Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Thanks, I hope so too!

3,061 posted on 07/08/2004 8:08:56 PM PDT by Jill St Claire

To: nw_arizona_granny

Another humor break:

Subject: Passport Please

The elderly American gentleman arrived in Paris by plane.
At the French Customs counter, he fumbled for his passport.

"You 'ave been to 'Franze' before, monsieur?" the customs officer
asked sarcastically.

The old gent admitted that he had been to France previously.

"Zen, you should know enough to 'ave your passport ready for inspection."

The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."

"Zat is impossible! You Americans alwayz 'ave to show your passports on arrival in Franze!"

The American senior gave the Frenchman a long, hard look. Then he quietly explained.

"Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in '44, I couldn't find any Frenchmen to show it to."

3,062 posted on 07/08/2004 8:10:20 PM PDT by Revel

Group threatens to kill Bulgarians

Thursday, July 8, 2004 Posted: 7:42 PM EDT (2342 GMT)

(CNN) -- An Iraqi insurgent group has threatened to behead two Bulgarian hostages within 24 hours if the United States does not release all prisoners in Iraq, according to a video aired by Al-Jazeera.

Video showed the two unidentified Bulgarians sitting down with their hands tied, while three armed masked men stood behind them........

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/08/iraq.bulgaria/index.html

3,063 posted on 07/08/2004 8:11:27 PM PDT by freeperfromnj

Mozilla user alert:

Security hole found in Mozilla browser

By John Borland
CNET News.com
July 8, 2004, 6:25 PM PT

Developers at the open-source Mozilla Foundation have confirmed that the latest version of their Web browsers have a security flaw that could theoretically allow attackers to crash computers or launch unauthorized programs.

The flaw was publicized Wednesday on a security mailing list, along with a link to a fix for the problem . Updated versions of the affected software programs, which include the Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird browsers, have been released. (snipped)

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5262676.html

3,064 posted on 07/08/2004 8:12:02 PM PDT by Honestly (There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.)

To: Calpernia; JustPiper

Had a voter survey call--tailored for NM. Sure gave lots of VERY CONSERVATIVE responses!

Couldn't find out who was paying for it.

Seemed to be worded more fairly than the DIMRAT polls often are.

3,065 posted on 07/08/2004 8:18:59 PM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)

Yes...I thought it was pretty neat that if you visit Mozilla.org with firefox then it will come right out and tell you this...and it gives you the link to install the patch -which takes seconds. The patch can be installed on nescape 7.1 also...for those who use that. I just had someone try it and it worked. Anyone using a mozilla product should visit

http://www.mozilla.org/security/shell.html

3,066 posted on 07/08/2004 8:19:11 PM PDT by Revel

That article is not good news. I searched al-jezerra (sp?) and didn't find anything.

3,067 posted on 07/08/2004 8:21:45 PM PDT by Oorang ( Those who trade liberty for security have neither)

... and what's with all the power failures?!

EUREKA, Calif. - An equipment failure is being blamed for a power outage that swept through most of downtown Eureka overnight.
The blackout happened around 12:40 a.m. Wednesday, leaving some 10,500 Pacific Gas and Electric customers in the city without power for most of the night. The outage area stretched from Pierson's in south Eureka to Myrtletown and west to Humboldt Bay. Power was restored shortly after 6 a.m.
PHOENIX - Phoenix was again faced with the threat of rolling blackouts on Thursday with a key substation out of service and a forest fire blazing close to a major power line.
"There are a lot of things at play here. Today and tomorrow are going to be critical. In the summer Thursday is a big day for us in terms of load," Sheri Foote, spokeswoman for the state's largest utility, Arizona Public Service, said. Foote said the utility should know by mid-afternoon whether rolling blackouts may be needed.
VISALIA, Calif. - Hundreds arriving for medical appointments at one of Visalia's largest clinics were turned away Wed-nesday after a transformer failed and caused a power outage that covered several blocks.
The outage took out power for 1,800 customers on both sides of Akers Street north and south of Highway 198, said Glen Cardaronella, spokesman for Southern California Edison. The problem was a bad transformer and underground connections.
GONZALES, Calif. - More than 600 Gonzales households went without electricity most of Wednesday morning before Pacific Gas and Electric Co. restored service at 2 p.m.
The outage, which began at 7:45 a.m., was the latest in a series of blackouts that have affected Gonzales in the past few days.
To restore power Wednesday, crews fixed an insulator on Highway 101 in Soledad, said PG&E spokesman Brian Swanson. An insulator connects high voltage wires to the wire pole.
CRANBURY, N.J. - The Associated Press suffered a 59-minute power outage at a key data center Wednesday morning, affecting services to members and subscribers.
The agency said it’s investigating the cause of the disruption at its Cranbury data center. Power was restored at 10:53 a.m. EDT, according to a spokesman, who told Newspapers & Technology that systems were switched to AP’s backup data center in Kansas City, Mo.
The outage is the first since the Cranbury data center went into operation in 1993, AP said. It occurred during a routine test of generator and UPS backup systems, said John Reid, AP’s senior vice president for services and technology.
LAKESIDE, Calif. – Crews from San Diego Gas & Electric worked this morning (July 7) to restore power to 2,800 residences in Lakeside, officials said.
The power went out just before 8 a.m. in an area bordered by Valle Vista Road and state Route 67 to the northwest down to Rockcrest Road to the south and El Monte Road to the east, SDG&E spokeswoman Stephanie Donovan said.
The cause of the outage is under investigation and it was not determined when power would be restored, Donovan said.
"There is a lot of underground circuitry in that area, so this might take a while," Donovan said. "But we are working our hardest to find the problem."

