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rental in al raha gardens

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:07:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dubaiinternetmarketing.com

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travel to canada passport requirements

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:13:21 GMT

clipped by: jaluvic

Clip Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com

Sunday, August 24, 2008 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

: For land travel — driving, train, bus — between the U.S. and Canada, you don't need a passport yet. However, air travelers are required to have a passport for all flights between the two countries. For your drive to Canada via Blaine you'll be fine with your proof of U.S. citizenship (your birth certificate) and government-issued photo ID (your driver's license). Starting next year, likely in June, a passport or other federally approved ID — such as the new U.S. passport card or the Washington enhanced driver's license — must be used for all travel between the two countries. A firm date hasn't been announced yet. For more information on ID requirements for U.S.-Canada travel, see the Web site of the Department of Homeland Security, www.dhs.gov/xtrvlsec/crossingborders/.

Homeland Security Phones Hacked, 400 Calls to Middle East and Asia

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:57:58 GMT

clipped by: blueridge
clipper's remarks: and it was very easy to do. Someone wanted to hide their call records it appears and this was the best way to do it.

Clip Source: www.startribune.com

FEMA phones hacked; more than 400 calls made to Middle East and Asia at cost of $12,000

WASHINGTON - A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia.

The hacker made more than 400 calls on a Federal Emergency Management Agency voicemail system in Emmitsburg, Md., on Saturday and Sunday, according to FEMA spokesman Tom Olshanski.

FEMA is part of Homeland Security, which in 2003 put out a warning about this very vulnerability.

The voicemail system is new and recently was installed. It is a Private Branch Exchange, or PBX, a traditional corporate phone network that is used in thousands of companies and government offices. Many companies are moving to a higher tech version, known as Voice Over Internet Telephony.

"In this case it's sort of embarrassing that it happened to FEMA themselves — FEMA being a child of DHS, with calls going to the Middle East," Johnson said.

Tags: homeland security, fema, surveillance, voip calling

Domestic Spying, Inc.

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:36:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.warprofiteers.com

Domestic Spying, Inc.

by Tim Shorrock , Special to CorpWatch
November 27th, 2007

A new intelligence institution to be inaugurated soon by the Bush administration will allow government spying agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the United States for the first time. Under a proposal being reviewed by Congress, a National Applications Office (NAO) will be established to coordinate how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and domestic law enforcement and rescue agencies use imagery and communications intelligence picked up by U.S. spy satellites. If the plan goes forward, the NAO will create the legal mechanism for an unprecedented degree of domestic intelligence gathering that would make the U.S. one of the world's most closely monitored nations. Until now, domestic use of electronic intelligence from spy satellites was limited to scientific agencies with no responsibility for national security or law enforcement.

American detained by DHS, dies from cancer

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:02:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands

Hiu Lui Ng was a New Yorker: a computer engineer with a job in the Empire State Building, a house in Queens, a wife who is a United States citizen and two American-born sons.

But when Mr. Ng, who had overstayed a visa years earlier, went to immigration headquarters in Manhattan last summer for his final interview for a green card, he was swept into immigration detention and shuttled through jails and detention centers in three New England states.

In April, Mr. Ng began complaining of excruciating back pain. By mid-July, he could no longer walk or stand. And last Wednesday, two days after his 34th birthday, he died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Rhode Island hospital, his spine fractured and his body riddled with cancer that had gone undiagnosed and untreated for months.

How far will the border security go!?!

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:16:37 GMT

clipped by: billdeys
clipper's remarks: So you have to give them your username and password to access your computer and there looking at data on the laptop and mentioned data accessed from the laptop, VPN’s and such, so do you have to give them a VPN password? This seam like it’s going a little far, I can access any of my information, I keep a lot in the cloud, so they can force me to allow them access because I brought a computer. What if I bring a clean machine with NO data, not even a browser history? Then whats next, I have to register my passwords at the border when I’m not even bringing a computer? Because I can get to my info from any net connected PC!

Clip Source: yro.slashdot.org

With the recent attention to the DHS's draconian policy on laptop searches at borders, a blog post by Steven Bellovin from last month is worth wider discussion. Bellovin extrapolates from the DHS border policy on physical electronic devices and asks why authorities wouldn't push to extend it to electronic data transfers. "...it would seem to make little difference if the information is 'imported' into the US via a physical laptop or via a VPN, or for that matter by a Web connection. The right to search a laptop for information, then, is equivalent to the right to tap any and all international connections, without a warrant or probable cause. (More precisely, one always has a constitutional protection against 'unreasonable' search and seizure; the issue is what the definition of 'unreasonable' is.)"

DHS: Federal border agents can "detain" your computer indefinitely, without cause

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:59:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Federal security agents can confiscate anyone's laptop or any information storage device (including any and all papers you're travelling with), share the contents with any third party they wish, and keep the material indefinitely, without cause.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border

No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

Also, officials may share copies of the laptop's contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16 and issued by two DHS agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The policies cover "any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form," including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes.

Customs Deputy Commissioner Jayson P. Ahern said the efforts "do not infringe on Americans' privacy."

Tags: computers, gwot, civil_rights, privacy, travel, dhs, news

The Secrecy of the Feds Cyber Security Program

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:29:43 GMT

clipped by: blueridge
clipper's remarks: Homeland Security is Homeland Secrecy, for this anti-constitutional agency that is. You are not permitted any privacy about you under this new government. CNet tried to find facts about this internet security program but was thwarted.

