Cody Taylor

Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice shed new light on the Bush administration’s warrantless domestic spying last week when he told MSNBC that the NSA blended credit card transaction records with wiretap data to keep tabs on thousands of Americans.

When Consumerist reader Eric Zissen’s brother died in his Florida apartment, he made a big mistake. He failed to give the landlord 60 days advance notice he was going to die. Or so it would seem judging from the fact that the Sun Harbour apartment complex jacked his security deposit and charged his estate rent for the remaining three months of the

In a season of transformational changes, the order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and CIA “black site” prisons, and the order to place interrogation in all American facilities by all U.S. personnel under the guidelines of the Army Field Manual send a powerful message that America’s struggle against terrorism will again honor American values.

A bomb attack by Sudanese government planes on a town in southern Darfur killed and wounded civilians, peacekeepers said. Air attacks in Darfur are forbidden under a 2006 peace deal and U.N. Security Council resolutions.

An anonymous reader writes “John Schiefer, the Los Angeles security consultant who in last 2007 admitted wielding a 250,000-node botnet to steal bank passwords, sometimes from work, says he’s spent the past 15 working as a professional in the security scene while awaiting sentencing. Prosecutors are pushing for a five-year sentence, noting the exceptional threat he represented to society.”

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Barence writes “The European Commission could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with future versions of Windows. The revelation came as part of Microsoft’s quarterly filing with the Security and Exchange Commission. Among the statements is a clause outlining the penalties being considered by the European watchdog, which recently ruled that Microsoft is harming competition by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. The most interesting situation outlined in the filing would see either Microsoft or computer manufacturers forced to install Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari by default alongside Internet Explorer on new Windows-based PCs.”

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President Barack Obama on Saturday laid out more pieces of an economic plan he says would add 3,000 miles of electrical lines, increase security at 90 ports and double the United States’ renewable energy capacity within three years.