Tuesday, 2 June 2015

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TSA Agents’ success nabbing weapons, explosives smugglers only 5%, report says

Posted: 01 Jun 2015 05:41 PM PDT

Federal agents tasked with keeping US airports safe failed to stop prohibited items from passing through security 95 percent of the time, an internal investigation has revealed.
Officials with the US Department of Homeland Security recently attempted to smuggle contraband through airport checkpoints and succeeded nearly every single time, ABC News reported on Monday this week.
According to a recent DHS General’s report obtained by the network, Transportation Security Administration agents failed 67 out of 70 tests conducted to gauge whether or not airport screeners are up to snuff.
Acting undercover, DHS agents succeeded in bringing explosives and banned weapons through airport checkpoints more often than nine-out-of-ten times, the network reported.

In one occurrence, according to ABC, an undercover agent was stopped after triggering a magnetometer, but still was able to sneak through the TSA checkpoint with a supposed explosive device taped to his back.
The ABC News report lacks specifics concerning when or where the testing occurred, but said that it had recently concluded and subsequently caused DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson to demand the agency adopt new, unspecified procedures.
“Upon learning the initial findings of the Office of Inspector General’s report, Secretary Johnson immediately directed TSA to implement a series of actions, several of which are now in place, to address the issues raised in the report,” the DHS said in a statement to ABC News.
The TSA made a record number of weapon confiscations during the last calendar year, seizing more than 2,000 guns, as well as flash and smoke grenades, knives, drugs and stun guns, according to the agency’s own admissions.
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Facebook letting users opt-in to receive encrypted emails

Posted: 01 Jun 2015 05:37 PM PDT

Users of the world’s largest social networking site can start receiving updates, notifications and other account information in the form of encrypted emails, Facebook announced.
On Monday, Facebook deployed a new feature that enables its one-billion-plus account holders to post their PGP public keys on their personal profiles.
Invented in the 1980s, PGP—short for Pretty Good Privacy—is a widely used protocol that enables emails to be sent across the internet in an encrypted format that renders the messages illegible to unintended eyes.
Facebook has not implemented any new features to encrypt messages sent between users, but enabling account holders to share their public keys makes it possible for sensitive emails concerning their profiles to be protected as never before.
“It’s very important to us that the people who use Facebook feel safe and can trust that their connection to Facebook is secure,” the website said on Monday when announcing the new feature.
Once a public key is shared, the Facebook user who posted it can check a box that will render all further emails sent from the social network site readable only if the recipient has the corresponding private key. So alerts from Facebook containing updates on the activities of acquaintances, new friend requests or pending wall posts can be encrypted, diminishing the likelihood that an eavesdropper can access your social networking info by rifling through a hacked inbox.
Additionally, any Facebook user who can view the public key of another individual can then import that information into an applicable email client and use that key to externally send their acquaintance a message that’s end-to-end encrypted.
“Security tools like PGP encryption are most effective when they are used widely,” Geoffrey King, the internet advisory coordinator for the Center to Protect Journalists, said in a statement. “Facebook has taken an important step to help protect users’ private communications by default, and make the risky environment in which journalists work a little bit safer.”
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Passenger ship with over 450 people sinks in Chinese river

Posted: 01 Jun 2015 05:02 PM PDT

A ship carrying more than 400 people and some 50 crew members from the eastern Chinese Jiangsu province to the southwestern city of Chongqing sank in the Yangtze River, local authorities have said. No more than 20 people are known to have been rescued.
The vessel sank Monday night in the Jianli County, Hubei Province, according to the Yangtze River Navigation Administration cited by Xinhua. The ship, named Dongfangzhixing (Eastern Star), was heading to Chongqing from the city of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province.
The boat was carrying 405 passengers, five travel agency workers and 47 crew members at the time of the accident, the agency reported.
Rescue operations began overnight, but no details have emerged on the number of casualties. CCTV reported that up to 20 people are known to have been rescued; while Xinhua’s report indicates only seven have been saved.
According to Dongfangzhixing’s captain and chief engineer, who were among the rescued, the ship abruptly sank after being hit by a cyclone.
Strong wind and heavy rain are still hampering the rescue work.
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Mongols in peril as feds target biker club’s logo

Posted: 31 May 2015 05:05 PM PDT

US authorities are using trademark law to go after a California biker club, claiming the ‘Mongols’ use their logo to threaten and intimidate. The bikers say their colors aren’t a corporate trademark, but a club symbol protected by free speech laws.
The “Mongols” started in California as a group of primarily Hispanic bikers, but has since grown to more than sixty chapters around the world, including branches in Sweden and Germany, federal prosecutors say. The government is going after the group on racketeering charges.
A six-state federal sting in 2008, called “Operation Black Rain,” resulted in 80 Mongols members pleading guilty to various federal criminal charges. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the government is expected to argue the club remains “steeped in violence and criminal activity” and displaying Mongols insignia amounts to making a threat.
Joseph Yanny, the attorney representing the Mongols, is optimistic about the chances of a fair hearing, after Judge Otis Wright II excused himself from the case last week.
“I think this is going to be a vast improvement for us,” Yanny told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. “I could be wrong, but I think we’ll get a fair trial this way.”
The group’s attorneys requested Judge Wright withdraw because he was the one to suggest going after the group’s trademarks in the first place. Yanny said the members involved in the 2008 indictment were no longer members of the club, and that the government was seeking to punish more than 700 members of the organization based on the actions of a few.
“Law enforcement is going out there trying to demonize and vilify us,” said David “Lil Dave” Santillan, the Mongols’ international president. “We are a motorcycle club. We just want to ride and be free.”
The case has attracted national attention, as bikers across the US are concerned it might set a precedent and allow the government to go after them next.
“They are worried that if they can do this to the Mongols, they can do it to anybody,” Donald Charles Davis, a biker expert who blogs at Aging Rebel, told the Wall Street Journal. “The idea seems to be that you can ban motorcycle clubs by stripping them of their insignia.”
“If anyone from another motorcycle club commits an illegal act, then the precedent is there,” added William Dulaney, a professor at Air University in Alabama, described as an expert on biker culture. “That organization’s colors could conceivably be confiscated.”
The WSJ also quoted a statement by the US attorney in Los Angeles, who announced the original indictment against several Mongols members in 2008, saying forfeiture would allow police officers to stop any Mongols member and “literally take the jacket right off his back.”
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