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Just to make it on-topic: there was a flurry of media attention paid to these two girls back in May, but it seems to have died out in the wake of the Smart case. Perhaps no new clues means no new press attention.

Just to make it on-topic: there was a flurry of media attention paid to these two girls back in May, but it seems to have died out in the wake of the Smart case. Perhaps no new clues means no new press attention.

Just to make it on-topic: there was a flurry of media attention paid to these two girls back in May, but it seems to have died out in the wake of the Smart case. Perhaps no new clues means no new press attention.

Hey, don't forget, the bounty on just turning in bin Laden and the doctor is up to total of $52 million, and you don't even have to actually kill them, but that would be an added bonus for me at least. I'd love to get within 400M of either of them, from that range it be a safe, but effective kill.

YEAH RIGHT!

You stupid fuckers could not even find this guy in a fucking desert for god sake!

I mean get a grip, there is nothing but sand and you still can not find this guy!

You guys are fucking useless.

IANAL - but...
I just finished reading all of Buckeye's Terms of Service (pdf) , Acceptable Use (pdf) , Residential Agreement(pdf) , etc. Nowhere in the text does it say that you have a limit on the amount of bandwidth you can use nor does it limit the type of use other that 'illegal activities' (Warez,etc.). I'll be interested to see what type of charge they come up with. It can't be theft of any kind - unless they didn't even subscribe to the service.

This is just another example of Cowboy police (local,State, & Federal) not even researching if any crime was committed before reacting. They are just trying to intimidate citizens and use gestapo tactics. I think we all should let both the company and the law know how we feel. Then these people should file a class-action lawsuit against them.

Federal Bureau of Investigation
111 Washington Avenue South, Suite 1100
Minneapolis, MN 55401
Phone: (612) 376-3200 Fax: (612) 376-3249
Email: minneapolis@fbi.gov

Mike

Federal Bureau of Investigation
111 Washington Avenue South, Suite 1100
Minneapolis, MN 55401
Phone: (612) 376-3200 Fax: (612) 376-3249
Email: minneapolis@fbi.gov

Mike

Well I know who should *not* be in charge of the new mailstorage format standard, I guess These boys are not yet capable of getting the right mail in the right place.... and keeping it there, although it would be cool if they released the carnivore source just so wo could add carnivore format file import to evolution ;-)

At http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex.htm, where you'll also find Einsteins and various others FBI acts.

Law enforcement agents have to do ONE thing and ONE thing only.

One need only look at the FBI's mandate to know that this statement is untrue:

The FBI's investigative functions fall into the categories of applicant matters; civil rights; counterterrorism; foreign counterintelligence; organized crime/drugs; violent crimes and major offenders; and financial crime.

The police have an investigative role to determine if a crime has been committed as well as responsibility to catch the perps. This role also involves patroling to look for signs of a crime being committed.

Part of the purpose of patroling is to prevent or discourage crime by raising the chance that criminals will be caught in the act.

No police force simply sits in the precinct station by the phone waiting for citizens to report a crime, although no doubt the criminals wish they would.

Right here.

You left out an option WRT to paperbacks. Scan each page as an image. Distribute as PDF or HTML bundle. With a page-feeding scanner (they do make those, right?) or a decent digital camera and a little bit of very unsophisticated software, this process is largely automatic and probably not even that time-consuming. This method reduces entirely the analog issues encountered with photocopying and doesn't require the extra effort of OCR. This method also has the benefit of preserving layout and illustrations exactly. I have heard, but not seen, that there is a small warez-type scene that does this already, but that it will grow in the near future seems inevitable. Even the FBI is involved (legally of course), check out their FOIA Reading Room. Keep in mind that once the scans are done, duplication is nearly instant and no further degradation of quality is found.

Three guys grabbed him, showed him the knife and said "Play nice". They hailed a cab, put him in it, and said "Take us to your apartment," which he did.

These guys were obviously well-connected, given their total lack of concern about witnesses. I think the residents of this city have problems that are a lot more serious and basic than laptop theft!

Agreed.

An interesting statistic -- generally an attacker with a knife is much more likely to cut a victim to 'show he means business' than an attacker with a gun. Generally, people attacked by a gun-wielding assaliant are less likely to be injured.

