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Defense Sec. Hagel: U.S. rethinking decision not to arm Syrian rebels - Middle East - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/defense-sec-hagel-u-s-rethinking-decision-not-to-arm-syrian-rebels-1.518934

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday the Obama administration is rethinking its opposition to arming Syrian rebels but has not made a final decision.

Asked during a news conference whether the Obama administration was rethinking arming the rebels, Hagel said, “Yes.” Asked why, he said, “You look at and rethink all options. It doesn’t mean you do or you will.”

Hagel was speaking at a Pentagon news conference with British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond, who said any action should be based on “very high quality evidence” that would be admissible in a court of law.

State forces and militias loyal to President Bashar al-Assad committed a “massacre” when they stormed Syria’s coastal village of Baida on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, killing at least 50 people including women and children.

The Observatory said the final toll was expected to exceed 100 dead. Many of those killed appeared to be executed by gunfire or knives, it said, and other bodies were found burned.

Backdoors Found in Barracuda Networks Gear
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/01/backdoors-found-in-barracuda-networks-gear

A variety of the latest firewall, spam filter and VPN appliances sold by Campbell, Calif. based Barracuda Networks Inc. contain undocumented backdoor accounts, the company disclosed today. Worse still, while the backdoor accounts are apparently set up so that they would only be accessible from Internet addresses assigned to Barracuda, they are in fact accessible to potentially hundreds of other companies and network owners.

#surveillance

A.G. Schneiderman Sues JPMorgan For Fraudulent Residential Mortgage-backed Securities Issued By Bear Stearns | Eric T. Schneiderman
http://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-sues-jpmorgan-fraudulent-residential-mortgage-backed-securiti

“This lawsuit will bring accountability for the misconduct that led to the crash of the housing market and the collapse of the American economy,” said Attorney General Schneiderman. “Our lawsuit demonstrates that there is one set of rules for all – no matter how big or powerful the institution may be – and that those rules will be enforced vigorously. We believe that this is a workable template for future actions against issuers of residential mortgage-backed securities that defrauded investors and cost millions of Americans their homes. We need real accountability for the illegal and deceptive conduct in the creation of the housing bubble in order to bring justice for New York’s homeowners and investors.”

#banksters

Citizen Philosophy Classes - Politics - Utne Reader
http://www.utne.com/politics/philosophy-classes-zm0z12sozlin.aspx
Source : http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.1/carlos_fraenkel_brazil_teaching_philosophy.php

they study philosophy two hours each week because of a 2008 law that mandates philosophy instruction in all Brazilian high schools. Nine million teenagers now take philosophy classes for three years.

Among the greatest skeptics of the 2008 law is José Arthur Giannotti, one of Brazil’s most respected academic philosophers. “Teaching philosophy to students who can hardly read and write,” Giannotti said in 2008, “is sad foolishness.”

To be sure, conditions are dire in public schools. More than 12 million poor families get tiny financial incentives to keep their children in school. Brazil still has 15 million illiterate people and an additional 30 million “functionally” illiterate who can decipher a text, but not understand it, much less write something coherent.

When I mentioned Giannotti’s statement to students they were outraged. They thought he described a vicious circle: if you can’t establish a just society democratically without the citizens knowing what justice is, and if you can’t know what justice is without philosophy, it would be impossible to achieve justice in an unjust society like Brazil.

#enseignement #philosophie #religion #Brésil via @opironet

Why Apple Bought AuthenTec: It Needed NFC Fingerprint Sensors, Quickly

If you are interested in the technology that could be embedded in Apple’s new iPhone (or the rumored 7.85-inch iPad) then you should definitely read on.

About the Author
Matt is based near London and is the Mobile Editor for The Next Web. You can follow him on Twitter, subscribe to his updates on Facebook and catch up with him on Google+. You can reach Matt via email at matt@thenextweb.com.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/08/16/the-real-reason-apple-acquired-authentec-because-needed-new-technology-q

Is yours a “blood camera”? Report details electronics companies’ progress on conflict minerals - Imaging Resource
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2012/08/17/is-yours-a-blood-camera-conflict-minerals-report-details-companies

The answer, in part, is for companies using these metals to trace their sources, allow outside auditors to verify the information, and provide this information to the buying public so that they can avoid buying conflict electronics. That is exactly what’s happening at some of the world’s leading electronics manufacturers and a report just released by the Enough Project casts a critical eye over these efforts.

