Canada Agog at Security Price Tag for Summit – NYTimes.com. The Battle of Seattle only caused $3M in property damage. So zero police presence probably would have kept the “anarchists” at bay and even if they caused $30M in damage we could have easily saved several hundred millions in costs.

Top 20 Nginx WebServer Best Security Practices. that is a crazy list of stuff.

Official Google Blog: A new approach to China. some crazy china news.

BBC NEWS | Web attack ‘aimed at one blogger’. Seems the denial of service attack on twitter and facebook was targeting just one anti-russia blogger from georgia.

Largest Coordinated ATM Rip-off Ever Nets $9+ Million in 30 Minutes | NetworkWorld.com. this sounds like something from a bad movie.

TheStar.com | GTA | Accidental tourists land in hot water at border. this guy almost drowned in the Niagara River, washed up in the US, was brought to hospitals, and is now being held in detention for “illegally entering the US”.

TSA security theater | MetaFilter. how does this farce keep up?

Here’s How America Looks to the World – washingtonpost.com “Fear, in other words, is a tax, and al-Qaeda and its ilk have done better at extracting it from Americans than the Internal Revenue Service.” via ram.

NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data – WSJ.com. well that’s terrifying. via ram.

The Anonymity Experiment | Popular Science. how to try to get off the grid. via josh.

China redirected Google and Yahoo to Baidu on the day the US gave the Dalai Lama an award. I’m surprised this wasn’t mainstream news.

Thomas Friedman on the 9/11 rut that American is in. he even references the Onion in the piece.

QuarkRuby: Ruby on Rails Security Guide. nice checklist.

footle » Protecting Your Users’ Data with a Privacy Wall. the privacy scheme is pretty obvious but they have some good tips on other production problems that come up.

“Gene Carson worked for the National Security Agency since its founding in 1952. After forty-six years of service, Carson died, leaving a retirement account worth close to one million dollars to a woman that he felt he knew and loved, but who herself didn’t even know that Carson existed.” He listened to her calls for 40 years. via ram.

Wincent Colaiuta’s weblog: WordPress flaw “In fact, it’s not just that I can’t recommend installing it; it’s that it would be irresponsible to do anything but recommend that people uninstall it.” i think that might be a slight hyperbole.

How credit-card information went out wireless door. they stole 40 million credit cards from a stores crappy wireless network? i’m kinda suspicious of this being true. via josh.

Schneier on Aqua Teen Hunger Force Terror Alert. I personally think Homeland security should replace the yellow, red, green levels with meatball, fries, and shake.

Tracked in America. profiles of people who have been under surveillance by the us government.

Gaming YouTube for Fun and Profit – Mashable!. seems that getting to the top of youtube is pretty damn easy