All Posts Tagged NSA

Spy agency help Microsoft build Vista

January 9th, 2007 | No comments

It may have been a good move to get some hardcore security guys involved in the development of Vista, but a lot of people are going to question why Microsoft looked to the NSA, which has been under fire recently for spying on people at the request of the Bush Administration. Adding fuel to the [...]

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Qwest serious about privacy, or just politics and PR

August 23rd, 2006 | No comments

Qwest was recently praised for ingoring a request from the NSA for data on it’s subscribers. They looked like good guys and gals. People purportedly rushed to get their services. Their employees certainly ran around town, chatting it up. Fast forward. Qwest is at it again, only this time the talk is heavy endorsement of [...]

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Time for a telecomm “trade’

May 16th, 2006 | No comments

telecomm, net neutrality, NSA

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NSA’s Hands Deep in the Cookie Jar

December 29th, 2005 | No comments

The NSA has been snagged serving cookies to it’s website visitors’ computers, despite federal rules against the practice. The cookies expire when? 2035. Hmm. Who else does such things? They had an excuse – an overlooked software upgrade. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Bush Administration now pins the whole spying fiasco on the NSA, [...]

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No Child Left Behind working after all?

December 26th, 2005 | No comments

The folks I know in the education space, including some teachers, a few policy makers, and the higher-ups at a couple of for-profit institutions, have pissed and moaned about the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind program. I’ve heard funding is the big issue, but I can’t opine on the matter myself, as education just [...]

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