So what happens if Mitt Romney committed a felony? | Death and Taxes
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/185821/so-what-happens-if-mitt-romney-committed-a-felony

What happens if Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, has committed a white-collar felony?
Nothing.
If there’s one lesson we can take away from Obama’s term it’s that America doesn’t currently prosecute financial crimes.

Is #France about to End Exporting #Surveillance Technology? | Fabrice Epelboin
http://reflets.info/is-france-about-to-end-exporting-surveillance-technology

During a public radio show held in Montpellier (France) on july 20th and hosted by public radio FranceCulture and Le Monde, France’s best known and weightiest newspaper, French State Sec. for Digital Economy Fleur Pellerin announced she was opposed to suveillance technology exports to oppressive regimes. This shocking announcement, coming from a country known to be among the world’s leaders in mass surveillance technologies, should come as a relief to many living in oppresive regimes. Dictatorships like Syria, Barheim, Morocco, Gabon, Cambodgia, or former oppresive regimes like Libya and Tunisia are all equiped with french mass surveillance technologies. It should also come as a relief for those fighting for privacy rights in France. In october 2011, before France’s presidential elections, Reflets.info and Owni.fr revealed that mass surveillance technologies where spying on french citizens. A scandal similar to the American NSA domestic spying gear. In the United States, surveillance technology firms are currently under heavy fire from the administration. President Obama recently announced an executive order allowing U.S. officials to impose sanctions on foreign nationals found to have used new technologies to help carry out grave human rights abuses. In France, no need for sanctions, since the french government is a (...)

#A_la_Une

Fulcrum Property‘s Mark Friedman and Howard Dickstein Fraud Re River Property on Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation / Cache Creek Casino (Note: Notice Despicable Character of Mark Friedman; Partial Reason California Democratic Party Placed on State Bar of California Board of Governors Inferior Quality Such as Keker & Van Nest’s Jon Streeter, Howard Dickstein’s Wife Jannine English, Dennis Mangers,Gwen Moore of Shrimpscam, United States Department of Justice’s Angela Davis

Please see complete story @:

http://lesliebrodie.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/fulcrum-s-mark-friedman-and-howard-dickstein-fraud-re-river-

Voici une sélection d’articles sur l’attaque (réussie, au moins partiellement) contre #Verisign, opérateur de « .com », d’une partie des serveurs racine du #DNS, et, à l’époque, Autorité de Certification (vendue à Symantec depuis). L’attaque a eu lieu en 2010 mais vient juste d’être publiée, par le biais d’une déclaration obligatoire à la #SEC (le régulateur de la Bourse aux États-Unis).

Peu de détails concrets, donc on peut spéculer tout à loisir.

La dépêche Reuters (pas trop mal, pas d’erreurs) http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Key-Internet-operator-rb-2857339070.html

Un bon résumé, sous forme d’une FAQ http://www.cio.com/article/699393/FAQ_About_the_VeriSign_Data_Breaches

Une discussion de pourquoi cela a pris si longtemps http://techland.time.com/2012/02/03/why-are-we-only-finding-out-about-the-verisign-security-breach-now

Le document originel soumis à la SEC (cherchez « the Company faced several successful attacks ») https://investor.verisign.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-11-285850&CIK=1014473

#sécurité

French government prepares to deploy security forces to break airport strike
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/fren-d22.shtml

Yesterday, President Nicolas Sarkozy held a cabinet meeting to discuss the necessary measures to end the strike. According to government spokeswoman Valérie Pécresse, “the head of State told ministers to be extremely attentive to the development of this situation, and to take all the necessary and opportune measures given its evolution.” She did not give specifics, but it is widely suspected the state will use police to smash the strikes. Yesterday, Sarkozy’s special advisor Henri Guaino warned that, “starting today, and in particular tonight, it will no longer be possible for the State not to act in accordance with its responsibilities” in the airports. He added, “I do not see why it would be shocking to replace private security agents for a limited time with agents of the public forces.”

