Thankfully, a swift retraction, after public outcry: Shooters Heard: Interior Will Not Ban Target Practice. (A hat tip to Lee M. for the link.)
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Jan S. recommended some interesting commentary on Smart Meters.
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And speaking of privacy risks, reader F.S. mentioned that all Android phones have a root kit called Carrier iQ that allows all functions to be logged without user knowledge. It can be used as a key logger, location log, app use log, etc… He sent links to a short summary analysis and a full article that describes this huge COMSEC vulnerability.
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Jim O’Neill asks: Time to Break Apart the United States?
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The Talkeetna Patriot was the first of several readers to send this: Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack, expert says. (No doubt the first nor the last such incident. I’ve warned you about SCADA cyber attacks…)