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Callous snow-plow-blade thieves violate first rule of security cameras

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Not that much is expected of your garden-variety thieves, but stealing a 500-pound snow plow blade from a fire department in the dead of winter requires an elevated level of disregard for the wellbeing of your fellow citizens.

Such a brazen theft in this era of ubiquitous surveillance also requires a surprisingly common breed of cluelessness, as the act violates the first rule of security cameras: They are everywhere.

I note this particular case of reckless stupidity in part because the occupants of the pickup pictured above victimized the fire department and residents of North Attleboro, Mass., my hometown, when they attached the blade to their truck and drove off. Friends and former neighbors were put at risk.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Does this Marilyn Monroe impersonator violate RSA’s ban on booth babes?

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When it became public last month that “booth babes” would be banned from this week’s RSA Conference, most applauded. However, others warned that the subjectivity of such a dress code – language here and at bottom of this post — would make the policy problematic.

Meet Marilyn Monroe impersonator Camille Larrea, pictured above. She was working the RSA booth of SIEM vendor AccelOps.

Booth babe?

RSA says no.

But trust me when I tell you it depends on who you ask, because I put the question and picture out to a bunch of trade-show savvy colleagues and of the 11 who responded, six say we’re looking at a booth babe whose presence violates the new RSA policy … and five insist the first six are wrong.

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Network World Paul McNamara

FBI’s National Security Letter gag orders violate 1st Amendment, ruled unconstitutional

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On Friday, a federal judge in the Ninth Circuit Court ruled that gag orders accompanying National Security Letters are unconstitutional!
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NSA claims it would violate Americans’ privacy to say how many of us it spied on

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Would you believe the Inspector General from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it would violate the privacy of Americans for the IG office to tell us how many people in the United States had their privacy violated via the NSA warrantless wiretap powers which were granted under the FISA Amendment Act of 2008? Read more

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