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Cryptome has provided new documents related to the EU’s requirements for telecommunications interception and surveillance. An exerpt from ETSI TS 101 331 V1.1.1 (2001-08) Technical Specification: Telecommunications security; Lawful Interception (LI); Requirements of Law Enforcement Agencies

The present document gives guidance for lawful interception of telecommunications in the area of co-operation by network operators, access providers, and service providers. It provides a set of requirements relating to handover interfaces for the interception by law enforcement and state security agencies. Requirements with regard to telecommunications services provided from areas outside national boundaries are not fully developed yet and therefore only some preliminary requirements have been annexed for information.

Gen. George Patton v. EU Commissioner Chris F. Patten

James Bennett has a good article on globalization. As he points out,

The anti-globalization movement is, at heart, I believe, a pack of idiots without a coherent critique, analysis or program. Paradoxically, the volume of its squawking has made it harder to have a clear-minded discussion about the pace, nature and shape of globalization.

He then goes on to discuss the rate at which we can expect globalization to occur, and some of the side effects we can expect from it. Well worth the read.

Yahoo and CapWiz have a tool available that lets you locate and contact policital officer holders, and media, local to a zipcode and contact them from the web. It also lets you review press releases and bulletins from advocacy groups on a per-issue basis. Pretty nifty.

(via InstaPundit): An excellent article on how the sudden over-emphasis on security isn’t doing us any good.

My brother Pat and his friend Ryan worked on a wind tunnel for some eighth graders down in south west Virginia. They even got in the local paper for it.

Well, I’m not posting much serious stuff today, because I’m sitting at work, being bored. But it is noteworthy that Israel and the Palestinians are escalating the situation in the Middle East.

Is this what liberals mean when they say capitalists are “Fat Cats”?

I was scanning MemePool when I came across this:

Children, beware of the evil Keyboard Woman. Got to wonder if she is a relative or self-proclaimed Peter Pan.

“Beware” indeed….

I’m starting to consider writing a plug-in for Netscape Mail to support at least reading PGP/MIME. The PGPsdk is freely available, and Netscape’s Plug-in API seems pretty straightforward.