• http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
• http://www.shadeslanding.com/firearms/kleck.study. html

The US government is already monitoring citizens without the help of Cisco.
See Carnivore and Magic Lantern

As Morpheus would say: "Welcome... to the real world."

The US could, by legislation, prohibit U.S. companies from assisting with censorship in selected countries. There's an analogy to the Arab boycott of Israel [us-israel.org], which led to lobbying by Israel for U.S. laws prohibiting American companies from cooperating with the Arab boycott.

You are absolutely right. Legislation should quickly pass the law to cease the operation of immoral companies whom allow keylogging software from spying citizens' activities. Also, American companies should also join the boycott of the oppressive Government who creates a big database monitoring citizens' emails.

Oh wait.

Carnivore and Magic Lantern, Great Firewall of China is just a child-play. Btw, they will eventually catch-up with this(especially in this area).

Sec. 2. Definition and Policy.

(a) The term "individual subject to this order" shall mean any individual who is not a United States citizen with respect to whom I determine from time to time in writing that:

1. there is reason to believe that such individual, at the relevant times,

   (ii) has conspired to commit, acts in preparation of international terrorism, that threaten to cause adverse effects on the United States economy;

   and

2. it is in the interest of the United States that such individual be subject to this order.

"the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives."

So, for example, if "there is reason to believe" that activists in the U.S. and another country intend to pour sugar in the gas tanks of trucks of some large corporation, and it is believed that this action threatens "to cause adverse effects on the United States economy", then they are alleged international terrorists and this order can be applied.

It could very well be that the activists intend to do an internationally-coordinated act of civil-disobedience by lying down in front of the trucks, but there might be "reason to believe" that some will go a bit further.

And while Bush's order also covers much more heinous crimes, the fact is that his order applies to just this sort of protest.

That "junior D.A." would be
Robert S. Mueller, III. He is now director of the FBI. I would say he got what he wanted.

You'd think this would be an easy distinction to understand: We live in a country where 10 children are killed by hand guns every day. But Smith and Wesson doesn't worry that the FBI will come arrest them because someone used their technology to commit a crime.

The point is valid. But the statistic is bogus. You are echoing a big-lie propaganda sound bite as if it were a fact, when the true numbers are actually more than an order of magnitude lower.

Judges (and others, both in the general public and in policy-making offices) are becoming aware of the actual numbers. So continued use of this lie in arguments will tend to discredit the rest of your argument.

It is also a hotbutton issue, with the opposing view held by members of a subculture which constitutes about half the voting population. So by using a well-known big-lie from one side of this unrelated debate you risk instantly alienating half your audience.

Ten per day comes out to 3650 per (non-leap) year.

According to the National Safety Council, 230 children under the age of 15 were killed in firearms-related accidents in 1991. (That's the latest year for which figures are available at the time of the composition of the rec.guns FAQ found here.)

According to the most recent FBI Uniform Crime report (2000), available here, murder and negligent homicide of children ages 0 through 12 (by ALL means, not just firearms) totaled only 641. (The bulk of those were infants, implying most were killed by abuse or neglect rather than with-firearm murder.)

The numbers jump beginning with the 13 thorugh 16 age group, as gang-related murders begin to dominate the stats. But to get to "ten children killed by handugns per day" you need to consider "childhood" to extent into the mid-thirties.

So I recommend that, if you wish to continue using the analogy in future argumnets on the subject, you drop the bogus statistic. You can make the point even better using a real one ("robbers use handguns to kill two people per day"), or skipping the stats entirely, thus minimizing the risk of offending people who otherwise would be your allies.

As a computer security professional, I am often reminded of that quote when I read about new networking technologies. And I stop to ask myself: is the added convenience of adopting this technology really worth the potential risk of allowing complete strangers who might not have our best interests in mind to access our networks and see our traffic?

The classic counterargument that I usually hear to my pessimitic remarks is something along the lines of "encryption is a panacea," in so many words. But is it really? Is the HomePlug(tm) product really designed well enough to keep intruders from peeking into my personal life? Well, let's think about a couple of points:

• Encryption schemes get weakened or broken. That makes a "useless" collection of your sniffed packets very useful for the snoop who hasn't erased his logs yet.
• 40 bit WEP didn't work. 128 bit WEP was broken soon after it was introduced. Apparently more bits doesn't help when there are easier ways to break these systems than with brute force.
• Traffic patterns can easily be deduced from encrypted communications. I'm not a big fan of Solar Designer, but I'll admit that the work he did in analyzing SSH and guessing passwords based on keystroke timing was brilliant. Who's to say that somebody won't find a way to do that for some sort of wireless transmissions?
• This does nothing to prevent DoS attacks. So if you anger your next-door neighbor, he will probably try to flood your network with crap. As a computer geek, I know this would make my life miserable.

