White House Cyberspace Policy Review Now Available

Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure “The President directed a 60-day, comprehensive, ‘clean-slate’ review to assess U.S. policies and structures for cybersecurity. Cybersecurity policy includes strategy, policy, and standards regarding the security of and operations in cyberspace, and encompasses the full range of threat reduction, vulnerability reduction, deterrence, international [...]

Judge Rules LifeLock’s Fraud Alert Service Illegal

In a decision that has privacy advocates and others scratching their heads, a federal judge has ruled that LifeLock has been breaking California law for years by placing fraud alerts on its customer’s credit profiles. The decision is a blow to the burgeoning identify-theft protection industry, and means that companies that experience data breaches may no longer [...]

Riley soldier charged with rapes

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. — A 19-year-old Fort Riley soldier is charged with several abductions that resulted in the rapes of at least two women Junction City. Police say charges in three similar Manhattan cases are expected to be filed next week. Junction City Police arrested Tony Tremayne Lewis at the Army post early Friday morning [...]

Soldiers plead guilty in theft operation

Two logistics soldiers assigned to a military transition team in Iraq pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing about $1.2 million in U.S. equipment and selling it to a local businessman. Capt. Elbert George, 36, and Sgt. 1st Class Roy Greene, 32, admitted in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., to stealing equipment from a [...]

Marijuana and Cocaine Should Be Legalized, Says Latin American Drugs Commission

Marijuana and cocaine for personal use should be decriminalized because the “war on drugs” has been a disaster, according to some of Latin America’s most powerful politicians and writers. The current international policy on drugs encourages corruption and violence that is threatening democracy throughout the continent, according to the former president of Brazil, Fernando Henrique [...]

Don’t Blame Pot — There’s No Such Thing as a “Gateway Drug”

Anti-drug zealots created the “gateway” theory from thin air. And it’s easily refuted: most marijuana users just don’t use other drugs. The surging debate surrounding the legalization of marijuana has brought with it the resurrection of the “gateway theory,” which alleges that experimenting with marijuana leads to the use of harder drugs like cocaine, heroin [...]