After writing ingulf.livejournal.com/1354.html, which describes a hardware based solution to phishing, it occurred  to me that there is something much easier that could be done now. Every website which has a login system could train its users to notice phish attempts by occasionally doing a phish drill: present the wrong domain in the login screen ( Read more... )

Cory Doctorow has just had the misfortune  to illustrate how easy it is to get phished these days:

www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2010/05/cory-doctorow-persistence-pays-parasites/
  Here is what I think would be needed to end, or at least severely reduce, the problem. Bottom line: it's technically quite doable, but very difficult to get all the ( Read more... )

Note: the following was manually extracted from the PDF www.courthousenews.com/2008/08/26/GalvestonCops.pdf
As such, it may contain transcription errors.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
GALVESTON DIVISION
EMILY MILBURN, INDIVIDUALLY
AND AS NEXT FRIEND OF DYMOND LARAE MILBURN,
PLAINTIFF

V.         
CIVIL ACTION NO. ( Read more... )

The public are growing frustrated with the lack of democracy in Europe. The pressure for a referendum is strong evidence of this, but a referendum can't solve the crisis, only bring it to a head.

Europe needs reform, but the path to reform is difficult. Most avenues require the agreement of all the EU countries. But any EU-wide reform may be so ( Read more... )