3,068 posted on 07/08/2004 8:21:49 PM PDT by JellyJam

OH and if you download firefox...a new version has already been released with the patch incorperated. Try that with IE.

3,069 posted on 07/08/2004 8:22:01 PM PDT by Revel

To: judicial meanz

Well, you have a good memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalia

3,070 posted on 07/08/2004 8:26:54 PM PDT by Oorang ( Those who trade liberty for security have neither)

Former Kuwaiti ambassador says it would be 'catastrophic' for Mideast if Kerry wins (AP) 8 July 2004

KUWAIT CITY - It would be "catastrophic" for the Middle East if Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry was elected to the White House, a former Kuwaiti ambassador to Washington said in comments published yesterday.

Shaikh Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, who was Kuwait's ambassador to the United States when Republican president George Bush formed a US-led coalition to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army in the 1991 Gulf War, said a Republican government would do a better job in solving the region's problems. "If the American administration changes in November, it will be catastrophic ... because those Democrats do not understand a thing about foreign policy, and they lack the determination to make decisions the way (President George W.) Bush made them in Iraq and elsewhere," Shaikh Saud told Al Siyassah daily in an interview conducted recently in Kuwait.

Shaikh Saud told the daily that he feared a Democratic government would "fumble" when making decisions about the Middle East. (snipped)

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2004/July/middleeast_July219.xml&section=middleeast&col=

3,071 posted on 07/08/2004 8:35:30 PM PDT by Honestly (There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.)

USA
"POSSIBLE SURVEILLANCE TESTING TACTICS" Police bulletin reports K-9 cops on high alert over "suspicious packages pattern." Five empty suitcases left at Penn Station, FBI headquarters and other hot spots: 3,000 police with bomb-sniffing dogs will sweep 3,000 subways and trains entering Penn Station after warnings terrorists may be preparing Madrid-type attack on railways. (NY Post) PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRRORISM said terrorist attacks in 2003 down from 198 in 2002 to 190, but up from 77 to 88 against U.S. interests. Figures exclude Iraq.

http://www.sofmag.com/display.do?id=54

3,072 posted on 07/08/2004 8:37:51 PM PDT by Revel

Power shortage: 6,400 factories to go off-line
www.chinaview.cn 2004-07-09 09:29:00

BEIJING, July.9(Xinhuanet) -- Due to summer's unquenchable power thirst, about 6,400 industrial enterprises in and around Beijing will be shut down for a week.(snip)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-07/09/content_1585437.htm

3,073 posted on 07/08/2004 8:54:29 PM PDT by Honestly (There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.)

To: appalachian_dweller

Thanks for the ping -- will do.

Remember to keep your cars/trucks gas tanks at least 1/2 full at all times. If we lose power the pumps won't work.

3,074 posted on 07/08/2004 8:55:35 PM PDT by GOPJ

One more interesting thing. I just read somewhere else that the mozilla exploit only worked in windows xp and windows 2000. I don't know if that is true or not.

3,075 posted on 07/08/2004 8:56:24 PM PDT by Revel

Hey...I agree with the guy. If the John-John team gets in then we might as well bend over and kiss....

3,076 posted on 07/08/2004 8:58:06 PM PDT by Revel

"Due to summer's unquenchable power thirst, about 6,400 industrial enterprises in and around Beijing will be shut down for a week.(snip)"

Prices are going up at Wal-mart...LOL

3,077 posted on 07/08/2004 8:59:11 PM PDT by Revel

When CERT advised against using IE, my computer geek son advised me to use Opera. I don't much about Mozilla (or Opera), but I noticed several posts from people who switched to Mozilla and Firefox. I adopted Granny's philosophy of welcoming all the help I can get, and I hope we can all help each other so nobody gets hacked.

3,078 posted on 07/08/2004 9:04:48 PM PDT by Honestly (There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.)

3,079 posted on 07/08/2004 9:06:20 PM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)

I agree. It surprised me to see it in print in this newspaper.

3,080 posted on 07/08/2004 9:08:00 PM PDT by Honestly (There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.)

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