Identity Crisis Down Under

The issue of identity and allegiance is key to the kind of bad behavior we often write about.  Security personnel need to know how to verify the identity of the…

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Fear of Terrorism

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Since as recently as January 2015, there have been dozens of terrorist attacks in Europe: in Germany, Denmark, Belgium, France, Turkey, the U.K., Sweden, Spain and most recently Finland.  Hundreds…

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Prone to Violence

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On May 10th of this year, the FBI and the Homeland Security Department issued an eight-page bulletin entitled “White Supremacist Extremism Poses Persistent Threat with Lethal Violence”.  The analysis pointed…

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The Drone Police

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Drones are prominently in the news this week.  The U.S. Department of Defense has given military bases new guidelines allowing them to shoot down consumer drones trespassing on (above) military…

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DHS Reauthorization

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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Reauthorization of the Department of Homeland Security Act, bill HR 2825.  The vote was 386 for and 41 against, with 32 democrats…

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Passports

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                        A passport is a critical travel document without which you are literally grounded. We might nowadays associate passports…

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Textalyzer

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Perhaps you can relate: driving to work this morning on the highway a car in the lane next to me started to gradually slow down and then it was swerving…

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Invisible Code

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Earlier this month, NSA employee Ms. Reality Winner was found distributing a printed copy of sensitive information to the publication Intercept.  Although the NSA did not verify the exact means…

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Iran’s Push for Power

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Since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has tried to establish itself as a dominant power in the Middle East. The goal to dominate during the Iran-Iraq war of the…

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