The more secret a government is the less it is a government by and for the people.

Clip Source: news.cnet.com

DHS stays mum on new 'Cyber Security' center

The Bush administration's newly created National Cyber Security Center remains shrouded in secrecy, with officials refusing to release information about its budget, what contractors will run it, and how its mission relates to Internet surveillance.

In correspondence with the U.S. Senate posted on Thursday, the Bush administration said it would not provide that information publicly. An 18-page, partially redacted letter from DHS said that disclosure could affect "the conduct of federal programs, or other programs or operations essential to the interests of our nation."

The censored letter--a nonredacted, "For Official Use Only" version was provided to senators--came in response to queries from the top Democratic and Republican members of the Senate's Homeland Security committee.

Oddly, DHS seemed to change its mind about whether even the mere existence of the National Cyber Security Center was classified or not.

Tags: internet, cyber security, homeland security

DHS Can Now Seize and Destroy Your iPod For No Reason

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:16:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Travellers to the U.S. could have their laptops and other electronic devices seized at the airport under new anti-terror measures.

They do not even need grounds to suspect wrongdoing.

The extent of the new powers, which have been secretly in place for some time, was revealed yesterday in the Washington Post.

They cover hard drives, flash drives, mobile phones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes, as well as books, pamphlets and other written materials, the report said.

Copies of data must be destroyed when a review is completed and no probable cause exists to keep the information.

DHS officials insisted the policies were reasonable and necessary to prevent terrorism.

Tags: homeland security

Customs agents can take your laptop.

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:10:57 GMT

clipped by: falconz
clipper's remarks: What?!? "Yeah, i need to confiscate your MacBook Air Pro because my nephew always wanted one...ugh! I mean, just because I can."

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers' laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday.

Under recently disclosed Department of Homeland Security policies, such seizures may be carried out without suspicion of wrongdoing, the newspaper said, quoting policies issued on July 16 by two DHS agencies.

DHS officials said the policies applied to anyone entering the country, including U.S. citizens, and were needed to prevent terrorism.

Tags: government, abuse

Travelers Laptops may be detained at border

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:36:09 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: Absent indivualized suspicion.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

This may take place "absent individualized suspicion."

The policies cover "any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form," including hard drives, flash drives, cellphones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes. They also cover "all papers and other written documentation," including books, pamphlets and "written materials commonly referred to as 'pocket trash' or 'pocket litter

Tags: us customs, us government, bush administration, erosion of freedom, war on terror, dhs

D.A. says saving Danieal was 'too much trouble' for DHS workers

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:28:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.philly.com

AS DANIEAL KELLY slowly starved to death, the girl's DHS social worker sat back at his desk, where he apparently stuffed his face and tossed crumpled food wrappers into a cardboard box that contained Danieal's trash-buried case file, according to a grand-jury report released yesterday.

For two years, complaints about Danieal's well-being landed on Dana Poindexter's desk. At least five times, people called DHS to report that Danieal, a disabled child with cerebral palsy, wasn't being properly cared for and wasn't in school. They said she screamed all day and was essentially imprisoned in a dark room without food or drink.

DHS’s care for an ailing girl was lacking, and she died.

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:16:59 GMT

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Clip Source: www.philly.com

In the most searing dissection yet of Philadelphia's child-welfare agency, a grisly grand-jury report yesterday found that a 14-year-old girl rotted in her bed because of the system's brutal indifference.

Prosecutors charged that nine people, including the girl's parents and four social workers, stood by while Danieal Kelly, who had cerebral palsy, starved to death.

Can't believe this, sincerely!!!

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:24:56 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: U.S. agents can seize travelers' laptops:
report

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers' laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold then for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday

Agents are empowered to share the contents of seized computers with other agencies and private entities for data decryption and other reasons, the newspaper said.

DHS officials said the policies applied to anyone entering the country, including U.S. citizens, and were needed to prevent terrorism.

measures have long been in place but were only disclosed in July, under pressure from civil liberties and business travel groups acting on reports that increasing numbers of international travelers had had their laptops, cellphones and other digital devices removed and examined

DHS Quietly Increases Terrorist Threat Level

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:59:40 GMT

clipped by: Wisco
clipper's remarks: Just in time for the elections. Just as before, DHS cites "no specifics" for the fears.

Clip Source: rawstory.com

ABC News' Pierre Thomas says DHS officials are "quietly declaring" that the US is entering a "Period of Heightened Alert" because of the upcoming Olympics, the Democratic and Republican conventions, the November elections and the fact that a new president will be taking office in January. Officials tell Thomas the next 11 months will be "a time frame when terrorists may have more incentive to attack."

Accusations of politicization haunted DHS's decision to move the nation's color-coded advisory system from yellow, or elevated risk, to orange, or high risk, just three months before the 2004 election. (A week after President Bush was re-elected, the agency returned the advisory back to yellow.)

This time around, DHS isn't changing colors, Thomas reports, because the "do not want to be accused of trying to inject themselves into the presidential campaign."

Instead, apparently, anonymous officials are simply passing unspecific warnings to a correspondent for a national television network.

Tags: news