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Though the report doesn't tap terror groups by name, the implication is clear: if you don't practice good PC hygiene now, al-Qaeda or some organization like it could one day hijack your hard drive. That's not just homeland-security hype. In 2001, viruses and other malicious code caused $12 billion worth of damage to the U.S. economy with the aid of unsuspecting users. How to stop that from happening? Most of the suggestions in the cybersecurity report are pretty familiar: don't open strange email attachments; do install a firewall; choose passwords that aren't easy...
...overthrow the state," says national police commissioner Jackie Selebi, "but we take any threat to peace seriously." It is possible that some of the extremists in the Farmers' Force may have broken away from the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), which attempted a coup in the apartheid-created black homeland state of Bophuthatswana in March 1994. The rebellion was put down and the whites were ignominiously routed as the country moved to majority black rule in May. The AWB tried to keep the spark of militancy alive, but in time became just another ugly, lost cause. Its leader, Eugene Terre'-Blanche...
...universities have been quite cooperative when it comes to working with the administration to balance the needs of researchers with the needs of homeland security,” said Kathryn Harrington, spokesperson for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy...
...speech is a welcome sign that the Democrats may actually begin acting like an opposition party, and Daschle like an opposition leader. It is their responsibility to offer much-needed criticism of Bush’s budding doctrine of preemptive strikes and his vision for the new Department of Homeland Security. This is essential to promote the necessary, but as of yet quite inadequate, national debate about all of these issues—especially war with Iraq...
Hopefully, Daschle’s words will brush off any stigma Bush has carelessly attached to those willing to question the administration’s intention to wipe out Saddam Hussein’s regime, or his desire to create a Homeland Security Department that would be autocratically controlled by the president. Indeed, the majority leader’s words seem to have rallied some Democrats formerly disaffected by the quick, unquestioning passage of a resolution on war with Iraq that just a couple weeks ago seemed likely...