Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has released extracts from secret messages sent by US embassies which give an insight into current global concerns — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The United States has rejected talks with WikiLeaks over its planned release of confidential US documents, saying the whistleblower website is holding them in violation of US law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The coalition appears to have shelved plans to introduce new protections for public sector workers who blow the whistle on dangerous, corrupt or incompetent practices, the Guardian has learned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Germany is to suspend conscription in July 2011 and switch to a volunteer military service, defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A major policy shift on the length of time terror suspects can be held without charge was signalled by Labour today, after the shadow home secretary said he could support cutting the limit to 14 days.
Ed Balls said that the party was ready to abandon backing for the current 28-day limit, which was introduced by the Labour government in 2006, and added that previous plans to raise this to 42 days had been a step too far
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at Iran’s nuclear program have determined that it was precisely calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control.
Their conclusion, while not definitive, begins to clear some of the fog around the Stuxnet worm, a malicious program detected earlier this year on computers, primarily in Iran but also India, Indonesia and other countries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US senator has vowed to fight attempts to pass a controversial copyright protection bill that would allow the US government to shut down websites suspected of hosting infringing materials.
Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said late Thursday that he would seek to block the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA, from passing through the full Senate, unless the legislation is changed. Earlier Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 19-0 to approve the bill and send it to the full Senate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A friend of mine sent me this about his TSA experience. He, unlike most of us, was coming back into the country from Afghanistan on a military charter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A well-known and respected computer security researcher was detained for several hours Wednesday night by border agents who searched his laptop and cell phones before returning them to him.
The researcher, who goes by the hacker handle Moxie Marlinspike, was met by two US Customs and Border Protection agents at the door of his plane when he arrived at JFK airport on a Jet Blue flight from the Dominican Republic. The agents escorted him to a detention room where they held him for four and a half hours, he says. During that time, a forensic investigator arrived and seized Marlinspike’s laptop and two cell phones, and asked for his passwords to access his devices. Marlinspike refused, and the devices were later returned to him — via redwolf.newsvine.com
South Korea has installed digital bunkers
to prevent a repeat of the massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crippled parts of the country last year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Federal Government has backed away from supporting a test case on equal pay for women, arguing it would threaten the budget — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia will move on Wednesday to restrict internet tobacco advertising, preventing retailers from promoting cheap or tax free cigarettes, as part of a campaign to cut smoking rates by 10 percent by 2018 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Legislation to introduce mandatory ISP filtering has now been deferred to the second half of 2013, according to strategy papers issued by the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Watching the debate over the merits of gay marriage, I feel like I am watching a scene from the movie The Castle
where the totally underprepared solicitor for the plaintiff gives as his sole argument: It’s the vibe
.
That pretty much sums up the quality of the arguments being put forward by those opposing marriage equality. While supporters of gay marriage have abundant and cogent arguments about why it is right and fair, its opponents have nothing more to offer than I don’t like it
or that’s what the Marriage Act says
. They put forward no justification because there is no justification — via redwolf.newsvine.com
NSW’s State Records Authority is unable to archive digital records supplied by government departments and agencies due to a lack of infrastructure
, in breach of laws requiring access to public records — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Royal pardon for Harry Breaker
Morant has been refused in a modern-day appeal that is as mysterious as the century-old case that saw the Australian soldier executed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A nuclear cooperation agreement which will see Australia sell uranium to Russia has been ratified by the countries’ two leaders at the G20 summit in South Korea — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Remember the old saying about being innocent until proven guilty
? Well, the latest version of New Zealand’s Copyright Amendment Bill has a farcical reversal of this, which has created rightful outrage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The NSW Greens have called for a full inquiry into NSW laws that allow religious schools to discriminate against students and teachers on the basis of sexual orientation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Opinions are divided over whether the High Court’s ruling on South Australia’s anti-bikie laws will have implications for other states with similar legislation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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