stolen and used to commit identity fraud. Additionally, the site, which was entered from a link on the TSA's main website, was hosted on the website of Desyne.com, a web design company that has a P.O. Box as its contact information -- adding to the impression it was not a legitimate government site. Committee chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California) told TSA in his letter (.pdf) that the "overall appearance of the site was so poor that web experts first assumed it was a so-called 'phishing' site, a site internet hackers had created to look like a TSA website page." Waxman also asked the agency to turn over by March 9 documents regarding Desyne, communications about security with that company, and the period of time that the site was running without encryption. Despite appearances, TSA spokesman Christopher White assured Wired News last week that the site was not part of a phishing attack. "We take IT responsibilities seriously. There was never a vulnerability; just a small glitch," White said. The Traveler Verification Identity Program site was taken down last Friday. It was replaced this week by a completely different webpage offering the same service, but now called the Travel Redress Inquiry Program, or TRIP. <snip> <http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/02/72790> ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[Dewayne-Net] Lawmaker Probes TSA Website Gaffe
by dewayne＠warpspeed.com 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

[Note: This item comes from reader Randy Burge. DLH]

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[IP] Lawmaker Probes TSA Website Gaffe
by David Farber 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

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