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What's it going to take for the FBI to learn their FIRST AND PRIMARY responsability is to safeguard the lives of American citizens...NOT the PROFITS of American corporations.

On FBI website you can find
mission:

The Mission of the FBI is to
uphold the law through the investigation of violations of federal
criminal law; to protect the United States from foreign intelligence
and terrorist activities; to provide leadership and law enforcement
assistance to federal, state, local, and international agencies;
and to perform these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive
to the needs of the public and is faithful to the Constitution
of the United States.

So, the first thing they say is that they have to uphold the law. That's what they did. Piracy (and therefore warez) are against the law.

What you say is basically the same as what so many traffic (parking, speed, etc) offenders say: "Don't you have some bad guys to arrest?"
That argument does not work. If there's one big goal to pursue (wether it's the end of terrorism or arresting all gangsters) should all other goals be set aside? I don't think so.

Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) are encouraged to be
set up by the private sector in cooperation with the Federal
government and modeled on the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention;

A National Infrastructure Assurance Council drawn from private sector
leaders and state/local officials to provide guidance to the policy
formulation of a National Plan;

The Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office will provide support to
the National Coordinator's work with government agencies and the
private sector in developing a national plan. The office will also
help coordinate a national education and awareness program, and
legislative and public affairs.

Try doing a search on fbi.gov's website for Magic Lantern.

Search found 0 documents from 3838 searched

After all the information being covered on it I figured the FBI would have something to say about it. Guess not.

The thing that I have to wonder about in all of this is potentially nasty liability that having an open access point may open you up to.

We have all read the stories of the FBI busting people's doors down and confiscating equipment because they were suspected of a heinous act, be it hacking, kiddie-porn, etc.

Hell, just inviting a few thousand of your closest friends to join your pyramid scheme is usually enough to get your ISP to cut your connection with no warning. Do you really want to risk becoming spam central?

The last thing I want is my door being busted down because of what an anonymous freak with an 802.11 card did from behind MY IP address!

Although I applaud the generosity of the people who provide the so-called "community networks", I would have to think they are just opening themselves up to a world of hurt.

mikeee said:
For about 10 years, the president of the state senate was the kid brother of the major local mafia boss. I kid you not...

William M. Bulger, President, University of Massachusetts
- President Bulger's Biography

pherris

As a poster noted below, the $43 million was given in aid (including food and medicine) through the UN and through non-governmental organizations. The US government did not write a $43 million check paid to the order of "The Taliban, Afghanistan."

I never meant to imply that it wasn't food that we sent. I meant to imply that our reported reason for giving the aid was to fight the war on drugs.

My post was meant to question our motives, and whether or not they are well placed.

The problem is that by rejecting all three of those options, you reject every option. Those three options basically boil down to the three stances we could take: Friendly (send aid), Neutral (ignore), or Hostile (attack).

I didn't reject all three options I said that I didn't know what the correct option is, and that these aren't good. I am not an expert in the area of foreign diplomacy, or foreign aid. I do have a suspision that starting with a "Hostile" response to the recent terrorist attacks is self-defeating and it seems it only takes us down a path of more terrorist attacks, not less.

Yes, but only one of those places hosts a group that murdered 5000 US civilians.

This is categorically untrue. The state dept. lists Sudan as a primary location of the al 'Qaeda network. Cnn notes "Bin Laden is a totally multinational enterprise, said terrorism analyst Magnus Ransdorp. He has tentacles and followers all around the world." The fbi on their most wanted terrorist lists Lebannon and Pakistan as homes to high level terrorists.

While it is naive to think that Afghanistan is not a good place to go looking for terrorists bases, it is the lack of stability, continuious warfare, and natural landscape that make it good places for bases. There are many other places that have these same traits that will become hotbeds for terrorism training when Afghanistan is no longer plausible.

carnivore@fbi.gov

Scary. It hasn't bounced. Must be a valid email address.

