Net Detective blog

Never since Vietnam, our US Army is staining to the breaking point to keep up with unsustainable demands. Gen. Colin Powell once declared the Army is “about broken.”
The Army is relaxing it’s admissions standards, allowing new recruits previously unfit to join. First the Army raised it’s max recruiting age from 35 to 40, then to […]

Private security guards poor pay and lack of training and background checks poses security risk. Private security guards who are guarding many critical high-security sites throughout the US are paid little more than minimum wage and have little or no terrorist training according to an AP investigation.
9-11 has transformed the nation’s force of “rent-a-cops” into […]

When being considered for hiring with a company, most people can expect to be subjected to a post-employment background check, but few companies run post-employment background checks on existing employees, (credit and criminal) including long-time employees who have worked for their company for a long time.
While a new employee may start work with a […]

Surprisingly, since 9-11, some of America’s most sensitive military bases, including Ft Bragg NC, and White Sands NM continue to outsource base security to private security guard firms.
This is raising much concern regarding the calibre and quality of private guards, both in the government and private sector. The question is, when is a job to […]

Back in the old days before the internet, if somebody wanted to stalk you, he would have physically track you down the old fashioned way. Today the internet has changed all of that.
To many people including myself, the internet is one of Mankind’s greatest inventions! Afterall it has opened many exciting new opportunities that never […]

Facing a serious recruiting shortage due to the ongoing War in Iraq, the US Army is recruiting convicted criminals.

Georgia data broker Choicepoint confessed to divulging the personal records of 162,000 people to Los Angeles identity thieves. The company claimed it too was a victim, although their sloppy procedures were responsible. A Nigerian later plead guilty in the case, after he found it ridiculously easy to steal the information. Choicepoint claimed they requested the […]

The Bush Administration has authorized thousands of wiretaps of US citizen’s phones without a court order

Federal regulations now require truckers who haul hazardous materials to undergo full fingerprint criminal records checks. These are drivers who haul everything from toxic waste to gasoline, propane, and home heating oil. The new Federal regulation under The Patriot Act is intended to prevent terrorists from getting ahold of trucks hauling hazardous cargo, they would […]

Your cell phone records are not as private as you would like to think