A sweet tooth proved to be the undoing of a Greenbelt woman visiting Annapolis this week.
Shortly after midnight, Thursday morning, the Annapolis Police Department received a call from a clerk at the downtown Maryland House Hotel, who reported that a woman had come into the lobby and said she had been the victim of a sexual assault.
Officers met with Greenbelt resident Catherine Anne Delgado, 35, and determined that her assault claim was unfounded. During the course of their conversation in the lobby, the officers noticed that Delgado, wearing slacks and a sleeveless white blouse, had large slabs of fudge bulging out of her pockets.
"Smudges of fudge showed up very well on her hands and white blouse," Officer Hal Dalton said. "You don't see something like that every day."
On a hunch, an officer walked over to the nearby Fudge Kitchen on Main Street and found that the front door was unsecured. The Fudge Kitchen owner told police that since closing time a large amount of fudge had disappeared from the store's window display. He did not know why the door was unlocked.
Meanwhile, back at the hotel, Delgado had used the restroom during her interview with police. When a female officer checked the facility, she found that Delgado had tried to flush a large amount of fudge down the toilet, so much, in fact, that the candy clogged the toilet.
Delgado was arrested and charged with burglary. She was being held on $100,000 bond.
Hugh Dacre Barrett-Lennard was born on June 27 1917 into an unconventional family with two mottoes: Pour bien désirer (To wish well) and La bondad para la medra (Goodness through improvement).
The baronetcy was created in 1801 for Thomas Barrett-Lennard, an MP and the illegitimate son and testamentary heir of the 17th Lord Dacre. The 2nd baronet was a High Sheriff of Essex who - to his servants' distress - used to put down water for the rats at his house; he dressed so scruffily that, on leaving Brentwood mental hospital where he had been chairing a committee meeting, he was marched back inside by a constable who mistook him for an escaped inmate.
Young Hugh's father was a soldier and colonial judge who, on returning from his honeymoon, was said to have forgotten that he was married and tried to climb into bed in his old chambers, now inhabited by another judge.
Hugh went to Radley, and converted to Roman Catholicism with his mother in the 1930s before becoming a master at St Philip's prep school, Kensington. He was on the brink of entering the Oratory when war was declared, and joined the London Scottish as a private; he was then commissioned and switched to the Intelligence Corps before transferring to the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment. Arriving at brigade headquarters on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne in 1944, he recognised the soldier carrying his bags as a waiter who had once spilt soup down the dress of his dinner guest at the Dorchester and had been immediately fired.
Before going into action Barrett-Lennard was told by the Catholic padre over a cup of tea: "You may be dead tomorrow, so you had better come to confession." The confession duly took place in a nearby barn.
During one early morning patrol as intelligence officer, Barrett-Lennard took his Jeep so deep into enemy lines that he saw the Germans packing up to leave. On being challenged by the local mayor he replied: Je suis l'Armée Britannique. Back at headquarters he reported enemy movements to his superiors, but his driver told everyone else: "Lieutenant Barrett-Lennard is bonkers." Barrett-Lennard - whose casual manner of dress did not win the approval of NCOs - was known in the regiment as "the Dean", and earned widespread admiration for his resolution in going out to rescue the wounded. He himself was shot in the hand by a German who feared that he would be executed when he was interrogated by Barrett-Lennard.
Later, in Holland, he was conducting arms practice with some fresh troops when one man dropped a grenade; it exploded, and a piece of shrapnel remained in Barrett-Lennard's head for the rest of his life.
Continuing with the regiment over the Rhine, he set up a school for soldiers in Berlin after the armistice and went on retreat at a nearby monastery before returning home to be discharged in the rank of captain with a mention in dispatches.
After joining the London Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, Knightsbridge, in 1946 Barrett-Lennard studied at the Beda college in Rome and was ordained at the basilica of St John Lateran alongside a German whom he had shot at when the man had leapt from his tank near a wood in Normandy.
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MRP, thanks for posting this obit. I knew Fr. Barrett-Lennard as a parishoner at Brompton Road (Oratory). I had a confidential matter that needed a canonical resolution (most RC will recognize what it was). I went to him first and he introduced me to the wizards of canon law over behind Westminster Cathedral on Francis St. He found out my service in the Air Force and what I had done. He and I would talk for hours about his days in the Army and where he had served. But he was most interested in me and the Buffers. He wanted to fly in one. We were never able to finalize those arrangements but he did put in a special word for me since the canonical process when lickety-split.