There is one case of an Anthrax infection that has been reported so far. One case, and that person has died. That particular case involved a non-GMO (Generically Modificed Organism) version of the Anthrax bacterium. The other cases are a completely different variety of the same bacterium (cutaneous). The one in Florida may very well be a completely natural infection which occured. Yes, there has not been a single case reported in the U.S. of an Anthrax infection in 25 years, and within one week, there are over 7 cases on the books, so you can guarantee that it's intentional, but do not continue to spread the FUD without some knowledge behind you.

The others may not be, but nobody else has been infected with Anthrax to date except this Florida case. The other people you are hearing about have only tested positive for the antibodies which the body produces naturally to fight off the presence of Anthrax.

There's too much FUD in the news right now.

Lastly... there's an interesting quote from al-Queda spokesman Suleiman Abu-Gheith today saying:

"...Muslims in the United States and Great Britain should not fly or live in high buildings..."

but they do not respond the way they should. Instead of a personal e-mail, written by them to you, outlining the reasons they think these bills are a good idea. And showing that many other constituents also think so.

Instead they (unfortunatly) choose to try to change our minds by scare tactics. Such as the recent statements released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which unfortunatly scare many citezens into caring less about freedom and safety.

Freedom is protection from unreasonable power, while safety is protection from unreasonable people.

Those disgusted with this crap can forward the information to the FBI. The more people the better.

Hmm, I'm not assuming anything about your opinions. Just pointing the single most important detail about key escrow: that it's useless as far as wiretapping is concerned.

"Once there is reason to check on someone, the police can check email logs and collect on-going communication. If it is tunneled through legal encryption, they can get the escrowed key and discover any hidden illegal encryption. "

And ... ? What? Then they have to go to Mr Terrorist and ask him to hand in the keys. Mmmm'kay. "Well excuse me officer, I can't give you the keys because I'm fucking dead in the plane crash". Doh!

Key escrow won't do anything against terrorists who have nothing to lose. It will most likely be used against drug dealers ... the war on drugs! Let people harm themselves if they want to, for fuck's sake.

I was browsing the FBI's top 10 most wanted, and what do I see?

A guy who killed thousands of innocents, and businessman :P who apparently did'nt kill anyone, but provided consumers with cocain and marijuana.

Ok cocain is baaaaad, well it's certainly not as cancerogenous (sp?) as your average fat-free grease at your average grocery shop, nor is it as bad for your heart as your average fat-filled junk food at said shop, but it's baaaad.

As for marijuana, well there's no definitive scientific data proving any kind of harmfulness, except maybe the fact that antisocial individuals such as poets, writers or musicians have been abusing it.

Have I lost you yet?

Hmm, I'm not assuming anything about your opinions. Just pointing the single most important detail about key escrow: that it's useless as far as wiretapping is concerned.

"Once there is reason to check on someone, the police can check email logs and collect on-going communication. If it is tunneled through legal encryption, they can get the escrowed key and discover any hidden illegal encryption. "

And ... ? What? Then they have to go to Mr Terrorist and ask him to hand in the keys. Mmmm'kay. "Well excuse me officer, I can't give you the keys because I'm fucking dead in the plane crash". Doh!

Key escrow won't do anything against terrorists who have nothing to lose. It will most likely be used against drug dealers ... the war on drugs! Let people harm themselves if they want to, for fuck's sake.

I was browsing the FBI's top 10 most wanted, and what do I see?

A guy who killed thousands of innocents, and businessman :P who apparently did'nt kill anyone, but provided consumers with cocain and marijuana.

Ok cocain is baaaaad, well it's certainly not as cancerogenous (sp?) as your average fat-free grease at your average grocery shop, nor is it as bad for your heart as your average fat-filled junk food at said shop, but it's baaaad.

As for marijuana, well there's no definitive scientific data proving any kind of harmfulness, except maybe the fact that antisocial individuals such as poets, writers or musicians have been abusing it.

Have I lost you yet?

While the superficial similarities between rewarding spook hackers and punishing civilian hackers seem sufficient to establish gross hypocrisy on the part of the Federal government, it's in fact little different from the time-honored tradition of our military and other militaries which, for aeons, have hired people to commit the same act of killing that would be punished as murder if it had been committed by a civilian acting without state authorization. Big deal.

