Bob9113 (14996) writes "According to Glenn Greenwald, reporting in The Guardian: 'A June 2010 report from the head of the NSA's Access and Target Development department is shockingly explicit. The NSA routinely receives – or intercepts – routers, servers, and other computer network devices being exported from the US before they are delivered to the international customers. The agency then implants backdoor surveillance tools, repackages the devices with a factory seal, and sends them on. The NSA thus gains access to entire networks and all their users. The document gleefully observes that some "SIGINT tradecraft is very hands-on (literally!)".'"

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Bob9113 (14996) writes "According to Glenn Greenwald, reporting in The Guardian: 'A June 2010 report from the head of the NSA's Access and Target Development department is shockingly explicit. The NSA routinely receives – or intercepts – routers, servers, and other computer network devices being exported from the US before they are delivered to the international customers. The agency then implants backdoor surveillance tools, repackages the devices with a factory seal, and sends them on. The NSA thus gains access to entire networks and all their users. The document gleefully observes that some "SIGINT tradecraft is very hands-on (literally!)".'"

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Leaders of eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions declare independence after claiming victory in Sunday's self-rule vote.

Leaders of eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions declare independence after claiming victory in Sunday's self-rule vote.

Vänsterpartiet har på flera punkter tagit ställning mot förbättrade rättigheter för hbt-personer i EU-parlamentet. I RFSL:s granskning hamnar de tillsammans med Sverigedemokraterna och Kristdemokraterna bland de allra sämsta.

You think you have problems getting a bank loan? It's much harder for a small-town woman in Uganda or India. But Indian microfinance provider ASOMI has more than 50 branches and over 40,000 clients, and is an active Mifos user. The loans ASOMI makes are absurdly small by U.S. bank (or Indian bank) standards. Ugandans in the same "I just need a little bit of money to start (or expand) my business" predicament can turn to RedMutual Microfinance. And so on around the world, with the bulk of microfinance operators who use open source Mifos concentrated in S. and S.E. Asia and India. "But," you say, "I'm an IT person. I don't want to go into the microfinance business, and one of the little loans (often less than $100) they deal with wouldn't help me." True. But you can become a Mifos Specialist, which Mifos defines as "a consulting firm that provides technical support and consultation for microfinance institutions evaluating and deploying Mifos, and for ongoing use and customization." You won't get rich doing this, but it looks like there's a decent living (by Kenyan or Indonesian standards) in working with Mifos. They can use volunteer help, too. So check out Mifos and see if it has anything to offer you -- or if you have anything to offer Mifos. Either way, you can help poor people in poor countries become entrepreneurs and break the cycle of poverty that holds them down. (Alternate video link)

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När en nioårig pojke i Härnösand efter en skoldag öppnade chattappen Kik Messenger på sin mobiltelefonen dök det plötsligt upp ett dödshot. Meddelandet var en form av kedjebrev där mottagaren uppmanades att skicka det vidare till tio andra personer - eller få halsen avskuren med ett svärd.

High level email parsing and manipulation

High level email parsing and manipulation

SDL bindings to Perl

SDL bindings to Perl

convert a list of files with full paths to a tree