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You're welcome, JIB (and thanks to retired USN chief Jeff Miller at Curt Jester, and to Fr. George Rutler, who tipped Jeff - and thanks to Fred Pruitt at Rantburg). There is more to the obit at the link.
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Once again, no one does an obit like the Brits. Wot a guy.
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The 2nd baronet was a High Sheriff of Essex who - to his servants' distress - used to put down water for the rats at his house; he dressed so scruffily that, on leaving Brentwood mental hospital where he had been chairing a committee meeting, he was marched back inside by a constable who mistook him for an escaped inmate.
It's like the Brits have some sort of monopoly on being dotty.
Dateline NBC Producer Michelle Madigan was publicly outed at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas Friday after show organizers were tipped off that she was trying to film show attendees with a hidden camera.
Madigan ran from the show after organizers publicly threatened to escort her from the event at the beginning of a 4 p.m. conference session by noted hacker HD Moore. "She literally kicked the door open," said "Priest," a show official who declined to be identified.
"Easy Spirit pumps, don't fail me now!"
"She made the mistake of running. Had she taken it like an adult, she would have been treated with kid gloves, treated with respect." You're looking for adults among the NBC producers??
Instead she left as Defcon organizer "Dark Tangent" (Jeff Moss) taunted her from the stage. "It came to our attention that a reporter might be here with a hidden pinhole camera," Moss told the crowd. He said that he had two options: to let her corner some 13-year-old and get him to admit to hacking, or to escort her away.
Amidst clapping and cries of "burn the witch," from the crowd, Madigan left the building. I like this crowd. They seem to have appropriate reflexes developed in their behavioral patterns and the right degree of reverence for the MSM ;-)
The Dateline NBC producer continued out to a nearby parking lot, surrounded by a small crowd of show attendees and media, talking briefly on her mobile phone and not saying anything to the gathering crowd. Madigan was apparently already aware that her cover had been blown.
Show organizers had been warning attendees all day of Madigan's presence and had repeatedly asked her if she would register as press, Priest said. And another show volunteer, who declined to be identified, said she had even admitted that she was videotaping the conference, telling him, "I have to go into the bathroom and put on my hidden camera," he said.
Cameras of any kind are a strict no-no at the show, which bills itself as a gathering for hackers, both legitimate, and not-so-legitimate, and takes special steps to ensure the privacy of its attendees. The show keeps no list of attendees, except for press and speakers, and there's only one way to get in the door: paying $100 cash.
Show organizers believe that Madigan had been looking to talk to hackers and federal agents, possibly with the intention of drawing attention to the fact that federal agents participate in a show whose attendees are known to skirt the law. "My guess is that she wanted a splash piece along the lines of, 'We have a whole bunch of people who are criminals. We have federal agents here as well,'" Priest said.
Priest, who would only say that he worked in the "government" sector, said that the Dateline segment could have put federal agents at the show at risk by exposing their identities. There are sure to have been government 'agents' from law enforcement there, but also information assurance pros from military & civilian agencies as well as white & grey-hats who provide expertise to those agencies.
Show attendee Michael Bender said that attendees could get into trouble with their employers if it was known that they attended the show. "We're talking about people's livelihoods," said Bender, a teacher at a Wisconsin technical college.
Defcon organizers identified Madigan after being tipped off by her associates, who Priest declined to name.
Let's hope THAT induces a little paranoia in Miss Michelle. Who can't you trust anymore, hmmmm? And do they have your private numbers now?
After the incident, Priest showed reporters a complete dossier on Madigan, which included a photograph, phone number, job title and social security number. He would not say how he obtained it. Lemme guess... hacking.
Defcon's Moss said that he's concerned that the Dateline producers may have been trying to sensationalize the conference, thus undermining the show's goal of fostering a free exchange of ideas. "We researched them online and we see (the show's producers) do hit and run pieces," he said. "It's not actually research and news. It's just sensationalistic nonsense. And that makes us nervous."
He's got them pegged, doesn't he.
Media and bloggers have gone undercover at Defcon in the past, but nobody of the stature of NBC has ever tried this, Moss said. "I'm concerned that some impressionable kid... is just going to get cornered and is going to start bragging about stuff," he said. "The next thing you know, he's on nightly news."
So NBC finally gigged onto Defcon and Black Hat. "Information assurance" has been a big keyword for years .... hell, the largest cadet club at West Point is the SIGSAC group which sponsors the annual inter-academy hacking / defending contest, judged by the NSA.
First year it was run, the NSA folks set up an unclassified server to monitor the competition but didn't secure it fully & the Army cadets p0wned it within hours. heh
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Story on this past year's Cyber Defense Exercise is here
To add to their already spectacular accomplishment, the cadets later found out that they were the first school, since the inception of the Cyber Defense Exercise, to complete the week remaining uncompromised by the NSA Red Cell. By the last day, the cadets were so confident in their network, they began leaving taunting messages for the Red Cell on the Black Knights CDX website and even went so far as to hold an after action report during the last hour of attacks from the Red Cell.
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I hope the hackers take it upon themselves to teach NBC a lesson in corporate vulnerability. And to add nice little notes to their vandalism directing thanks to Madigan personally.
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The MSM types keep focusing on the President's ratings and ignore the fact theirs are in the basement along with their bed buddies in Congress. You'd think if they had gray matter between the ears, they'd understand they even less loved than government. You really have to be absolutely clueless to grasp the [as demonstrated] consequences of that bit of data.
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Heh. I like the "burn the whitch" comment.
Do you think that the MSM will ask themselves "Why do they hate us?"
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This MSM slime apparently was intent on outing a federal agent, according to Wired:
According to DefCon staff, Madigan had told someone she wanted to out an undercover federal agent at DefCon. That person in turn warned DefCon about Madigan's plans. Federal law enforcement agents from FBI, DoD, United States Postal Inspection Service and other agencies regularly attend DefCon to gather intelligence on the latest techniques of hackers. DefCon holds an annual contest called Spot the Fed, in which attendees out people in the audience they think are undercover federal agents. The contest is good-natured, but the feds who get caught are generally ones who don't mind getting caught.
... DefCon staff lured her to a large hall telling her that the Spot the Fed contest was in session and that she could get a picture of an undercover federal agent at the contest.
When she sat down, Jeff Moss, DefCon's founder, announced that they were changing the game. Instead of Spot the Fed, they were going to play Spot the Undercover Reporter and then announced, "And there's one in here right now." Madigan, realizing she'd been had, jumped from her seat and bolted out the door with reporters carrying cameras chasing after her through the parking lot and to her car.
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NBC Dateline, eh? Hey, weren't they the ones that rigged GMC pickup trucks with explosive squibs to 'enhance' their story about defective gas tanks exploding in collisions?
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I still wonder when the government is going to seriously address hackers and virus writers. There need to be felony charges, IT industry employment lockouts, internet bans and even prohibition of computer ownership for the most egregious offenders.
The IT industry knowingly perpetuates hacking and virus writing by hiring past offenders. This is a practice that must be halted, pronto. It also represents a gigantic conflict of interest in that by rewarding hackers and virus writers with jobs, they increase the online threat level and thereby sell more of their security software.
This is predatory conduct and computer users need legal protection from it. Spam alone costs the US business community untold millions of dollars per year in lost productivity. Additional expenditures to secure corporate sites from hackers who seek to establish their cyber credentials cost even more untold millions. Lastly there is an immense loss of valuable personal intellectual property as viruses cripple processors or damage drives that are not adequately backed up.
Significant reform is long overdue. The fact that some 90% of our politicians do not even understand the most rudimentry basics of Von Neumann architecture or a bus structured computer renders them incapable of making informed decisions about such matters. We should not be punished for their lack of intelligence. Hard jail time and significant penalties need to await those who choose to pollute or vandalize cyberspace.
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Zen, I respectfully disagree. Haxors are a global phenomenon and it would be national suicide to only arrest and/or cut off the American ones.
Some of the FBI and CIA's arcane security clearance rules (No more than 20 joints LIFETIME or you can't get a clearance) keep the most talented hackers on the dark side. Some of the smartest people we have hang with real unsavory types. So what? We need that intelligence that can't be gathered by the nice young men from Brigham Young still bright and shiny from their Mission.
We cut off the US haxors, the Chinese and Paks will have us for lunch.
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Expect NBC system to be fitted with a little spyware, turmoil and eensy-weensy spiders. Someone is soon to know every email and history file of every self important airhead there.
