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Tamayo was in the U.S. illegally and had a criminal record in California, where he had served time for robbery and was paroled, according to prison records.
Been living off the TX taxpayers in Huntsville for 20 years after killing a cop in 1994 before finally earning his green card to hell.
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[An Nahar] Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop lashed out Wednesday at Edward Snowden, accusing the U.S. intelligence leaker of "unprecedented treachery" after he unveiled Canberra's efforts to spy on Indonesia.
Bishop praised cooperation with Washington and reserved harsh words for Snowden, whose revelations led Indonesia to halt work with Australia to stem people smuggling, a key priority for new conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Shortly before a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... in Washington, Bishop said Snowden "continues to shamefully betray his nation while skulking in Russia.
"This represents unprecedented treachery; he is no hero," she added, in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"Snowden claims his actions were driven by a desire for transparency, but in fact they strike at the heart of the collaboration between those nations in world affairs that stand at the forefront of protecting human freedom," she said.
Reports based on Snowden's leaks said that the close US ally tried to bug the phones of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and members of his inner circle in 2009.
Indonesia protested by recalling its ambassador and suspending military and immigration cooperation.
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[KREBSONSECURITY] You can grab big money by snarfing a few million names of Target customers, or you can grab big money by snarfing $9.84 from millions of marks. One of the two will get you noticed pretty quick.
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Investigators say the men somehow gained access to pumps at Raceway and Racetrac gas stations throughout Georgia, South Carolina and Texas.
Sounds pretty sophisticated. I "the men" had FISA Court authorizations.
Today's feel-good story! Hat tip to the Gateway Pundit. Deacon Blues put up a similar story about the same time I did.
ANTI-FRACKING protesters who glued and chained themselves to petrol pumps in Great Lever over the weekend were at the wrong garage, it has emerged.
Four people were arrested on Saturday after anti-fracking protesters used glue and bike locks to attach themselves to fuel pumps at the petrol station in Rishton Lane. The group had chosen to base the protest next to a Total petrol station after the French firm announced it would be investing more than £12 million in the UK's shale gas industry.
However, it emerged later that the petrol station was no longer owned by Total - but the new owners had not got around to taking the signs down yet.
Petrol station manager Reezwan Patel said: "We had to close for six hours, so with the loss of custom and the damage to the pumps, it could be a couple of thousand pounds we have lost.
"The thing is, Total don't own the station any more. It is owned by Certas Energy, but the signs haven't changed yet.
"The peaceful protesters were very polite and actually apologised for what happened, but the others were very stupid and have cost us a lot of money."
The peaceful ones were also pretty stupid...
Three men, and a woman, were in police custody yesterday after the protest, which forced the petrol station to close temporarily.
Those arrested were from a campaign group which has been protesting against test drilling at Barton Moss, in Salford.
A peaceful protest, organised by the newly-formed Bolton Against Fracking group, and attended by members of the Bolton Green Party, was already taking place at the petrol station, and was not linked to the campaigners who attached themselves to the pumps.
The rally was organised to protest about the potential use of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" in the UK, a controversial method
Controversial only to greenies and fools (but I repeat myself) who don't understand the science and engineering...
of extracting shale gas from underground rocks by cracking them with jets made up of water, sand and chemicals.
The unknown activists were criticised by Bolton Green Party chairman Alan Johnson. He said: "I was very annoyed, and I have to stress that these people have nothing to do with our protest. We were there to protest peacefully, and warn people about the dangers of fracking, and these people have put themselves, and others, in danger with what they did.
"We want to warn people that fracking could lead to a poisoned water supply and contaminated soil.
Except that it doesn't, but do go on...
"I am a grandfather and that is not the legacy I want to leave. We are very worried about the potential of fracking in Bolton because, unfortunately, we are ripe for it."
Campaign group Frack Free Greater Manchester had called for people to protest outside Total petrol stations across the country. Group member Sophie Baxter said: "Every company that is going to invest in fracking needs to expect these kind of actions. We were very proud of the guys who locked themselves to the pumps"
Personally I would have left them there overnight. And I would have sprayed them with water from a garden hose...
Specialist police officers removed the protesters from the pumps. A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said: "As a precaution, the pumps were isolated.
"Two men have been arrested for criminal damage, and a man and a woman have been arrested for criminal damage and criminal trespass."
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They need Chicago's weather. -6F in my burb tonight and -12F tomorrow ( -21C, -24.4C) Nobody will willing glue themselves anywhere outside at that temperature.