A Sign Occupy Wall Street Is Having Political Impact | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/a-sign-occupy-wall-street-is-having-a-political-impact-20111219
#ows

Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? | Rolling Stone Politics
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-covering-up-wall-street-crimes-20110817

Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime channel specials where the murderer is unveiled after police stumble upon past intrigues in some old file – “Hey, chief, didja know this guy had two wives die falling down the stairs?” No more burglary sprees cracked when some sharp cop sees the same name pop up in one too many witness statements. This is a different world, one far friendlier to lawbreakers, where even the suspicion of wrongdoing gets wiped from the record.

#capitalisme #impunité

#Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractor, Releases 400 MB Internal Documents
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/189525/20110729/anonymous-lulzsec-hacers-hacktivist-organization-fbi-operation-anti-sec-gov

Hacking group Anonymous under operation ’Anti-Sec’ on Friday said that they broke into the networks of #U.S. government contractor Mantech International Corp and stole internal documents

High Frequency Trading, la nouvelle bombe du secteur financier | kitetoa
http://reflets.info/high-frequency-trading-la-nouvelle-bombe-du-secteur-financier

Aloha. Peut-être avez-vous suivi hier soir la Nuit Sujet de Nova et Owni sur le Hack. Si vous voulez aller plus loin sur le High Frequency Trading, voici quelques développements sur le sujet au travers d’une série d’articles publiés sur Kitetoa.com et sur Aporismes.com A peine sortis de la crise des subprimes, la nouvelle bombe du secteur financier arrivait à maturité. Depuis quelques années, les opérateurs ont mis en place des algorithmes sophistiqués qui sont programmés pour profiter d’écarts de cours (pour faire simple). C’est le High Frequency Trading. Par exemple, une même valeur cotée à New York et à Paris peuvent avoir un cours différent l’espace de quelques secondes. Ces algorithmes, qui ne nécessitent pas d’action humaine vont repérer cet écart, acheter là où le titre est bas et revendre dans la microseconde suivante là où le cours est plus élevé. A la fin de la journée, ce sont des millions de micro-bénéfices qui viennent remplir les caisses des banques. Petit souc

Google braces to pay at least $500M in ad probe - Cañon City Daily Record Newspaper
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_GOOGLE_ADVERTISING_INVESTIGATION?SITE=COCAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=

The SEC documents filed Tuesday provided few details about the nature of the Justice Department’s inquiry except that it involves how Google’s automated system has been treating some unnamed advertisers.

[...]

Dealing with the Justice Department’s ad investigation apparently won’t be cheap. In its SEC filing, Google said its management decided earlier this month to set aside $500 million to cover a possible settlement.

#google #publicité

The Real Housewives of Wall Street (Rolling Stone)
►http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout

Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs?

The Real Housewives of Wall Street | Rolling Stone Politics
►http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. The official budget is public record and hotly debated: Money comes in as taxes and goes out as jet fighters, DEA agents, wheat subsidies and Medicare, plus pensions and bennies for that great untamed socialist menace called a unionized public-sector workforce that Republicans are always complaining about. According to popular legend, we’re broke and in so much debt that 40 years from now our granddaughters will still be hooking on weekends to pay the medical bills of this year’s retirees from the IRS, the SEC and the Department of Energy.

Deep frustrations with Obama - The #Palestine_Papers - Al Jazeera English
http://english.aljazeera.net/palestinepapers/2011/01/2011124113952425385.html

Mitchell: Again I tell you that President Obama does not accept prior decisions by Bush. Don’t use this because it can hurt you. Countries are bound by agreements – not discussions or statements.

Erekat: But this was an agreement with Sec. Rice.

[...]

[US state department legal adviser Jonathan] Schwartz: It is not legally binding – not an agreement.

Erekat: For God’s sake, she said to put it on the record. It was the basis for the maps.