It’s all-politics, all the time here at cyberpir8.net… I was going through my daily allotment of Slashdot headlines and one had a link to this article: www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/09/eavesdropping/. An opinion columnist at Salon.com, Glenn Greenwald, reports on two NSA

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7624809.stm Heh, well Sarah Palin’s stupidity is somewhat mitigated by the fact that her password was probably not actually “popcorn”.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7623771.stm John McCain’s running mate “doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials”, Mr Hagel told the Omaha World-Herald. Mr Hagel was a prominent supporter of Mr McCain during his 2000 bid for the US presidency… Mr Hagel also criticised the McCain campaign for its suggestion that the proximity of Alaska to Russia gave Mrs Palin foreign [...]

Just a note to anybody who reads this stupid blog. www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/09/17-0 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies today on behalf of AT&T customers to stop the illegal, unconstitutional, and ongoing dragnet surveillance of their communications and communications records. The five individual plaintiffs are [...]

arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080917-palin-e-mail-hack-makes-case-for-sticking-with-gov-e-mail.html I have no problem with government officials using Internet-based email for personal reasons.