The Freedom of Information Act isn’t just for journalists or activist groups — citizens (with and without blogs) can also petition the federal government to turn over documents. While it’s rather simple to file a request, it’s a bit more complicated to file one that actually gets you information. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which hired […]
October 2006
* Airborne Anti-Missile Laser Actually a “Light Saber“ * From Barbary War II to Iraq War in 90 sec Flash * Gov puts RFID in IDs, Despite Damning Report (shameless self-promotion) * Letter From Iraq Goes Viral * U.S.-provided Weapons Untraceable in Iraq * Blair Outsourcing Iraq War? * Ahmadinejad to Sanctions: Bring It On […]
Ryan Singel has broken some of the biggest privacy and security stories of the last few years — like AT&T’s cheek-to-cheek cooperation with the NSA’s domestic spying, and Jet Blue’s fishy use of customer records, to test a federal passenger-screening database. These days, he heads up Wired News’ horribly-named, must-read security blog, 27B Stroke 6. […]
For the last couple of weeks, Defense Tech has been looking into the increasingly hostile atmosphere that soldier– journalists — milbloggers — have been facing. Now, a bunch of bigger outlets have picked up on the story — and advanced it several steps. Stars & Stripes: The [Army’s] August order [about blogs] specifically states that […]
Despite what you might have heard from other media, the Iraqi Army does not suck. In fact, by regional standards, it’s a fine little army: well-armed, well-led and capable of defeating terrorists and insurgents in a stand-up fight. It wasn’t always that way, but the coalition’s clean-sheet approach and years of hard work by training […]
