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Business and WikiLeaks: Be afraid

Companies must adapt to a world where no secret is safe

Correction to this article

THE digital archive of a big bank contains many secrets. So when WikiLeaks, a whistle-blowing website, promised to publish five gigabytes of files from an unnamed financial institution early next year, bankers everywhere started quaking in their hand-made shoes. And businesses were struck by an alarming thought: even if this threat proves empty, commercial secrets are no longer safe. …

Broke Heidi Montag Taking Self-Defense Classes: “I’m Afraid To Go Out Alone!”

Heidi Montag’s wardrobe is just one aspect of the washed-up villainess’ once tony lifestyle that’s feeling the brunt of her depleted finances. And you thought Speidi had all but evaporated into oblivion because nobody cared anymore! She’s lost her millions and can no longer afford her bodyguards, so the tone-deaf wannabe songstress has taken matters [...]

Joran van der Sloot to Be Afraid of Being Killed in Prison

According to Peruvian officials, Joran van der Sloot wanted to let it all hang out about the location of Natalee Holloway’s body who disappeared five years ago in Aruba.
It turned out that the Dutchman was afraid of the Peruvian prison where he stayed after being accused of the murder of business student Stephany Flores, 21.
Joran [...]

Who’s Afraid of the Singularity?

News Analysis: With futurists planning for the so-called Singularity, the question is no longer what it will be, but how we will keep it from destroying the very nature of humanity. – Two of IT’s greatest strengths are the speed at which it can be adapted to
changes in the way people use it, and the way in which it can change the people
who use it.
You could say this about tools like fire, which allowed humans to survive in
previously hostile climates, to cook food instead o…


“We Are in a Cabal… Five or Six Players … Own the Regulatory Apparatus. Everybody Is Afraid to Regulate Them”

Harold Bradley – who oversees almost $2 billion in assets as chief investment officer at the Kauffman Foundation – told the Reuters Global Exchanges and Trading Summit in New York that a cabal is preventing swap derivatives from being forced onto clear…

Colin Powell Suggests Republicans Are Afraid Of Rush Limbaugh, Says Sarah Palin Not Ready To Be President (VIDEO)

Colin Powell, in an appearance on Larry King tonight, said that Rush Limbaugh is entitled to say anything he wants, and that he doesn’t take “umbrage” with any of the remarks Limbaugh directs at him because he “can handle his criticism. Howev…

Monica Youn: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Activist?

As in every Supreme Court confirmation hearing, in Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s questioning before the Senate yesterday, accusations of “judicial activism” are flying thick and fast….