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D.C. Gun Ban Lifted - Thank You Supreme Court!

2008-06-27 02:23:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...ban prohibiting District residents from obtaining handguns. In a WTOP radio interview today, the NRA lobby spokesman, Chris Cox, spoke about the need for cities such as Chicago and San Francisco to fight to have their Second Ammendment rights re-instated Mr. Cox also gave notice to D.C. Mayor Fenty that he would have to honor the Supreme...
 
Tags: mayor, mayor fenty, supreme court, virginia home, virginia, mayor acted, home, law, guns
 
 
 
 
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Congress Moves to Formalize Ban on In-Flight Calling

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2008-08-01 10:48:31 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...ban on in-flight calls: The current ban is regulatory, with the FCC disallowing calls using 850 MHz equipment and the FAA not certifying airworthiness for mobile calls (and not having been asked to do such by the industry, as far as I know). But that's not enough for Congress, and perhaps rightly so The HANG UP Act (Halting Airplane Noise to...
 
Tags: calls, mobile calls, prevent calls, prevent airlines, airlines, regulatory, picocell, low-power picocell, regulatory actions statutory
 
 
 
 
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New Ban Proposed In UK Against Hacker Tools

2008-01-03 18:54:22 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...ban in the UK against dissemination and the eventual use of hacking tools. So if you run a site out of the UK with worm code on your site, that can be used to commit a crime, you should pay attention to whether this law is passed or not I suppose its not dissimilar from putting a handgun in a schoolyard although its really hard to tell intent...
 
Tags: site, law, tools, exploitation materials, intent, bet money, scrupulous types, equipment offshore, researchers alike
 
 
 
 
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India may stop short of BlackBerry ban over security

2008-03-14 00:00:00 by John Ribeiro in Network World on Security
 
...ban of the service as a bargaining counter Sign up for FREE SECURITY AUDIT Resources Advertisement Take a Risk Assessment, get White Papers on the Latest Threats, listen to Malware Expert Webcasts
 
Tags: service, blackberry service, indian service providers, indian government, government, malware expert webcasts, white papers, risk assessment, monitor e-mails
 
 
 
 
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In-Flight VoIP Ban: Against FCC Rules? Highly Desirable?

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2008-09-16 09:50:22 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...banning in-flight VoIP constitutes a violation of FCC rules about blocking services: The Progress and Freedom Foundation's Barbara Espin uses the ban on in-flight VoIP by American Airlines (facilitated by provider Aircell) to make a broader argument about what she calls the FCC's "ad hoc approach to broadband network management issues." It's...
 
Tags: voip, in-flight voip constitutes, in-flight, in-flight voip, block voip calls, fcc rules, fcc, voice calls, calls
 
 
 
 
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Iowa DNR loses personal information on 7,000

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2007-12-19 14:22:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...bans the use of flash drives to back up sensitive information but that the DNR's policy is not as specific Evan] A non-specific policy is doomed to fail as is the entire program built around it The department was already reviewing its security policies when the Salem incident happened and probably will ban the use of flash drives in similar...
 
Tags: iowa dnr, iowa, iowa dnr decides, iowa dnr lost, iowa department, dnr, computer flash drive, drive, information
 
 
 
 
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Nice one, Dick!

2008-02-10 07:19:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...ban on gun possession "unconstitutional". This is the first time the V.P. has gone against the Administration. The V.P. joins 300 senators and representatives who declare that the ban on guns goes against the second ammendment Owners of licensed security companies are sure to be singing Dick's praises tonight. Washington D.C. is known...
 
Tags: owners, business owners, district, gun owners, vice president cheney, guns, wtop radio tonight, law enforcement, discriminatory law
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...ban, sales to the Middle East are often fraught with controversy, particularly to countries like Libya, which was under international sanction for more than a decade. Even as sanctions against it have been lifted, European companies proposing to sell arms to Libya have faced steep criticism, particularly since the country is still ruled by...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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Kevin Mitnick Tells All in Upcoming Book

2008-08-29 11:43:28 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Kevin Mitnick Tells All in Upcoming Book -- Promises No WhiningNow that the statute of limitations has lifted on many of his crimes -- as well as a seven-year court ban prohibiting him from writing about them (the ban ended midnight on January 28, 2007) -- former hacker Kevin Mitnick is telling his story in a book to be published next year
 
Tags: kevin mitnick tells, ban, seven-year court ban, book, hacker kevin mitnick, promises, story, limitations, crimes
 
 
 
 
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Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability - Pick Any Two

2008-11-21 09:50:19 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...Bans Disks, USB Drives The Defense Department's geeks are spooked by a rapidly spreading worm crawling across their networks. So they've suspended the use of so-called thumb drives, CDs, flash media cards, and all other removable data storage devices from their nets, to try to keep the worm from multiplying any further The ban comes from...