More Mark Fiore brilliance.
Via The San Francisco Chronicle.
- ferg
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
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obama's houseMonday, March 21, 2011
Man Charged With Hiring Pump-and-Dump Spam Botnet
Robert McMillan writes on ComputerWorld:
More here.
A Texas man was charged Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice with helping to inflate the prices of penny stock companies by promoting them with a spam-spewing botnet of hacked computers.
Christopher Rad, of Cedar Park, Texas, faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on charges that he acted as a middleman between unscrupulous stock promoters and Russian hackers, who operated the botnet.
Rad allegedly worked with another man, James Bragg, to make the companies' stock-prices move in a scheme that ran between November 2007 and February 2009. In October 2010, Bragg pleaded guilty to his role in the scheme. No date has been set for his sentencing.
Prosecutors say that the two men promoted penny stocks for now-defunct companies such as RSUV (Remote Surveillance Technologies) and VSHE ( VShield Software). They did this not only by using the botnet to spam would-be investors, but also by having their Russian hackers take over brokerage accounts and purchase the stocks they were pumping, so it would look like the companies had market momentum.
More here.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
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michael jacksonIn today’s “Fool, Stop Lying” report, Mocienne Petit Jackson has been called out on her claims that she was Michael Jackson’s illegitimate daughter.
Mocienne, which must be French-hood for “crazy,” was claiming that her mommy, Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee (as in Diana Ross’ sister) had an affair with a young Michael Jackson that produced her.
And then, she was like, sent away to live with Shamu and the old woman in the shoe to prevent Michael’s image from being damaged. Or something.
Well, Dr. Ross-Lee spoke to TMZ and confirmed that she’s out of her mind.
They report:
TMZ just spoke to Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee, who tells us she’s pretty damn sure that Mocienne Petit Jackson “is not my daughter” — adding MPJ is “delusional” and calls the situation nothing short of “bizarre.”
Dr. Ross-Lee also points out a major hole in MPJ’s story — saying it would have been impossible for her to have conceived a baby with Michael back in 1975 … because she never even met the guy.
Dr. Ross-Lee says there was a time when MPJ “was really harassing me at my office” — and was forced to have her employer contact the police to get MPJ to stop.
According to Dr. Ross-Lee, she responded to one of MPJ’s emails a few years ago to tell her she was mistaken and to wish her well.
Mocienne was looking to get a DNA test and custody of MJ’s children for checks. Here’s to hoping a therapist finds her soon.
michael jacksonMichael Joseph Jackson[1] (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, dancer, singer-songwriter, musician, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
michael jacksonIn the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style have influenced numerous hip hop, pop, contemporary R&B, and rock artists.
michael jacksonJackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best-selling album of all time. His other records, including Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and HIStory (1995), were also rank among the world's best-selling. Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. He was also inducted into the Dance Hall of Fame as the first (and currently only) dancer from the world of pop and rock 'n' roll. Some of his other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records; 13 Grammy Awards (as well as the Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award); 26 American Music Awards (more than any other artist, including the "Artist of the Century"); 13 number-one singles in the United States in his solo career (more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era); and the estimated sale of over 750 million records worldwide. Jackson won hundreds of awards, which have made him one of the most-awarded recording artists in the history of music
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michael jacksonSaturday, March 19, 2011
Welcome, Rainy Springtime
Welcome, Spring 2011.
I'm already sick of rain, wind, and darkness.
Summer can't come fast enough.
Yes, I know we're spoiled here in Northern California -- while the rest of the country has been pounded by snow and bitter cold, we have only had to deal with a little rain and cool weather.
On a better note, we're no longer in a drought emergency situation in Northern California for the first time in a while.
- ferg
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Revealed: U.S. Spy Operation That Manipulates Social Media
Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain write on The Guardian:
More here.
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.
A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.
The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.
The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as "sock puppets" – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same.
More here.
EU Lawmakers Upset by Poor Protection of Swift Banking Data
Jennifer Baker writes on PC World:
More here.
A second review of the controversial Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) has done little to allay European parliamentarians' fears of poor data security.
Last week an internal report by Europol, the European police force charged with overseeing the accord, sparked anger among Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) when it revealed that the written requests made by the U.S. for European banking data were too vague to assess whether they meet European Union data standards. But Europol went ahead and rubber-stamped them anyway. Many members of the Parliament's civil liberties committee said they felt betrayed.
On Wednesday, Isabel Cruz, chairwoman of Europol's internal oversight unit, explained that additional oral information was provided to Europol staff by the U.S. authorities, but that the content of that information is not known, again making it impossible to verify compliance with the TFTP agreement. Her report recommended that in the future, requests must contain more detailed information, specific to each request, and the U.S. authorities may need to provide certain additional information.
The TFTP (also known as the Swift agreement) came into force last August and allows the transfer of European citizens' banking data to the U.S. under certain conditions. One of these was that a high degree of data protection would be enforced and that Europol would oversee the implementation. Under Article 4 of the agreement Europol has the task of verifying U.S. requests for data. However, "we always said it had to be a legal, judicial body to verify the legality of these requests. Europol has a role which is extremely confusing," said Cruz.
More here.
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