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Scanners that see through clothing installed in US airports

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

While it allows the security screeners — looking at the images in a separate room — to clearly see the passenger’s sexual organs as well as other details of their bodies, the passenger’s face is blurred, TSA said in a statement on its website… Read more!

Facebook: Danger to Israeli Security?

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Read and laugh:

Israeli soldiers warned about Facebook [USA TODAY]

Israeli defense officials say they’ve identified an unlikely new threat to national security - Facebook.

A new list of rules aims to prevent soldiers and Defense Ministry employees from revealing classified information on social networking sites. The officials say some soldiers have uploaded pictures of themselves with classified [...]

A Day With Hedy Epstein

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

A warning to readers, the below article contains graphic passages.

In January of this year, my teenage daughter and I went to an event in Los Angeles sponsored by Women in Black at which Hedy Epstein*, a Holocaust survivor, ardent anti-Zionist, human rights worker spoke. Hedy did not speak of her own biography today, but from [...]

Who’s your online enemy?

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Web-savvy criminals have turned Israel into the world’s highest ranking source of malicious Internet activity per user, security experts have told The Jerusalem Post.

From July through December 2006, 9 percent of all such activity could be traced back to Israel. Taiwan came next with 8%, while Poland and the US tied at 6%, according to [...]