Posted on June 21st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
The device was stolen after a state intern took the device home as part of a policy that called for one backup device to be kept offsite.
A computer back-up device that was stolen last week from an Ohio state government intern’s car contains identifying information on more than 60,000 state employees and 225,000 taxpayers [...]
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Posted on April 11th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
THEY are calling them the blog cops — two internet bigwigs who want to clean out the potty-mouths of 70 million bloggers and civilise the virtual Wild West of online publishing. Boy, have they picked a fight.
Concerned by recent high-profile cases of online bullying and worried about a general degeneration of [...]
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Posted on December 20th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
The Situation Room at the White House isn’t one room at all but a sprawling 5,000-square-foot complex. And it’s nothing like the state-of-the-art Counter-Terrorist Unit on TV’s “24.”
When a remodeling project is completed — after eight months and a classified number of taxpayer dollars — White House officials expect their ‘Sit Room’ to function at [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
The head of the research division of Military Intelligence, Brigadier General Yossi Baidatz, said Sunday that Syrian President Bashar Assad is preparing for a war with Israel.
He said that Assad has ordered increased production of long-range missiles and instructed the Syrian army to position its anti-tank missiles closer to the Syrian border with Israel, on [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
Investigators looking into Hollywood Commissioner Keith Wasserstrom’s role in helping a company win an $18 million sludge-handling contract peeked into his computer in 2005 and saw nothing.
A computer crash wiped everything out, Wasserstrom’s attorney explained this week. According to reports released this week, the Broward State Attorney’s Office ordered a search of Wasserstrom’s [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
According to a report by World News Australia and Tagesspiegel newspaper, Israeli F16 fighter jets allegedly fired upon a German navy vessel patrolling the coast of Lebanon on a UN peace keeping mission. It was reported that the Israeli F16’s fired upon the vessel and launched anti-missile defense flares.
A spokesman for the command of the [...]
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Posted on October 19th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
During an interview with ABC news correspondent George Stephanopoulos, President Bush conveyed a strong message to the North Korean government stating that if they attempt to sell nuclear weapons or technology to other nations they will be held accountable. President Bush continued to say that if needed the U.S. will board ships or do [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
Following intensive negotiations triggered earlier this month when the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) claimed to have conducted a nuclear test, the United Nations Security Council today imposed sanctions against the country as well as individuals supporting its military programme and demanded that Pyongyang cease its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.
By a unanimously [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
Following what appears to be the first successful test of a nuclear weapon by North Korea one has to pose the question, “Will North Korea sell nuclear weapons and secrets to Iran?” Given the series of events that have taken place leading up to North Koreas nuclear weapon test why should [...]
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