Bouncer 'killed over smoking ban'. A New York bouncer has been stabbed to death after trying to enforce a new city-wide smoking ban, police say. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]

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DMCA Misused Again, Stifling Speech. Slashdot: Blackboard Campus IDs: Security Thru Cease & Desist. On Saturday night, Virgil and Acidus, two young security researchers, were... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

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Security a bright spot for IT spending. Technology spending remains depressed, but increased government spending and concern about privacy could have security companies riding higher in a down market. [CNET News.com]

Bullshit! I bet this is just earmarking money for security and then using for something else. As Bruce Schneier said in todays CryptoGram:

This is an example of a non-security agenda co-opting a security countermeasure, and it happens a lot. Airlines were in favor of the photo ID requirement not because of some vague threat of terrorism, but because it killed the practice of reselling nonrefundable tickets. Hotels make a copy of your driver's license not because of security, but because they want your information for their marketing database.

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Cyberattacks With Offline Damage. A recent paper by a computer security researcher suggests that there are plenty of gateways that connect cyberattacks to the offline world. By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology]

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