The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/07/2007
Lucknow, Dec 7 - The regional passport office here Friday launched the country's first passport inquiry service through SMS messages in association with the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL).
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 12/07/2007
Pac-Man gets festive in Spain Customizable cup avoids that awkward ‘is that my cup or yours'’ party moment CG Holiday 2007 Recommendation: Western Digital Passport Forkchops - What I want for Xmas Word Perhect: That's not a typo and go try it out
Techbargains.com (Free subscription) | 12/07/2007
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 12/07/2007
Canada to Florida, a rocky road... Two "Baby Boomers" getting their gap year done :)
Jay & Silent Rob (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
Since last year's TJX security breach, online site security and identity theft (two aspects of the Internet that have always been a concern) was suddenly pushed to surface and brought to the attention of the average user. While people were always aware of ID theft, nothing had ever occurred on this scale, or at least [...]
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
I’m asked to travel quite often and that entails taking lots of pictures and videos on said trips. It also means the paltry 60GB drive on my MacBook is brimming at capacity until I start deleting content about every other day. It's frustrating and annoying. I have music, comics, and movies to keep me entertained [...]
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
From the Washington Post: The Flaws In the Iran Report, by John Bolton. From Foreign Affairs: The Costs of Containing Iran, by Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh. From the Wall Street Journal: Gitmo Goes to Court, by David B. Rivkin...
BetaNews (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
An Ontario man discovered last week that the Web site meant to allow Canadians to apply for passports was allowing access to information on other applicants.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
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Zee News (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
New Delhi, Dec 06: The Government has proposed to introduce e-passports in the ordinary category, after a pilot project for diplomats by mid-2008. Also known as bio-metric passports, the e-passports will initially be introduced for diplomats and officials as a pilot project by the middle of 2008, Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed told Rajya Sabha today. "Based on the experience gained...
Computer World (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
A trivial change to URLs on the Passport Canada site allowed curious folk to see other applicants' personal information. Now the office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is assessing the breach -- and the damage to public confidence.
ITBusiness.ca - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
Breach leads to clamour for California-style disclosure law, forcing organizations to inform the public when a breach has occurred.
Carpetblogger (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
The map is promoting a new book called Transit Maps of the World. It's a promotional e-card that shows what would happen if you connected...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
'Missing' canoeist John Darwin's wife admits she knew her husband was alive.
Techdirt (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
Back in the early days of the web, there were plenty of stories about a rather simple security breach on various sites. Basically, many sites would simply pass a user's account number through as a part of the URL. If a user simply changed the URL, her or she could see the account info of that other issue associated with the new number. After a few such cases came to light, most web app designers quickly...
