BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

I had a chance to participate in a mini-conference on victims of cybercrime recently. The over-riding complaint was the unwillingness and inability of police to take victims of cybercrime seriously. Particularly female victims; who are often portrayed as 'just women out for revenge.' Some of these women were subsequently physically attacked and only then did law enforcement take them seriously. Cybercrime is progressing faster than the law and the police know how to deal with it. So often rather than admit they 'don't know what to do' - police blow-off the victims. This is dangerous. I don't know what the solution is but if you're a victim of any crime, including cybercrime - go to the police and demand that they make a report. Ask to see the supervisor until you find someone willing to make a report and GIVE YOU A COPY OF THE REPORT. Maybe the shooter in Pittsburgh could have been stopped if someone had taken his online threats more seriously... IF Y...

So many other bloggers are doing a much, much better job of covering the current Middle East situation better than me. But suffice it to say I am sick sick sick of hearing what "horrible" people the Israelis are for PROTECTING THEMSELVES, AND THEIR PEOPLE - and for taking DECISIVE ACTION against terrorists who WANT THEM DEAD. Answer the clue phone, media. You're being used. Again. FROM THE AEGEAN STABLES: Whether by Israeli accident or Hamas engineering, expect a spectacular civilian massacre in the coming days, followed by an orgy of Pallywood photography, amplified by a compliant Western media, and even greater fury in the streets of the Muslim and Western world. It’s in the Hamas playbook… and will be until the media gets sober. Here’s the background, and the obscenity that will probably be played. Barry Rubin has laid out the various endgames open to Hamas, and how, when all else fails, it’s the media reserves you draw on to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. ...