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Warren Buffett, "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure. Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around. *Congressional Reform Act of 2011* 1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receive...

| America’s wars are forcing Afghans and Iraqis to flee their homes in greater numbers. According to a recent U.N. High Commission for Refugees study, nearly one half of the world’s refugees are from Afghanistan and Iraq, 3.05 million and 1.68 million, respectively. But neither the United States nor much of the developed world bears the burden of the 10.55 million refugees under the UNHCR’s purview globally. Instead, Pakistan, Iran, and Syria serve as the top host countries. [ Read more ]

FBI, Telecoms Teamed to Breach Wiretap Laws. Read more at ThreatLevel... Related story - Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases. Read more at ThreatLevel ...

As we all know by now, the partly successful attempt to hack Google's corporate network was accomplished by exploiting the Zero-Day IE flaw and in the case Adobe the Zero-Day vulnerability in Adobe's Reader was used. Once the hacker(s) gained control of workstations inside the networks of Google and Adobe they installed a Trojan program called Trojan.Hydraq in order to siphon credentials and other data to further infiltrate the company networks and spread the attack. Adobe isn't saying much other than acknowledging and that no customer / employee data was compromised. All in all , no one really knows the whole truth. However it is clear these were "highly coordinated and sophisticated" attacks originating from China, as was described by a Google spokesperson. THIS IS YET ANOTHER REASON NOT TO USE THE IE BROWER -- DOWNLOAD FIREFOX TODAY! Read Entire Story @ ThreatLevel

My Prayers to the Haitian Community.

Rosa Rosa Penumbras Quiero Te Propongo Porque Yo Te Amo América Latina esta de luto. Siempre vivirás en nuestros corazones a través de tu música. Descansa en paz amigo...

Found at Michael Hale Ligh's Security Blog : Feebs is a DLL that hooks usermode API functions in order to hide processes, among other resources. The FindFeebs program is really just a fun example of how to use C++ vectors and process listing snapshots in order to determine what is hidden on the system Copies of FindFeebs and DumpCore on Google Code