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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
U.S. government stages "mock attack" exercise to shut down bloggers.
Mark Frauenfelder: The Department of Homeland Security ran an exercise called operation "Cyber Storm," to learn how it could shut down "anti-globalization activists, underground hackers, and bloggers."
Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events.
Link (thanks, RU Sirius!)
[Boing Boing]
8:05:04 AM 
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The Compact: group vows not to buy anything new but food, underwear, and medicine in 2006.
The SF Chronicle has an article about a group of people who have made a promise not to buy any new stuff.
About 50 teachers, engineers, executives and other professionals in the Bay Area have made a vow to not buy anything new in 2006 -- except food, health and safety items and underwear.
"We're people for whom recycling is no longer enough," said one of the members of the fledgling movement, John Perry, who works in marketing at a high-tech company. "We're trying to get off the first-market consumerism grid, because consumer culture is destroying the world."
They call themselves the Compact. They have a blog, a Yahoo group and monthly meetings to reaffirm their commitment to the rule, which is to never buy anything new."
"We had a little crisis when Matt and Sarah had to replace their shower curtain liner and we said no," said Perry, who lives in Bernal Heights. "But we put the word out and someone found one for them. It's like the Amish -- we help each other out. We raise a barn every week."
Link (Thanks, Arwen!)
[Boing Boing]
8:03:56 AM
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