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Aviation security expert: TSA wasted $56B on junk security

Ben Brandt, once an aviation security advisor to Delta, has published a scathing indictment of the TSA and its methods, arguing that they’ve spent $56B on “security” that won’t stop terrorists, while ignoring actual threats. But the last several years’ worth of plots on the friendly skies indicate the terrorists have switched their game plans. [...]

A security guard described on Monday how a director of a security company was shot dead while trying to stop a fleeing robber at Irene Mall, outside Pretoria – IOL News. Evans Mavhina, a guard at the mall, was testifying in the High Court in Pretoria in the murder trial of Zwakahle Mavundla, 27, of [...]

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Obama builds on national security record

A single moment that may have defined President Obama as a surprisingly tough commander in chief came in December 2009, when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize while leading two wars – USA Today. “I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people,” he [...]

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Cloud computing will make the intelligence community more secure and efficient, NSA director and U.S. Cyber Command commander Gen. Keith Alexander said Thursday. In a speech in Baltimore before security professionals and a subsequent interview with InformationWeek and other media, Alexander touted the cloud as a key part of the intelligence community’s IT strategy. He [...]

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