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Could employers begin asking for Facebook passwords on applications?

Mike Wehner
Tecca
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:36 UTC
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© SportzTawkJob seekers asked to throw their privacy out the window

For all the good it can do, social networking also has its share of downsides. Putting personal information of any kind on the internet raises plenty of privacy concerns on its own, and handing over your username and password can be like giving away the keys to your very identity. But if you're in the process of seeking new employment, that may be exactly what you'll have to do.

The image below is a snapshot of an application from North Carolina for a clerical position at a police department. One of the required pieces of information is a disclosure of any social networking accounts, along with the username and password to access them.

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© SportzTawkDoes this job application cross the line?
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Smartphones Vulnerable To Snooping


redOrbit
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:36 UTC
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A smartphone security researcher said he has found hidden software in Android, Nokia and BlackBerry smartphones that secretly tracks their users' activities.

Trevor Eckhart said he has uncovered a piece of spyware that tracks the phone's location even if the user disables location services. The software also logs every keystroke, ignores the "Force stop" button, and Eckhart said it is impossible to remove.

The California company behind the software defended the software as a tool for mobile network operators.

"Our software is designed to help mobile network providers diagnose critical issues that lead to problems such as dropped calls and battery drain," Carrier IQ said in a press statement. It denied the software logged keystrokes or tracked smartphone users.

"While we look at many aspects of a device's performance, we are counting and summarizing performance, not recording keystrokes or providing tracking tools. The metrics and tools we derive are not designed to deliver such information, nor do we have any intention of developing such tools," it said.

"The information gathered by Carrier IQ is done so for the exclusive use of that customer, and Carrier IQ does not sell personal subscriber information to third parties. The information derived from devices is encrypted and secured within our customer's network or in our audited and customer-approved facilities," Carrier IQ explained in the statement.

However, Eckhart's 17-minute video showed that Control IQ, buried deep inside an Android-powered smartphone, recorded every button pressed, recorded his search queries, text messages, and even his locations.
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Best of the Web: The Serpentine Stealth Of The Long Range Planners

Zen Gardner
Before It's News
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:05 UTC
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This overwhelming yet cleverly obscured phenomenon of extremely patient, devious long range planning by the changing guard of the "powers that be" is of paramount importance.

The 'patience of the planners' aspect eventually becomes evident to any sincere researcher, and literally haunts and even taunts with its seductive perfidy. Even putting your finger on this slippery subject is a chore, since we don't think like they do and have a hard time even conceiving of such inter-generational, pathological conniving, the complete fulfillment of which most would knowingly not see in their lifetimes. It's beyond us.

And that's the key. They're not normal. Something very powerful and sinister is driving them.

Fully developed conscious humans wouldn't plot and scheme for generations to take over the world at any cost to its inhabitants. Most humans inherently trust and positively contribute in conscious, natural ways, endeavoring to pass on to their progeny loving wisdom and a better world. We natural born citizens believe in the decency of humanity and that natural and spiritual laws are clearly delineated via the simplest observations of the world around us and the revelations of our awakened conscience.

Love and truth are not all that complicated. Naturally.
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US: Surprise! Ron Paul Only Candidate Not Invited to the Republican Jewish Coalition Forum

Adam Kredo
Washington Jewish Week
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:24 UTC
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Update: What's the deal with Ron Paul and the RJC? See below.

When seven of the top Republican presidential candidates gather next week at a forum hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition, they will "unequivocally put to bed the political smears" regarding aid to Israel that have been promulgated by the Democratic National Committee and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz (D-Fla), according to RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks.

In an interview earlier today, Brooks gave me a preview of what to expect at the RJC's 2012 Republican Presidential Candidates Forum, which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday of next week at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. The event will feature remarks and speeches by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Amb. Jon Huntsman, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Gov. Mitt Romney and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.). (Note that Texas Rep. Ron Paul, no good friend of Israel, will not be in the house.)

Each of the candidates, Brooks said, will make an effort to "put to bed the political smears by the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Shultz that the leading Republicans want to cut aid to Israel."
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US: Fed Grants $7.77 Trillion in Secret Bank Loans

DJKucinich
YouTube
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:12 UTC
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime advocate for reform of the Federal Reserve, is sharply criticizing the Federal Reserve today after Bloomberg news reported that the Federal Reserve secretly committed nearly $8 trillion in support to American and international financial institutions during the 2008 bailout. Kucinich recorded a video for his website before going to the floor of the House of Representatives to call upon Congress to reclaim its Constitution primacy over monetary policy.


