One billion RFID cards vulnerable to hacks

Cash is starting to look so much more attractive.  Then again, aren't they also putting RFID in the currency now?"Even as RFID tech grows more and more ubiquitous, fears about its safety and security haven't dwindled -- which is why we're just disappointed, not...

Realtors see steep price drop on homes

"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Home prices continued their plunge during the last three months of 2007, setting a real estate trade group's record for the biggest-ever quarterly drop. The national median price drop of 5.8%, to $206,200 from $219,300, was the steepest ever...

Clean Tech Problems and Solutions Discussed

"Green tech: BOSTON--Even with positive long-term trends at their backs, a huge wave of newly created clean-tech companies will have to navigate a tricky business and regulatory environment to succeed. At the MIT Enterprise Forum's "Power, Drugs, and Money" conference last...

Personal devices subject to search & seizure without warrant or probable cause

Many years ago the courts in the U.S. gave clear interpretations of the laws concerning search of personal information devices:  devices with limited amounts of memory could be searched by police without a warrant - but search of devices with large amounts of memory...

PART 1 'CREATIVE DESTRUCTION' - THE MADNESS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

This is a great piece of journalism!–MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media –February 5, 2008–"Watching the corporate media report the ‘financial crisis’ is instructive. From the perspective of power, it is important that a steadying...