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They also used the wrong glue. I recommended 'crazy glue' on clean bare skin, but do they listen? Noooo
(You try to help...)
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Shame if a small petrol spill surrounded them while at the pumps. Let them feel the danger of their protest instead of this nerf nonsense where they have no real inconvenience adn position themselves as heroes afterwards.
[An Nahar] Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Wednesday he would ask the United States to withdraw American military personnel assigned to its embassy in Quito.
Correa said he became aware of what he described as an outsized presence after learning that four U.S. military personnel were aboard an Ecuadoran military helicopter that came under fire on October 3 last yearnear the border with Colombia.
"That's when we learned of all this, of the military group, nearly 50 military personnel. This is inconceivable," he said, adding: "We are already taking measures with respect to it."
"Unfortunately, these people have been so infiltrated in all the sectors that what is scandalous appeared normal," he said.
U.S. embassy front man Jeffrey Weinshenker said the United States had not yet received "formal notification" of the Ecuadoran request.
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I'm sure we can work this out. Please have your leftist president call our leftist president.
[LATIMES] Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden has denied intimations from U.S. politicians that he colluded with Russian intelligence operatives to steal classified information from the National Security Agency. "Nah. I just generically kinda spied. Anybody could have the data, as long as it hurt that U.S."
In a rare interview said to have been conducted via encrypted email from his refuge in Moscow, Snowden told the New Yorker magazine that "this 'Russian spy' push is absurd."
Snowden was accused by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, of being a "thief, who we believe had some help."
"I believe there's a reason he ended up in the hands -- the loving arms -- of an FSB agent in Moscow," Rogers said during a Sunday interview with NBC's "Meet the Press." "I don't think that's a coincidence."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... (D-Calif.) was asked by "Meet the Press" host David Gregory if she too thought Snowden had been assisted in his dramatic absconding with a trove of secret files from the NSA.
"He may well have," said Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. But she added that U.S. authorities "don't know at this stage."
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Colluded with the Russians or walk in, makes little or no difference. If you wittingly provide classified information to a foreign intelligence source [formerly known as Hostile Intelligence Service or HOIS] you are conducting espionage.
Leaving the United States with laptop(s) which contain classified information then releasing bits of data to unauthorized sources or the media, easily fits the definition of espionage.
Lastly, notice he did not deny stealing classified information [US Gov't property], which is also classified as criminal activity.
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Glasgow University update:
"We want Edward Snowden as our rector because he stands for democracy By nominating the NSA whistleblower, Glasgow University students are voicing our opposition to state surveillance"
[CNN] Millions of Chinese netizens were prevented from accessing huge swathes of the Internet Tuesday, with many rerouted to a website owned by a U.S. company with ties to a group outlawed in China. Crime remains crime, regardless of who does it.
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a state-run department, blamed a "malfunction in root servers" that blocked access to top-level domain names in China such as .com and .net, according to a post on its Sina Weibo account, the Twitter-like micro-blogging service.
Security analysts quoted by the official Xinhua news agency said this could have been the result of a cyber attack by hackers -- though this has not been proved.
Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT) confirmed it owns the web address users were redirected to but denied any involvement. It said the company's IP address is already blocked in China so users would have been met by a blank web page.
DIT President Bill Xia told CNN Wednesday that the Internet outage was likely caused by China's own web censorship system, more widely known by its infamous "Great Firewall" moniker, which controls access to content on the Internet inside China deemed unsuitable.
"Their DNS hijacking system is used to redirect visits to certain websites to the wrong IP address," he said. "But this time it was likely a temporary misconfiguration that affected all domain names."
According to its website, the U.S.-based company provides a range of services including anti-censorship solutions and has worked "to provide web access to forbidden sites for Internet users in China," with the Epoch Times, a newspaper run by the Falun Gong, listed among its clients.
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Monitoring the internet is kinda like having a big, popular bar. You essentially have two tools; a tape recorder, and a light switch. The tape recorder is so you can extort people later over what they said. The light switch is so you can make them go home if it starts to get out of control.
Sounds like somebody flipped the light switch.
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Gee, that's a nice internet you have there. Terrible if anything happened to it.
Now, about all that hacking coming out of your state sponsored offices...
A teenage boy was fatally electrocuted after trying to 'listen' to train tracks as is done in his native Pakistan.
Kanwal Butt, 17, suffered severe burns and died immediately after putting his ear to the live rail to see if his train was approaching Godstone station in Surrey, an inquest heard. Kanwal, who had come to the UK from Pakistan with his family 18 months earlier, had already walked across the tracks to the intercom to ask staff why his train was late. The 17-year-old then clambered down from the platform again, knelt down and leaned towards the deadly rail, which discharged a shock that killed him instantly.
An inquest was told that the teenager, who was making his first solo train journey in Britain, would probably not have known about live rails. His father, Amjad Butt, told police in a statement: He has never travelled alone by train. In Pakistan trains operate on coal or diesel. I dont think Kanwal would have known the rails are full of electricity.
... and everyone was just so surprised...
[ONLINE.WSJ] At least two protesters died from gunshot wounds as police launched a new crackdown on antigovernment demonstrations, marking the first deaths and a dramatic escalation in the conflict over whether this former Soviet republic will move closer to the West or Russia.
Protesters were girding for assaults overnight as authorities appeared to prepare for a showdown and opposition leaders threatened to go on the offensive. Riot police moved in with water cannons and, for the first time, at least one armored personnel carrier.
As President Viktor Yanukovych held talks with the leaders of the three main opposition parties Wednesday afternoon that yielded no immediate results, the weekslong confrontation spiraled into some of the most violent festivities seen on the streets of Kiev.
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Some of the photos coming out of there look like the cover art to a video war game. Its getting hard core.
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The shame of it is these guys will be left to twist in the wind by Obama and the Euros, while Putin's pals move in and pull a "Tienamin Square" to crush the protests.
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... met Wednesday with his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid for the first time since a major row over the arrest in New York of an Indian diplomat.
Meeting on the sidelines of an international peace conference on Syria, the two men "discussed their shared commitment to moving the relationship forward and returning to close partnerships on strategic, security and economic issues," a State Department official said.
Relations between India and the United States, which had steadily warmed since the end of the Cold War, plunged on December 12 when authorities jugged Please don't kill me! New York consular official Devyani Khobragade over the treatment of her domestic servant.
In a deal between the two countries, Khobragade was allowed to return to India in early January just as a grand jury indicted her on two counts including visa fraud. But she left behind her husband, and two young children who are U.S. citizens.
Khobragade's arrest, and her subsequent strip search, ignited fury in India at her treatment, and led to a series of reprisals against U.S. embassy staff and interests.
Kerry and Khurshid "agreed to work with their teams back at home to schedule the energy dialogue soon and to stay in close touch in the coming months," the State Department official said in a statement, asking not to be named.
India, which sees itself as a growing international player, has taken retaliatory action against the United States including asking for the departure of a U.S. diplomat from New Delhi.
Last week U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz delayed a scheduled trip to India.
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[An Nahar] The number sequence "123456" has overtaken "password" as the most common worst password among Internet users, an online security firm says.
Releasing its annual Worst Passwords list, SplashData said it was the first time "password" had lost its number-one position, changing places with its numerical rival.
In third place was "12345678," unchanged from 2012, while "qwerty" and "abc123" came in fourth and fifth -- and "iloveyou" climbed two spots to number nine.
Swinging the results, SplashData said, was a major security breach involving Adobe software that laid bare the widespread use of weak passwords among users of such Adobe products as Photoshop.
"Seeing passwords like 'adobe123' and 'photoshop' on this list (for the first time) offers a good reminder not to base your password on the name of the website or application you are accessing," said SplashData chief executive Morgan Slain, whose company markets password management apps.
Like other password experts, SplashData encouraged Internet users to opt for "passphrases" -- a bunch of random words, numbers and characters, like "smiles_like_skip?" -- that are easy to remember, but harder for online scam artists to crack.
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P2K, back in the early '80s I worked for a large computer company. Sys admin gurus decided that every password would be reset to a random 10 character string every week.....sale of post it notes soared.
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The admin password policy I know of is that it has to be at least 15 characters, contain no common words, have so many digits (which cannot begin or end the password) and so many special characters.
Such a policy guarantees that the password will be written down somewhere easy to reference - like a whiteboard.
So if you see what appears to be line noise written on the whiteboard - you'll know it's a password.
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Clearly, the folks making up the complex requirements for passwords are bucking for government jobs - they are so much smarter than the rest of us.
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xkcd provides a smart tutorial on passwords here.
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You don't need long, complicated passwords for security; you just need to have a waiting period before subsequent attempts are accepted. Three tries in a minute, then you have to wait an hour, miss three more times, wait a day, miss three more times, wait a month, etc. Four random digits should suffice.
