The odd-musings of Jared, the Director of Network Security for IAPS Security Services.

Folks, I’ve created new VPN instructions for Mac’s newest creation: Snow Leopard. If you are an IAPS VPN client and you cannot make our system work on your Snow Leopard system, drop us a line and we’ll get right back to you with new and updated instructions.

Resellers – You should have received the new set of instructions by now. If not, get in touch and we’ll get them to you.

Folks, the new U.S. based dynamic VPN service is almost complete. I’m in testing stages right now and hope to rap it up in the next 24 hours before I release it to the general public. So please bear with me for the time. I know there is a great demand for it and I’m working on it as fast as possible.

I’m also in the process of developing new VPN instructions to come into compliance with the needs of the Mac Snow Leopard operating system. I’ll have those new instructions completed as well in the next 24 hours. Thank you all for your continued support of the IAPS Security Store. We all appreciate it tremendously.

Hi Folks,

As part of a limited time offer, the IAPS Security Store is temporarily bringing back our trial program. This will include a full 24 hour trial of the network of your choice. Choices include the following:

United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Switzerland
Luxembourg
France
Spain
Belgium

Services include both Secure Shell & Virtual Private Networks. All trial account requests must be submitted through the appropriate contact page.

Hi Folks,

I don’t normally send messages out regarding surplus services that we have. However I thought I’d check with you folks first before I make a decision on returning the surplus French ip addresses we have available for our French VPN servers. We have such a large stock of French ip addresses that I’m willing to go out on a limb here and offer out yearly French VPN services at 50% off our normal rates. If you are interested in this service and have a use for a French ip address please let me know by using our secure contact page. Thank you.

P.S. For those of you interested, the yearly cost right now for dedicated French VPN access would be $67.50 USD and that covers 365 days of continuous service.

This list is published for all webmasters out there that are tired of the fake Nigerian website registrations they receive 24 hours a day. Many Nigerians attempt to sign up on a site such as a social networking or dating site and try to run their scams. Use this list to block their entire internet service provider ranges:

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A California court has issued a subpoena demanding Google reveal the IP addresses of journalists writing for a corruption busting journal from the Caribbean.

The August 28 subpoena, issued by the Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, as part of a “libel tourism” action taken by non-US property developers, demands detailed information about the operators of “tcijournal@gmail.com”. The account is the main email address of the TCI Journal, the most influential journal covering the Turks & Caicos Islands. The Islands are a tourist mecca and tax haven in the Caribbean sea, and until August 14 were an independent British protectorate.

Exposures in the Journal culminated in a dramatic UK governance takeover of the Islands on August 14.

A trail of evidence dug up by the TCI Journal, a UK commission of inquiry, and others, showed that foreign property developers were giving millions in secret loans and payments to senior Islander politicians, including an alleged $500,000 cash payment to the Island’s now former Premier, Michael Misick.

The Commission of Inquiry Final Report was released on the 18th of July this year in significatly redacted form. A full version was released by WikiLeaks. A High Court case ensued which initially enjoined all media in the Islands from reporting the redacted findings, however within a few days this restriction was overturned.

The Gmail subpeona applicant, property developer Dr. Cem Kinay, along with his two companies, Turks Ltd, and Star Platinum Island, were mentioned several times during public oral hearings of the Commission of Inquiry and featured significantly in the redacted portions of the Commission’s Final Report.

In particular there are allegations of bribery of public officials (e.g of the Premier with an irregular payment of $500,000), in the acquisition of public land valued by the government appraiser at approximately $60 – $100 million dollars U.S., for a price of $3.2 million dollars.

On August 14, the UK announced that it had taken direct rule over the Islands and suspended its parliament.

According to the notifying letter from Google to the Journal, Google intends to hand over the requested records in just over two weeks, without any defense, and states that the Journal may file a counter-motion with the Santa-Clara court itself.

Subpoenas for records are rubber-stamped by US courts, meaning that anyone in a position to start law suits in California can obtain private information about Gmail users who are not in a position to respond in kind, including cash-strapped corruption busting journalists from the Caribbean.

Google has elected to keep extensive, non-anoymized records on its users, but not defend these records from disclosure. This combination, together with inequitable access to justice in Californian courts, is toxic.
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From: Google Legal Support
Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [#498732750] Subpoena Notice from Google (internal reference
#67723)
To: tcijournal@gmail.com

Thank you,
Google Legal Support
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Your good pals at Google are further promoting censorship by complying with this court order. It just goes to show how much Google values your privacy. They are nothing short of a joke!