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September 26th, 2006

unixronin: A stone griffon (Weltschmerz)
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 07:45 am

Colonel Jeff Cooper died yesterday at his home, in the company of his wife Janelle and daughter Lindy.  He was 86 years old.

He will be missed, as will his insightful (and often acerbic) commentaries, but the lessons he taught will live on.

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unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Default)
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 12:19 pm

A U.S. House of Representatives panel said Monday that it has asked the chief executives of six major telecommunications companies to testify in its probe of the legally questionable practice of "pretexting," which involves tricking a business into disclosing information by posing as someone else.

I love that euphemism.  "Legally questionable."  In pretty much any other "civilized" nation, or if it involved pretty much any other kind of records, there'd be a much shorter name for it:  FRAUD.  Where does the whacked-out idea come from that it's a crime to masquerade as somebody else to get their money or their medical records, say, but not their phone records?

A few other news bits for this morning: