It doesn't have the tabloid appeal the FBI loves...

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=333358

Opinion: Where is the government on cybersecurity?

By Ira Winkler

February 16, 2009 (Computerworld) A couple of recent events have shown how purposefully useless the U.S. government is with regard to cybersecurity. Every so often, the FBI parades some success stories through the media. Unfortunately, what's behind them are prosecutions for show rather than true demonstrations of tackling cybercrime.

For example, U.S. law enforcement had nothing to do with the takedown of McColo, the ISP that was home to major botnet controllers. It's telling that foreign criminal gangs felt comfortable enough to use a U.S.-based service to host their critical servers.

Things that go bump in the night. (You don't suppose this is because they both now use Windows?)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,493425,00.html

British and French Nuclear Subs Crash in Atlantic

Monday, February 16, 2009

… The collision is believed to have taken place on February 3 or 4, in mid-Atlantic. Both subs were submerged and on separate missions.

As inquiries began, naval sources said it was a millions-to-one unlucky chance both subs were in the same patch of sea.

Be careful what you agree to...

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/020587.html

February 15, 2009

New on LLRX.com - E-Discovery Update: Revisiting ESI Agreements and Court Orders

E-Discovery Update: Revisiting ESI Agreements and Court Orders - Conrad J. Jacoby focuses on the new requirement that litigants must meet early in a dispute to discuss the scope of discovery work to reach agreement on how best to proceed with the discovery of potentially relevant electronically stored information (“ESI”). What happens, though, when fundamental assumptions used to reach agreement at that early stage in the case turn out to be incorrect?

There are probably a lot of theories on this. Let me add one that I quote often in my Statistics class: “Half the world is below average.” (So they have some growing to do...)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10164458-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Facebook hits 175 million user mark

by Steven Musil February 15, 2009 10:30 AM PST

A little more than a month after announcing it had 150 million active users, Facebook has reached 175 million active users--the statistic the social-networking site prefers to use, rather than registered accounts overall.

Dave Morin, who runs Facebook's application platform team, announced the milestone Friday evening on his Twitter/FriendFeed. Facebook reached 150 million just more than two months after reaching 120 million and about four months after reaching 100 million.

Related

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/1347230&from=rss

Facebook's New Terms of Service

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 16, @09:05AM from the are-we-really-worried-about-this dept. Privacy Social Networks

An anonymous reader writes

"Chris Walters writes about Facebook's new terms of service. 'Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.'"

Oh no! Now they'll be able to license your super flair goblin poke 25 tag history! [I have no idea what that is... Bob]