Identity, or rather the concealing of one's identify, on the Internet remains as active a topic of conversation today as it was over a decade ago. However, in the mid- to late-1990s, it was fairly common for people to make up an on-line name that wouldn't be readily...
opinion by Jschneier | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 119 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
A bomb disposal squad officer, center, takes a suspicious box to the police station after diffusing a bomb at Chhatrapati Shivaji train station in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. Police on Wednesday...
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"(NSI News Source Info) November 29, 2008: American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Friday that there was mounting evidence that a Pakistani militant group based in Kashmir, most likely Lashkar-e-Taiba, was responsible for this week’s deadly attacks in...
"By JANE PERLEZ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A redrawn map of South Asia has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites. It shows their country truncated, reduced to an elongated sliver of land with the big bulk of India to the east, and an enlarged Afghanistan to...
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Oh that will really do a lot of good. It's like catching Bin Laden and Bush planning further attacks on America."LONDON, England (CNN) -- In a groundbreaking meeting, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia recently hosted talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban militant...
15 people have been killed in a fire in an apartment building in Osaka, Japan."An Osaka police spokesman says the fire broke out early Wednesday in a video shop located on the first floor of the seven-story building. The spokesman spoke on condition of anonymity, citing...
created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 335 views | 15 recommendations | 5 comments
Ancient things that become new findings are always interesting to find and study" A new species of insect, nicknamed “the ant from Mars” because of its strange and unique physical characteristics, has...
created by Pat Garcia | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 250 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments
"A car bomb exploded at the front gate of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen on Wednesday, killing six Yemeni guards and four civilians, a security official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that the embassy in the Yemeni capital of...
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A United Nations agency is working on standards for tracing Internet traffic by IP address (physical location of originating transmissions), based on a proposal by the Chinese government. I may be straying into...
created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 355 views | 14 recommendations | 2 comments
Some UN staffer involved in Congo mission are reportedly missing after their small plane disappeared on the way to Congo."A small plane believed to be carrying United Nations staffers did not land as scheduled on Monday in the Democratic Republic of Congo and officials were...
I just heard about this from MIchael Alstad, and am so outraged. There are really only two travel funds for artists in Canada, and this is one of them, and it has just been pulled by the Tory government for...
created by kate | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1834 views | 58 recommendations | 24 comments
Doesn't this take away a major plank from Barack Obama's platform?"Iraq and the U.S. are near an agreement on all American combat troops leaving Iraq by October 2010, with the last soldiers out three years after that, two Iraqi officials told The Associated Press on Thursday....
created by BigT | 3 years ago 205 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
"BAGHDAD, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- A roadside bomb explosion struck an Iraqi army patrol in eastern Baghdad on Monday, killing two people and wounding 22 others, an Interior Ministry source said. The bomb explosion hit the military patrol in Palestine Street near Mustansriyah...
The Weather Channel: valued at a reported $3.5 billion. I regret to see it sold to NBC Universal,which, with MSNBC and other companies, is acquiring quite a monopoly."NBC Universal and two partners said Sunday they have reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark...
created by PEP | 3 years ago 193 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Chalk up one for the good guys." Anti-terror police arrested 10 suspected Muslim militants and seized a large cache of high-powered bombs, foiling a major attack targeting Westerners in the Indonesian capital, police and media reports said Thursday. Among those detained was...
created by PEP | 3 years ago 169 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments