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Intel worker charged with terrorism offences
News The affidavit, prepared by an Oregon state trooper, attempts to tie Maher "Mike" Mofeid Hawash, 38, to a group of six Portland, Oregon, residents arrested on terrorism charges last year. The Justice Department has charged Intel engineer Mike Hawash...
[April 29, 2003, 15:13]
This is how I came to that conclusion
Talkback I am Solo, since the US deserves it and terrorism is not a mistake I will continue to disrupt the US at the highest levels. US foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these days. Which leads me to there is a law in the US called...
[November 15, 2009, 0:25]
Report argues case for EU-US data sharing
News The report said the EU would fail to beat terrorism unless it developed a full partnership with Washington, a process currently pushing ahead in fits and starts. The 27 members of the EU should also pool intelligence on terrorism, develop joint...
[August 7, 2008, 16:18]
Police ask for more Internet powers
News In a press statement, Ken Jones, chairman of the ACPO Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee, said: "[The] evolving nature of the current threat from international terrorism demands that those charged with countering the threat have the tools they...
[July 26, 2005, 8:55]
Limiting encryption may open doors to criminals
News Critics include not only civil libertarians and a self-interested software industry, but those concerned with preventing terrorism as well. Gregg is discussing the proposal with other senators and is waiting to see Attorney General John Ashcroft's...
[September 27, 2001, 10:26]
Openness is our best defence
Leader The Internet videos distributed by the supporters of terrorism are deftly made with high production values and chilling content — fanaticism for the MTV generation. We are now becoming used to the idea that phone records, hard disks and Internet...
[July 25, 2005, 15:20]
Anarchy in the USA
News My amendment gives law enforcement another tool in the war against terrorism, to combat the flow of information that is used to teach terrorists and other criminals how to build bombs. But when I found out the terrorism enhancement (from the USA...
[August 14, 2003, 14:35]
Throwing money at technology
News As the threat of terrorism increasingly becomes a fact of life, domestic security can be viewed legitimately as a cost of doing business, along with such factors as worker safety and product liability.
[October 19, 2004, 16:15]
NASA hacker to speak at security show
News His defence argued that he should not be extradited as he could be tried under America's tough anti-terrorism laws. He is charged with gaining unauthorised access to 97 US government computers, including machines belonging to NASA and the US...
[April 13, 2006, 18:05]
Lawyers: Hackers sentenced too harshly
News Yet, with no reported incident of cyberterrorism to date and other statutes that would punish any act of terrorism already on the books, Granick and the paper's signatories argue that harsher sentences for cyberterrorism are unwarranted.
[February 21, 2003, 10:24]
Phishing line used to sell ID cards
News With much criticism of the plans anticipated, the government has been stressing the use of the scheme to prevent identity theft rather than using the terrorism argument, which was deployed during the last attempt to introduce the bill.
[May 27, 2005, 15:15]
'Wardriver' first to be convicted under US anti-spam law
News Some experts have even offered dire warnings that open Wi-Fi hot spots could abet terrorism. The driver was charged with possession, distribution and creation of child pornography, as well as theft of telecommunications -- a first in Canada...
[October 1, 2004, 9:35]
Police chief criticises ID cards scheme
News The idea the card can be used to fight terrorism is completely fatuous. If someone is charged [with a crime], we can keep it, but we can't keep it without a charge. He added that holding suspected criminals' fingerprints indefinitely on linked...
[May 15, 2007, 18:01]
US budgets $1bn for homeland security IT
News A major focus for HSarpa (pronounced h-sarpa) will be technology related to detecting and dealing with bio-terrorism threats, Alexander said. Alexander is the deputy director of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA), a...
[August 1, 2003, 8:50]
DPP McKinnon decision may be delayed
Blog In the US he could be charged under anti-terrorism legislation with a maximum penalty of seventy years. He has also been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, leading autism experts to argue he should not be imprisoned at all.
[February 11, 2009, 16:41]
Homeland Security bill becomes US law
News The department will gather and focus all our efforts to face the challenge of cyberterrorism, and the even worse danger of nuclear, chemical and biological terrorism," Bush said during a White House ceremony on Monday afternoon.
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
FBI to prioritise cybercrime fight
News The cybercrime focus is part of a major reorganisation that will also add new agents and put more resources toward preventing terrorism. The division is being charged with supervising investigations of federal violations where the Internet...
[May 30, 2002, 14:18]
DNA details of innocent will be kept for six years
Blog However, the Times reported on Wednesday that terrorism suspects could still have their DNA retained indefinitely. In response to a consultation it launched last December, the government said in a statement on Wednesday that it would "remove the...
[November 11, 2009, 16:23]
EU-US passenger data row heats up
News The US remains intractable on the subject of using the data for "ends other than the fight against terrorism" - for example, investigations into any crime or misdemeanour that merits a punishment over four years in prison.
[December 3, 2003, 15:45]
NASA hacker to hear fate next month
News His defence has argued that he should not be extradited as he could be tried under America's tough anti-terrorism laws. McKinnon is charged with illegally accessing 97 US Government computers and causing $700,000 worth of damage over a 12-month...
[April 12, 2006, 18:05]