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Safeboot has (or had) something like that. After I think 3 failures it delays for 1 miniute and doubles after each consecutive failure after that. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc...
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So, they found out all these passwords...how? - Ed in Texas
Just guessing but I think the No Such Agentcy, runs a pool, kind a like a Superbowl, which is payable every Monday, for the easiest to break password and the results were leaked to the press recently. You are reading the leak.
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I tell users to write their passwords on a piece of paper if they can't remember them but keep the piece of paper in a locked drawer.
One of my pet peeves is the way Internet Explorer will "remember" your password for you. But then, if you get a new computer or have to reinstall or upgrade to a newer version of Windows, IE "forgets". Then, if you forgot too, your screwed.
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Purely anecdotal but I have had to see a lot of them, frankly (can I say that) so I can check their typing. Also they send me requests.... oh lord they send me requests but itn hard.
Married Wymens
HusbandFirstNameYearofMarriage
ChildrensFirstNameYearofBirth
MaidenNameYearofBirth
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Way Older Users of Either Sex
FirstLineOfBibleVerseCitation
(this isn't all that unsecure, especially with a really obscure or incorrect reference)
And remember to use l33t to show your cool!
And do leave it on a sticky note, or several and make sure I know where they are. This is actually how I suspect Snowden got access. Social hacking is the easiest kind.
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Lastpass. It works, and is "safe enough" for general use. Good crypto, and protocol is fairly good. Secure mobile client. And you can use 2 factor with it.
[CNN] A prominent Thai political activist was shot and maimed Wednesday, the day after the national government declared a state of emergency amid violence-plagued protests in Bangkok, a police official said.
Unidentified people in a pickup truck opened fire on Kwanchai Praipana, a local leader of the pro-government "red shirt" movement, outside his home in Udon Thani province in northeastern Thailand, said police official Col. Kovit Charionwattanasak.
His wounds aren't life-threatening, Kovit said.
Police suspect the shooting may be politically motivated, he said, but they haven't ruled out a connection to Kwanchai's "personal conflicts."
The attack is likely to fan tensions in Thailand's political crisis. In Bangkok, demonstrations against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have been hit by attacks with explosives in the past week that have killed one person and maimed dozens.
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Red shirt? Have these people never seen an episode of Star Trek?
Smith & Wesson announced it will stop selling its handguns in California rather than manufacture them to comply with the new microstamping law. The other publicly traded firearms manufacturer in the U.S., Sturm, Ruger, also said this month that it will stop new sales to California.
The announcement late Wednesday came a week after the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for firearms manufacturers, filed suit against California for requiring that all new semi-automatic pistols that are not already on the states approved gun roster have the microstamping technology.
Microstamping is a patented process that, in theory, would have a unique code on the tip of a guns firing pin that would engrave that information on the casing when fired.
Smith & Wesson President and CEO James Debney said, As our products fall off the roster due to Californias interpretation of the Unsafe Handgun Act, we will continue to work with the NRA and the NSSF to oppose this poorly conceived law which mandates the unproven and unreliable concept of microstamping and makes it impossible for Californians to have access to the best products with the latest innovations.
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Don't worry. The people who even by law today are not eligible to buy guns will still get them, in the usual way, as they always have. The cartel will just pick up a new commodity to trade in - DoJ->cartel->CA.
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Naw. The proper "microstamping" is the words "FILE HERE".
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CA is heading for their utopian wet dream of no guns. Only one problem, the thugs will still have guns. Good luck CA--those who ignore history are doomed to relive it (Think Hitler's Germany, Stalin's USSR, or Mao's China)
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Walked into the NAS Whidbey NEX quick stop just across from the hangars a couple of days ago and there on the bookrack, top shelf for all to see, was not Lone Survivor, but 'Celebrating Diversity.'
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
[An Nahar] Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop lashed out Wednesday at Edward Snowden, accusing the U.S. intelligence leaker of "unprecedented treachery" after he unveiled Canberra's efforts to spy on Indonesia.
Joe 
[LATIMES] Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden has denied intimations from U.S. politicians that he colluded with Russian intelligence operatives to steal classified information from the National Security Agency.
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State 
Smith & Wesson announced it will stop selling its handguns in California rather than manufacture them to comply with the new microstamping law. The other publicly traded firearms manufacturer in the U.S., Sturm, Ruger, also said this month that it will stop new sales to California.
Mind the sprockets while riding. 