What's more, the Sixth Amendment's "double jeopardy" clause is still in effect (one of the few clauses with some teeth left in it after decades of judicial erosion). If the Federal government establishes an arrangement whereby criminal acts are committed by individuals acting under government aegis and with the encouragement of state agents, then those acts cannot be subsequently punished (apart from certain situations such as genocide and other circumscribed offenses). One only need remind oneself of Whitey Bulger (on the FBI's most wanted list) who has gotten the FBI into a bit of a morass by acting as an informant for many years and during those years receiving tacit permission from the FBI to commit all manner of offenses including murder. The egg on the FBI's face hangs pendulously, because the FBI is now without legal recourse to punish those acts.

That glib tone is unbecoming, by the way.

Everyone that's blaming encryption for the failure to detect the preperations for these attacks should refer to the first page of the FBI website.

"Individuals who are interested in assisting us should now apply on-line at www.fbijobs.com. Please apply if you are proficient in English and one of the following languages: Arabic, Farsi, and Pashto. Details and specific requirements can be found on www.fbijobs.com."

If we lack sufficient translators to investigate the problem after the fact, how would an easily violated ban on strong encryption products have protected us before the attack?

The full text of the President's speech is here.

Anyone else think this page is out of date?

This isn't a particularly good time to be putting that phrase in your communications...

I remember reading an article on possible terrorist scenarios in Maxim in August of last year. It goes into some detail of possible scenarios. I remember thinking then that it sounded very plausible. But you kind of rely upon the fact that anything you read of this nature has been investigated by those in charge right? What with the events today, is it unreasonable to think it could happen anytime?

17.40 GMT: It would appear the immediate threat from more terrorist threats is over, although the States has gone into a state of panic. Hundreds of buildings across the US, viewed as possible targets, have been evacuated. All airports have been shut down. Borders shut. The flood of calls into New York has jammed switchboards. Companies are setting staff home early.

One person put the World Trade Center up for sale on eBay but the sick joke was removed almost immediately. News Web sites have started popping back up as the initial demand lifts and the blame seems to have fallen on notorious terrorist Usama Bin Laden.

The number of dead and injured remain impossible to predict except that they will probably be in the thousands. Press conferences are due to take place in the next few hours.

16.37PM GMT Thousands of people are feared dead following suicide plane-crash attacks on the World Trade Center, in New York today.

Twenty-five thousand people were thought to be working in the twin towers of World Trade Center in New York at the time of the kamikaze assaults. Both of the 110-storey towers collapsed within two hours of the onslaught.

A third plane has crashed into the Pentagon, Washington, part of which has collapsed, and a fourth plane has crashed south east of Pittsburgh. A fifth plane is reported to be heading towards Washington DC, according to Sky News.

American Airlines has confirmed that it has lost two planes with a total of 156 people on board, one from Boston and one from Washington DC.

Up to eight airplanes are said to have been hijacked,
US air authorities say that three planes are unaccounted for.

Yasser Arafat has condemned the attacks, but current speculation still puts the blame on Palestianian separatists. All Israeli embassies in the US have been evacuated as has the UK stock exchange. Part of the Pentagon has also collapsed. All civilian planes in the US are grounded.

Net News
The incredible spate of terrorist attacks has knocked most the world's news sites off the Internet as people tried to find out the latest news.

CNN has been offline ever since the news that a second plane had crashed into the World trade Center. The BBC has fared little better, which the site now inaccessible. MSNBC was available for a short while but seems to have disappeared as well following the posting of a video of the second plane crashing.

[16.50PM GMT: Most news sites have now put up a simple front page with a list of stories in order to bring themselves back online]

The news that a bomb has gone off just outside the Pentagon and a third explosion near the World Trade Center have only added to the problems. All UK newspaper sites are struggling with demand, working at an incredibly slow rate. Only The Guardian and the FT are offering accessible information as we write.

The World Trade Centre Association Web site has also vanished, and access to any New York Webcams is impossible. Tony Blair has cancelled his speech at the TUC to fly back to London.

The only news sites that seem to have weathered the demand so far are the Press Association's Ananova site and Sky TV's Sky.com, although that too is having trouble now. Ananova reckons eight planes in total have been hijacked. All planes in US airspace have been ordered to land as soon as possible.

