April 7, 2004

"What do you do when you let an employee go? You kill their password and ID, right? Air Canada didn't, and they're now in court because the employee went to a competitor, wrote some cool automated scripts using the ID/password, and grabbed some company data." Interesting story, because Air Canada authorized the employee to access this website and book tickets for himself as part of his severance, but they apparently provide a little more data on that site than what is available to the public. [ Slashdot ] 10:41:17 PM

I think this is the first admission I've actually seen that the NSA actually monitors Internet traffic... Arrests key win for NSA hackers The Globe and Mail, Canada - Citing anonymous sources in the British intelligence community, The Sunday Times reported that an e-mail message intercepted by NSA spies precipitated in the arrest of nine men in Britain and one in suburban Orleans, Ont. -- 24-year-old software developer Mohammed Momin Khawaja, who has since been charged with facilitating a terrorist act and being part of a terrorist group. 10:35:16 PM

'Gmail' slammed as being like Big Brother Wisconsin State Journal, WI - Google Inc. hails its new e-mail service as a breakthrough in online communication, but consumer watchdogs are attacking it as a creepy invasion of privacy that threatens to set a troubling precedent. 6:14:14 AM

Mountain View, Calif., Museum Celebrates Historic IBM Collaboration - Miami.com 6:06:32 AM