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This MSM slime apparently was intent on outing a federal agent, according to Wired:
According to DefCon staff, Madigan had told someone she wanted to out an undercover federal agent at DefCon.
Um, isn't that just a wee bit on the felonious side of the law there? Seems "outing" a so-called undercover federal agent got somebody named...lemme' think...ah, yes, "Scooter" Libby some jail time (deserved or not) for doing something along those lines.
Now, isn't intent to commit a federal crime a felony and shouldn't this weasel be brought up on charges of conspiracy?
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We cut off the US haxors, the Chinese and Paks will have us for lunch.
Pure hooey. The IT corporations should set up operational mirrors or target websites like Google does and provide large cash prizes or employment offers for successful breakins. This could all be done legitimately without the damage. There is no good reason for society to endure the ravages of cyber outlaws.
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Zen, I know a bit about this area (IA/CI), and can tell you that you are way off base. First, get out of the box, then start looking at things with new eyes. Seriously, you are barking up the wrong tree.
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With all due respect, OldSpook, how do you recommend dealing with hackers and virus writers then? These people do tremndous damage and facilitate identity theft. Do you condone the IT industry's habit of hiring criminally convicted hackers? What about the insanely light court sentences that are handed out to virus writers?
That German teenager, Sven Jaschan, who wrote the sasser worm caused MILLIONS of dollars in damage world-wide. Yet, the punk got a 21-month suspended sentence and was ordered to do community service. Where's the justice in that? What about poor yobs who have entire manuscripts erased and other major irreplacable works scrubbed off of their hard drives by these vermin?
I understand the need for robust security and how free lancers end up providing unconventional testing of such important systems. But the criminals are being rewarded or going unpunished for causing significant damage and that is morally reprehensible.
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Fear not, I know the difference between hackers and crackers. I tutored my high school electronics teacher in digital logic and presented the class' first binary electronics seminar. I was designing digital circuits and programming using Fortran back in 1972. A personal friend of mine worked with Seymour Cray. Computers are no mystery to me.
Spammers, phishers and virus scribblers/releasers? Shoot 'em.
Welcome, Zenster, to the many here at Rantburg who have varying degrees of expertise in various areas of computing.
My current research specialties include artificial intelligence, robotics and natural language processing, but my Silicon Valley venture-funded days started back in the mid 70s, after I left a job programming for the Joint Chiefs of Staff command center. Along the way I led the development of a number of systems that you've seen or used during your time in California ... and a few in military use as well.
But security isn't my field. I know a number of true info security experts, including some associated with the NSA, I work with some security experts and I read in the field a bit. But it doesn't make me an expert by any means.
Old Spook, on the other hand, has very deep and very current operational familiarity with info assurance and cyber warfare methods currently deployed on our behalf.
While he cannot discuss a lot of details here, please accept my assurance that these are quite authentic credentials on his part. I for one respect his judgements on these topics.
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I understand that. It's why I respectfully asked him to clarify his position (within whatever limits of his classified knowledge). There still remain serious deficiencies in how cyber criminals are being prosecuted and sentenced.
Do you argue that it is not a distinct conflict of interest that security software providers are allowed to hire cyber criminals?
Do you disagree that virus writers like Sven Jaschan should be imprisoned on felony charges and experience either temporary or permanent banning from the internet, not to mention be forced to pay compensation for the damage done by their malicious acts?
Do you argue that a lot of hacking could be redirected into legitimate corporate competition against full scale colocation mirrors and intentional operations targets?
Do you seek to minimize how damaging hackers are to the cyber world?
If we could divert their attention towards profitable competitions it would make it that much easier to identify and apprehend those hackers who seek to steal consumer identity information (phishing) and corporate customer data bases.
I have no problem with our government using talented crackers to spike China's government computing systems or those of other enemies. The ability to do so does not rely upon letting these cyber vandals have free run of cyber space to wreak havoc. I have no problem with someone sitting within the confines of their own home and penetrating Miscrsoft's crappy OS and security code.
I have big problems when they inflict it upon the outside world. I have even bigger problems that it is currently being treated like white collar crime was two decades ago.
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Zen, some of this isnt even IA stuff. Its the ancient art of counter intelligence. Look deeper into it and how its applicable to most of these fairly weak personalities with strong intellects. Even though its obvious to those such as myself, I'd rather not spell it out.
