We love the EFF, and they can practically do no wrong. The SSD Project is just another stand-up example of their public service. Keep up the great work!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created this Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it.
Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) exists to answer two main questions: What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself against such spying?
After an introductory discussion of how you should think about making security decisions – it’s all about risk management – we’ll be answering those two questions for three types of data:
First, we’re going to talk about the threat to the data stored on your computer posed by searches and seizures by law enforcement, as well as subpoenas demanding your records.
Second, we’re going to talk about the threat to your data on the wire – that is, your data as it’s being transmitted – posed by wiretapping and other real-time surveillance of your telephone and Internet communications by law enforcement.
Third, we’re going to describe the information about you that is stored by third parties like your phone company and your Internet service provider, and how law enforcement officials can get it.
We hereby petition the incoming Obama administration for a modest change, an immediate change that would signal a new direction for air travelers, a new freedom for frequent fliers. Here it is: recognize the need of Americans in the friendly skies to bear tools that fit in their pocket, by which we mean the ever-so useful pocket knife, also known by its brand names, the Swiss Army Knife and the Leatherman Multi-tool.
Ever since 9/11, pocket knives and their owners have been separated at airport security checkpoints everywhere, never to be reunited. According to the TSA, knives are prohibited, except “for plastic or round bladed butter knives.” Who carries a butter knife in his or her pocket or purse? The TSA’s unhelpful “Summer Travel Tips” says: “Pocket knives, self-defense sprays and other potential weapons are also prohibited.” What a huge misunderstanding! Pocket knives are tools. If you consider them to be weapons, certainly they are Weapons of minimal Destruction (WmD).
FYI: If you happen to put said knives into checked luggage, the TSA just might steal everything, and it probably won’t end up on eBay if that happens.
A security guard at the Church of Scientology’s Celebrity Centre in Hollywood today shot and killed a man wielding a sword, police said.
Police detained the guard, who said the noon shooting was in self-defense, said Los Angeles Police Officer Karen Smith.
Ummm… what? Continuing:
Investigators interviewed witnesses at the Franklin Avenue complex. Several officers gathered around a red sports car in a church parking lot on Bronson Avenue.
The castle-like structure, formerly a hotel, is a Hollywood landmark, its turrets visible from the nearby 101 Freeway. According to a church website, the Celebrity Centre caters to “artists, politicians, leaders of industry, sports figures and anyone with the power and vision to create a better world.”
I see… A little bird told me the sword didn’t have the victim’s fingerprints on it, and that it was planted on the victim. Just a rumor?
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