Adam sez, "WikiLeaks has a copy of the 2008 DHS Travel assessment, which includes a number of key findings warning US travelers that their laptops can be searched and seized, that their data can be copied, etc. It then talks about precautions to take to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
Is this a case of 'It's OK for US to do it to you, but not them'?"
now says that credit-card companies and Texas Instruments didn't lean on him to kill a story about vulnerabilities in RFID cards:
"There's been a lot of people who can look at photos and figure this stuff out. Supposedly the pro-surveillance folks are doing it to us. Let’s put our heads together and figure out who AT&T owns in the Democratic party.With Software, Till Tampering Is Hard to Find ( via Geisha Asobi )Armed with full-scale Convention press credentials issued by the DNC, I went -- along with Firedoglake's Jane Hamsher, John Amato, Stoller and others -- in order to create untaxable income: I'm surprised (but shouldn't be) that tills that are left on the restaurateurs' premises are presumed to tamper-proof and to yield accurate counts even when the owner is unscrupulous:Thanks to a software program called a zapper, even technologically illiterate restaurant and store owners can siphon cash from computer cash registers and cheat tax officials.While zappers are most likely to be used by medium and small businesses, the take is anything but small change. A 12-store restaurant chain in Detroit used a zapper to skim more than $20 million over four years, federal prosecutors say.
Zappers — also known as automated sales suppression devices — are a new twist on an old fraud. “The technology is new and getting newer, but the concept is as old as having two sets of books,” said Verenda Smith of the Federation of Tax Administrators, the association of state tax administrators.
