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Pretty obvious.

Elahi’s site is the perfect alibi. Or an audacious art project. Or both. The Bangladeshi-born American says the US government mistakenly listed him on its terrorist watch list — and once you’re on, it’s hard to get off. To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an open book. Whenever they want, officials can go to his site and see where he is and what he’s doing. Indeed, his server logs show hits from the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the President, among others.

wired.com

More information about the TJX data theft is coming out in court papers filed this week against the retail company. Earlier this week it was reported that the breach of customer credit and debit card info was much larger than previously thought, with about 96 million customers being affected by the breach, as opposed to the 46 million to which the company had previously admitted.

Now eWeek’s Evan Schuman reports, per new information in court documents, that thieves on TJX’s network had managed to install a sniffer in May 2006 that allowed them to capture card data as it traveled over the network in the clear. TJX failed to detect the sniffer for seven months and also failed to notice that the intruders siphoned 80 gigabytes of stored data from a TJX server and transferred it over TJX’s own high-speed connection to another location.

TJX Failed to Notice Thieves Moving 80-GBytes of Data on its Network on Threat Level

Known to its legions of fans simply as P-Funk, Parliament Funkadelic has had a profound impact on the development of contemporary music, aesthetics and culture. PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC: One Nation Under a Groove chronicles the unique alchemy of the musical influences that fed into the band’s singular approach to music, documenting P-Funk’s continuing influence on today’s artists and musicians and featuring an in-depth look at the musical and entrepreneurial mastermind of its leader George Clinton.

PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC

So, I tried the move from Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon again last night. The first time, I got no hardware support (wired and wireless nics down, no video, no sound) and vmware wouldn’t run (error, unsupported operating system). This time it actually went almost perfectly. I had to tweak a couple things to get the visual effects that I like back, but other than that - it was a 100% success. Very nice.
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Techdirt: A Modest Proposal: Don’t Try To Censor Students Who Have This Thing We Call The Internet

Cartoonist Garry Trudeau ‘70 said he thinks a little-known fact about President George W. Bush ’68’s past — that his first mention in The New York Times occurred in 1967 when, as former president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at Yale, Bush defended the fraternity’s practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger — deserves more national attention.

Deke Trudeau on Deke Bush and “branding” at Phi

Well into the night of Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005, lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz sat alone at his desk in the headquarters of the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, consumed with a new project.
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Sitting at a secure desktop computer, he printed out page after page of classified information, pulling each batch from the printer in case anyone wandered by. When he was done, Diaz had assembled a document 39 pages long. In tiny type, it listed names, prison serial numbers and other information for each of the 551 men who were then being held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay.
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Now, Diaz knew he was crossing a line. For nearly two weeks after printing the list, he kept it locked inside the safe in his office. On another late night, he carefully trimmed the pages down to the size of large index cards. Then, on Jan. 14, the last night of his tour, he went back to the office one more time. While his colleagues were getting ready for his farewell dinner, he slipped the stack of paper inside a Valentine’s Day card he had bought at the base exchange. It was an odd touch. The card showed a cartoon puppy with long ears and bubble eyes and the greeting, “Hope Valentine’s Day is just your style.” Diaz would later say that he chose it because it was big enough to hold the list. He also hoped the lipstick-red envelope might pass unscrutinized through the Guantánamo post office.

The flaws in Diaz’s plan became apparent soon after the red envelope reached the New York offices of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a left-wing legal-advocacy group that counted itself among the most zealous opponents of the administration’s Guantanamo policy. Diaz had addressed the card to Barbara Olshansky, a lawyer at the center whom he had never met. Weeks earlier, she had written to the Pentagon official overseeing detention policy, Navy Secretary Gordon R. England, asking for the names of the detainees so attorneys could offer to represent them. Diaz, who had been copied on the draft response, knew that the administration never considered granting the request.

New York Times

Psad is a collection of three lightweight system daemons (two main daemons and one helper daemon) that run on Linux machines and analyze iptables log messages to detect port scans and other suspicious traffic. A typical deployment is to run psad on the iptables firewall where it has the fastest access to log data:

psad