Posted by bruni
on September 08, 2008
Georgia was tricked, but by Russia or US?
Ian Bell on the new cold war
LET’S RUN through this again. Vladimir Putin is not a nice man. The KGB, with whom the young Vlad earned his reputation as a people person, was not Russia’s answer to the Rotary Club. As a direct consequence, Russian traditions of democracy remain wafer thin, a cracked veneer that fails utterly to conceal thuggery, rigged votes, oligarchic mafias, corruption, and the corpses of journalists. Are we clear?
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Posted by bruni
on September 01, 2008
Obama of Hope and Change.
god, i hope not
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Posted by bruni
on August 11, 2008
I heard in a discussion board that you can get around the snooping of your data at the borders by shipping your HDD overnight via mail. (Sense laptops can be seized at the border now for an indefinite time length.)
I just wanna know though what are the security/privacy measures or policies (if any) that have been put into place by FedEx/UPS/ or whoever that protects packages from being opened or confiscated. How does border patrol go about searching mail transports? How secure would this method be?
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