Now Do You Understand Occupy Wall Street?

Comment: Do you recall what happened yesterday? Central banks move to shore up financial system. "Joining in the move were: the Fed, The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank, the Fed said."

More money, world wide, being printed out of thin air?

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Sanctions are only a small part of the history that makes Iranians hate the UK

Robert Fisk
The Independent
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:42 UTC
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© APProtesters storm the British embassy in Tehran yesterday
It's a weird irony that Iranians know the history of Anglo-Persian relations better than the Brits. When the newly installed Ministry of Islamic Guidance asked Harvey Morris, Reuters' man in post-revolutionary Iran, for a history of his news agency, he asked his London office to send him a biography of Baron von Reuter - and was appalled to discover the founder of the world's greatest news agency had built Persia's railways at an immense profit. "How can I show this to the ministry?" he shouted. "It turns out that the Baron was worse than the fucking Shah!" Of which, of course, the ministry was well aware.

Britain staged a joint invasion of Iran with Soviet forces when the Shah's predecessor got a bit too close to the Nazis in World War Two and then helped the Americans overthrow the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 after he nationalised Britain's oil possessions in the country.

This was not a myth but a real, down-to-earth conspiracy. The CIA called it Operation Ajax; the Brits wisely kept their ambitions in check by calling it Operation Boot. MI6's agent in Tehran was Colonel Monty Woodhouse, previously our Special Operations Executive man inside German-occupied Greece. I knew "Monty" well - we co-operated together when I investigated the grim wartime career of ex-UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim - and he was a ruthless man. Woodhouse brought weapons into Iran for a still non-existent "resistance" movement and he eagerly supported the CIA's project to fund the "bazaaris" of Tehran to stage demonstrations (in which, of course, hundreds, perhaps thousands, died) to overthrow Mossadegh.
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To Americans: Israel Not Worth Destruction of US


FARS News Agency
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:14 UTC
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Tehran - Is Israel worth the destruction of the American nation? This is the main question many Americans are asking themselves these days while the US is in the midst of a confrontation with Iran, Syria and many other Muslim nations.

An Israeli official recently said that Zionists' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to persuade his Cabinet to authorize a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities - a discussion that comes as Israel successfully tests a missile believed capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to Iran.

Pakistan, an Islamic country with its own eschatologies, is estimated to have around 100 nuclear warheads. Israel, or better to say the Occupied Palestine a country the size of New Jersey, has, by some estimates, at least 200 nuclear warheads and perhaps as many as 400, some of which are certainly hydrogen (thermonuclear) bombs.
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Teampoison posts stolen United Nations credentials online

Phil Muncaster
V3
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:01 UTC
TeaMp0isoN, the hacking group linked to hacktivist collective Anonymous, has posted the log-in details of over 1,000 United Nations employees online in an attempt to highlight what it perceives to be corruption at the organisation.

The details, including email addresses, passwords and log-ins, were posted to Pastebin, and the perpetrators branded the UN a "Senate for Global Corruption".
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BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps

Dan Goodin
The Register
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:03 UTC
Researcher says seeing is believing

An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users.

In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he had reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration. Using a packet sniffer while his device was in airplane mode, he demonstrated how each numeric tap and every received text message is logged by the software.

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"China Will Not Hesitate To Protect Iran Even With A Third World War"

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:42 UTC
Fast forward to 2:08: "It is puzzling to some that Major General Zhang Zhaozhong, a professor from the Chinese National Defense University, said China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third World War... Professor Xia Ming: "Zhang Zhaozhong said that not hesitating to fight a third world war would be entirely for domestic political needs...." And don't forget Russia, which recently said it is preparing to retaliate against NATO and has put radar stations on combat alert: "Russia is another ally of Iran, with similar policy to that of China. Toward Iran." Watch, and please forward the entire video, for an explanation of how China is approaching the situation not only in Iran, but a perspective of how they view the western "threat", as well as what tensions they face domestically.
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