It seems that the Internet has failed in its first truly hard test as a news disseminator. The best coverage is coming from the usual TV outlets.

More as things go on.

(What the fuck is a "postercomment compression filter"?!?!)

Why was the lameness filter encountered? You stupid shitdicks.

Please remember, yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Troll community when last month the FBI confirmed that Trolls account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all netizens. Coming on top of of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Trolls have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Trolls are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent ZDNet comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be Bob Cringely to predict a Trolls future. The hand writing is on the wall: Trolls face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Trolls because Trolls are dying. Things are looking very bad for Trolls. As many of us are already aware, Trolls continue to lose market share. Green ink flows like a river of blood. Anonymous Trolls are the most endangered of them all.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Troll leader AC states that there are 7000 Anonymous Trolls. How many Trolls with names are there? Let's see. The number of Anonymous versus Named posts on /. is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Trolls with names. Fake Troll posts on /. are about half of the volume of Named Troll posts. Therefore there are about 700 Trolls with fake names. A recent article put /. Editorial Trolls at about 80 percent of the Troll market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Editorial Trolls. This is consistent with the number of Editorial Troll /. posts.

Due to the troubles of Trolling, abysmal sales and so on, CompuServ went out of business and was taken over by AOL who sells another troubled product to goatsex Trolls. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to another Troll-Lover.

All major surveys show that Trolling has steadily declined in market share. Trolling is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Trolling is to survive at all it will be among Anonymous hobbyist dabblers. Trolling continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Trolls are dead.

The movie
The Story with pictures
The FBI investigation (337 pages in 4 PDF files)

I contacted the local FBI office here in Tampa and they said that according to the current computer crimes law it would be alright to alter the source code of the Code Red virus and make it able to fix servers that are still open. The agent I spoke with also said I should consult a CyberLaw Attorney for more information but to her knowledge it would be legal and probably smiled upon.

... that the Slashdot editors don't read Slashdot.

This has been discussed on the other three Slashdot stories about Code Red.

Each time, none of the comments have risen above +1. Some have even been modded down to...

... -1, redundant.

Nevertheless, this is a good idea. You have to remember that not all NT administrators are anything more than employees of a small company trying to see what this "Internet and web server" thing is all about. They'd patch, but they just don't know how. (And yes, I know. If they don't know how to administer it, they shouldn't be trying to.)

I believe that the United States FBI still counts this as an unauthorized intrusion, so watch out if you do try to inject something like this into the Internet...

"If the FBI breaks the law while doing their job then they goto jail as well." Last I checked, the Constitution of the United States was still the highest law in the land. Despite the morons who try to undermine it at every pass (ie Demokrats and Republicans), the Constitution is still technically the law that guides all others. In fact, I'd be pretty surprized if FBI agents don't have to take an oath to uphold the Constitution when they take office. Since the DMCA is flagrantly unconstitutional, I'd say that they're not only breaking the law by upholding it, but they're breaking the highest law in the land. Oops.

This makes it a little better even. From the FBI Mission Statement:
In 1998, Director Freeh articulated five core values that guide employees in support of the FBI's mission; rigorous obedience to the Constitution; respect for the dignity of all those we protect; compassion; fairness; and uncompromising personal and institutional integrity.

Rigorous obedience to the Constitution...hmmmmm. Fairness...hmmmmm. Uncompromising personal and institutional integrity? Well, I tend to agree with those five core values. Too bad the FBI apparently doesn't.

Maybe a certain Federal Bureau should adopt this as a security policy. Although it might be hard to catch international terrorists when you have a 50kg lump of concrete hanging out of your holster.

We need one in Washington, DC!
The FBI's ugly headquarters building (often shown on the X-files) is located on Pennsylvania Ave., nine blocks from the Capitol building, and would make an excellent, very hi-visibility location! (Perhaps even the very best?)
Wasn't it the FBI that decided to act upon Adobe's complaint?
While I check on legalities (such as if permits are necessary), is anyone interested in attending there?

Masks, or people making themselves up to look like people on the wanted list... that's the civil disobedience I'd like to see. Every geek in Tampa should hit the FBI's 10 most wanted list and see if there's anyone they look like.

Jeebus, this is depressing. And Independence Day just around the corner.