Terror threat on EasyJet UK-bound flight emergency landing
was 'false alarm'
An Easyjet flight made an emergency landing in Germany
after British passengers were overheard talking about a “bomb”, it has emerged.
… Police have
given few details of the investigation, but according to unconfirmed German
press reports its is now thought the emergency was a false alarm and the plane
was never in danger.
Passengers were evacuated from the aircraft by emergency
slides, and one of the three men’s bags was destroyed in a controlled
explosion.
But a search of the
destroyed bag and aircraft found no trace of an explosive device or other
hazardous materials.
… German police have not commented on the content of
the conversation beyond saying it had “terrorist content”, but according to
details leaked to the German media the men were talking about “a bomb or
explosives.”
Concerned passengers alerted the cabin crew. They told the captain, who decided to divert
to Cologne.
… “We searched the
plane with sniffer dogs all night,” a police spokesman told Bild newspaper. “There were no traces of explosives in the
aircraft or in the suspects’ luggage.”
Why not just say, “We don’t want to?”
NSA backtracks on sharing number of Americans caught in
warrant-less spying
For more than a year, U.S. intelligence officials
reassured lawmakers they were working to calculate and reveal roughly how many
Americans have their digital communications vacuumed up under a warrant-less
surveillance law intended to target foreigners overseas.
This week, the Trump
administration backtracked, catching lawmakers off guard and alarming civil
liberties advocates who say it is critical to know as Congress weighs changes
to a law expiring at the end of the year that permits some of the National
Security Agency's most sweeping espionage.
… Coats
said "it remains infeasible to generate an exact, accurate, meaningful,
and responsive methodology that can count how often a U.S. person's
communications may be collected" under the law known as Section 702 of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
He told the Senate
Intelligence Committee that even if he dedicated more resources the NSA would
not be able to calculate an estimate, which privacy experts have said could be
in the millions.
The statement ran counter
to what senior intelligence officials had previously promised both publicly and
in private briefings during the previous administration of President Barack
Obama, a Democrat, lawmakers and congressional staffers working on drafting
reforms to Section 702 said.
Computer Forensics and Ethical Hacking
Perspective. I
wonder if there is someone who can evaluate these programs objectively?
The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools
In San Francisco’s public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief
executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000
“innovation grants” and encouraging them to behave more like start-up founders
and less like bureaucrats.
In Maryland,
Texas, Virginia and other states, Netflix’s chief, Reed Hastings, is
championing a popular math-teaching program where Netflix-like algorithms
determine which lessons students see.
And in more than 100 schools nationwide, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s
chief, is testing one of his latest big ideas: software that puts children in
charge of their own learning, recasting their teachers as facilitators and
mentors.
In the space of
just a few years, technology giants have begun remaking the very nature of
schooling on a vast scale, using some of the same techniques that have made
their companies linchpins of the American economy. Through their philanthropy, they are
influencing the subjects that schools teach, the classroom tools that teachers
choose and fundamental approaches to learning.
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