Unless you’re Canadian living at the countryside, it is a no-brainer tip that we should lock our doors and ensure we take precautionary steps to mitigate property theft. It would be also really unwise to write down your safety deposit box combination code in a notebook or speak out loud your ATM passcode at the […]
Security printing and emerging markets: European players to succumb to the sirens’ song?
The security printing market is changing fast. Over the past decade, economies worldwide have gone from swift to sluggish, and from atonic to energetic. With every shift, the demand in currency printing is affected. Security printers from the Western world are figuring out how to make sure the few profitable clients the world has left […]
Anthony Wile, Ron Paul Denounce Hate-Crime Expansion
Freedom of speech is an increasingly rare commodity it seems. Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has just announced he wants to set up an international consortium to monitor “hate speech.” Hate speech, like so-called free-speech zones and other forms of censorship, is part of a 21st century evolution of linguistic sophistry. The concept is only […]
OK so your a federal employee who has just been informed your personal information was hacked – now what?
On June 4th, 2015 the Department of Defense offered the following advice to those affected in a recent theft of information from federal employee database. The statement read as follows: “The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently became aware of a cybersecurity incident affecting its systems and data that may have exposed the personal […]
Bosnia:Identifying War Victim’s Remains
By David Nelson Painstaking task of identifying remains of war victims and matching them to living relatives. The bones of a young man in his twenties rest on a metal table in the Bosnian town of Tuzla. He has no name, but the International Commission on Missing Persons hopes to give him one soon. The skeletal […]
Changes of Mind – Ends, Means and Goals
In this article, author Phin Upham examines the surprisingly complex philosophical implications of the simple act of changing your mind. What does it mean to change one’s mind? In discussing this problem we must come to an understanding of what it means to have an intention, what is relevant in changing that intention, […]