See if your ISP, or anyone else, is modifying your web traffic.

Quoted: Social engineering is the technique of circumventing technological security measures by manipulating people to disclose crucial authentication information. In this article, SecurityFocus writer Sarah Granger begins a two-part look at social engineering, including a look at motives, different techniques, and some accounts of successful attacks.

An excellent article on Iran.

Quoted: Why the Iranians see themselves in a very different light

On Nov. 1, the nation's three credit bureaus gave all U.S. consumers the ability to shut down access to their credit reports, making it almost impossible for a stranger to get the data needed to commit financial identity theft. The process is called a security freeze.

When prosecuting the 'war on terror', the administration doesn't let niggling details like whether what they are doing is legal or constitutional (or moral or proper for that matter) slow them down. But when it comes to investigating private guards suddenly they have to be sure there really is a law that covers these guys before they can do a thing.

Quoted: Agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians found that all but three of the shootings were unjustified, officials said.

Implicit is the idea that the folks involved shouldn't face prosecution. Perhaps they should. All the way up the chain.

Quoted: Fear of opening the door to criminal or civil liability appeared to loom large in answers to senators by Michael B. Mukasey, the attorney general nominee.

Quoted: “that if an airline [can’t] get you to your destination on time, it [is] required to put you on a competitor’s flight if it would ...

Ruh Roh.

Quoted: Tensions mounted today as the Turkish government sought parliamentary approval for military action in northern Iraq.

Typical. Since many remote bombs are _known_ to be triggered by cell phones, are cell phones gonna be banned next?

Quoted: Citing “credible specific information” about terror tactics, the Transportation Security Administration stepped up scrutiny of passengers carrying remote-control toys aboard airplanes.