Now that I may actually be somewhat consistent in posting, and will be posting more if I can help it, reading up on the EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers would be prudent.

This appeared in the October 2004 crypto-gram and is a very good description of how the current “security” measures at airports, etc. serve only to “reduce fear” and don’t actually “increase security”. The latter is the hard problem…

Good to look back on in light of the raising of the alert (and only for public transportation…) Is the best our intelligence can do is to assume that the next attack will be the same MO and style as recent ones?

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Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension looks like a handy extension to add to Firefox. How many times have you lost a long textarea posting? No more typing in VIM or Notepad and then pasting into the web. No need to constantly save to the server to avoid losing text.

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I hope we have better reason to suspect Al-Qaida than this. And can’t the press do better than push a ridiculous assertion such as this below with a weak justification by an anonymous source? Why the need for an anonymouse source anyhow? It almost seems as if the reporter was trying to squeeze in a link to Al-Qaida no matter the questionable “logic” being used to make that assertion. But, perhaps it came off this way due to too much pruning by the editor.