Secondarily, the economic harm estimates are massively inflated. They typically overstate things by orders of magnitude and include nebulous things like unquantifiable opportunity costs. And to be brutally honest, in my professional opinion, the intelligence community does nto have the resources to give a rats ass about that stuff unless it materially impacts the security of defense of the US or its vital interests.
And thirdly, it is an almost alien mindset. I go there, and its hard to explain to others who think conventionally, why or how someone comes up with this stuff.
Asperger's syndrome is common, and I am borderline that way myself - DSM criteria did apply to me when I was younger, but not very severely since I learned to overcompensate by being "chatty" (amongst other things) and fortunately I am atypical for Aspergers, in that I did not suffer from the clumsiness thanks to my dad forcing em into all kinds of sports, musical and "shop" activities. Empathy has been a harder thing for me to acquire than calculus, intelligence analysis, or weaponry skills; which is why I cherish my Catholicism and how it forces me to stretch areas where I have less inborn capacity.
Similarly, a lot of the very best hackers (the ones are so good you really never read about them) have to work much harder at non-verbal communication: what other people can just "tell" from casual observation, they have to use the analytical parts of their minds and much more observation (almost clinically) to get the same conclusions. Hence the stereotypical nerd boy who cannot read the Green Light a girl is sending him, and walks off leaving her mystified, and him wondering what happened.
There is a lot of psychology at work in this field, its not all technical.
All of that, and most of the damage is doen by thugs and dumbass skript kiddiez, who use the tools given them by the real hackers, but have no more understanding of them than a chimp does of a handgun.
Keep the latter part in mind when talking about sentencing, etc. Damage done is usually not by the hackers but by morons who use what the hackers made.
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And as for the rest, you will have to trust us. Simply cannot say much more without getting into trouble. If you want to know more, go to a Defcon. I've been to several. They are a great place for people active analytical minds.
And if thats not good enough, well, suffer then. Sorry.
German workaholics may be suffering from a lack of sex, according to a university study published on Friday.
A survey of 32 000 men and women by researchers at the University of Goettingen found over 35% of those reporting unsatisfying sex lives tended to use hard work as a diversion. Thirty-six percent of men and 35% of women surveyed for the Apotheken Umschau newsletter said they were likely to put in extra time at the office and volunteer for extra assignments.
The hard-work ethic was even more pronounced among those who reported having no sex -- 45% of men and 46% of women said they voluntarily took on more responsibilities. "These findings are worrying," the leader of the study, Ragnar Beer, was quoted as saying.
The Karachi Taxi and Motor Rickshaw Yellow Cab Owners Association has decided to convert two-stroke rickshaws into four-stroke rickshaws by replacing their engines after an official announcement that two-strokes would be banned because of the pollution they cause.
Right now more than 100,000 rickshaws are running on the roads of Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur and Larkana and if the government will ban them, where will these rickshaws go? said the president of the association Hafiz al Haq Hasanzai.
One two-stroke rickshaw costs more than Rs 100,000 and no owner would willingly stop driving it after the ban. Therefore, it has been decided to convert these rickshaws into four-stroke ones instead of discarding them.
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Mechanic here, two stroke engines are more than twice as strong, and weigh well under half as much any four-stroke of the same horsepower, they are well engineered and last just about as long, forget lawnmower engines, they compare just like a motorcycle to a ferari, not in the same class at all.
They have two disadvantages, first you must mix oil with the fuel as hey do not have a conventional oil holding crankcase, second they burn fuel at twice the rate of four-cycles.
The whole diference is design, one is built for longevity, the other for as much available power to light weight as practical.(Longevity is sacrificed for power)
To convert anything from two-stroke to four-stroke means replacing the entire engine, there's no "Conversion" kit, the designs are radicly different.
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Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 - Authorities hanged two men in public in Tehran on Thursday for killing a senior judge in 2005. The executions took place outside the judiciary headquarters in front of a large crowd as well as Iran's chief of police Brig. Gen. Ismaeil Ahmadi-Moqqaddam and Tehran's chief prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi.
Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar had been convicted of killing Hassan Moqqaddas in his car in 2005.
Photos at the link. Not pretty.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A sweet tooth proved to be the undoing of a Greenbelt woman visiting Annapolis this week.
