[funsec] 'Little Red Book' Draws Government's Attention

[Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)]

 and for those reasons (and many more) are why our founding fathers DEMANDED a written constitution :-)

Um.... This isn't meant to start a flame war by any means.... I don't want to start a "mine's better than yours" war... There's never a winner :-)


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, MCSE, MCP+I 
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
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email:  Blanchard_Michael at EMC.COM 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org] On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 12:29 PM
To: funsec at linuxbox.org
Subject: RE: [funsec] 'Little Red Book' Draws Government's Attention 

>>> There's really no need to have a written 
>>> constitution. We've done fine without one 
>>> for the last thousand or so years.

Is this why the UK is leading the world in deploying surveillance
technology?

Gatso 2: rollout of UK's '24x7 vehicle movement database' begins
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/15/vehicle_movement_database/ 

Watch on the Thames
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112077340647880052-cKyZgAb0T3asU4UDFV
NPWrOAqCY_20060708.html

"The British capital has more surveillance cameras monitoring its citizens
than any other major city in the world." 

UK ministers push for data retention
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/14/uk_ministers_data_retention/

Full biometric ID scheme to reach the UK 'by 2009'
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/chips/0,39020354,39232692,00.htm

The Central London Congestion Charging scheme
http://www.cfit.gov.uk/congestioncharging/factsheets/london/

Smart cards track commuters
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3121652.stm

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org] On
Behalf Of Drsolly
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 11:44 AM
To: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Cc: funsec at linuxbox.org; Blanchard,Michael (InfoSec)
Subject: Re: [funsec] 'Little Red Book' Draws Government's Attention 

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:55:01 EST, "Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)" said:
> > It certainly does seem fishy that the DHS would be monitoring 
> > University's library check out logs....
> 
> Welcome to the PATRIOT Act version of the USA..
> 
> > Also, why would the student be denied access to that book?  This is 
> > STILL the USA and the constitution still applies....
> 
> It's just a goddam piece of paper. The President himself says so. :)
 
There's really no need to have a written constitution. We've done fine
without one for the last thousand or so years.

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