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To the editor: It's fascinating to read about former Seventh-day Adventist pastor Ryan Bell, who wants to challenge his faith by experiencing life without religious practices. ("Ex-Seventh-day Adventist pastor takes a yearlong timeout from God," Dec. 22)
It seems that many people want to cast the decision of whether to have faith as a proposition between a God who should take responsibility for all the unhappiness and suffering in the world and no God at all. I'm not sure that's a fair test for God to have to meet, and that may be what leads to a crisis of faith.
There's always a middle path that people with black-and-white views may see as unworthy of further contemplation. It is worthwhile to understand faith in less severe terms and just be open to the moments when you can see God working in your life.
I wish Bell all the best in his journey.
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To the editor: I applaud Bell for his courage to explore the possibility that the God he believed in does not exist.
I submit another outcome of Ryan's yearlong experiment: agnosticism. Who can say for certain that an omnipotent, omniscient God exists? I have seen no evidence to support a definitive belief in one. On the other hand, who can say with certainty that such a being does not exist?
It seems to me that the only tenable position is to say we honestly cannot know.
Religious people often believe one can lead a moral life only under the guidance of belief in a deity. I submit that morality is within the individual. I tend to think no God exists, but I am 100% comfortable living a moral, productive and altruistic life while saying I just do not know.
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Ukraine NATO Membership Bid: Ukrainian parliament expected to abandon non-aligned status
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MOSCOW: Russia said today that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was turning Ukraine into a "frontline of confrontation" and threatened to sever remaining ties with the Atlantic military alliance if Ukraine's hopes of joining it were realised.
The Kiev Parliament's renunciation of Ukraine's neutral status on Tuesday in pursuit of NATO membership has outraged Moscow and deepened the worst confrontation between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War.
"NATO countries pushed Kiev to this counterproductive decision, trying to turn Ukraine into a front line of confrontation with Russia," Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov told the Russian news agency Interfax.
It is likely to take years for Ukraine to meet the technical criteria for accession to the NATO and, even then, there is no certainty that the alliance is ready to take such a political hot potato. Yet Russia has made clear that it would see the NATO membership of such a strategic former Soviet republic with a long common border as a direct military threat.
NATO has already boosted its military presence in eastern Europe in 2014, saying it has evidence that Russia orchestrated and armed a pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine that followed the overthrow of a Kremlin-backed president in Kiev.
Moscow denies supporting the rebellion, and is currently trying, along with Kiev and the rebels, to renew efforts to find a political solution to the crisis in eastern Ukraine. A so-called "contact group" is expected to meet in Minsk today to try to reinforce a shaky ceasefire and de-escalate the conflict, in which more than 4,700 people have been killed.
A truce agreed in September has been regularly flouted by both sides, but violence has lessened significantly in December. The rebellion began shortly after Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in March.
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Russia will cut off cooperation with NATO if Ukraine joins the Western military alliance a move that will be practically impossible to repair,"the deputy defense minister warned Wednesday. Moscow has been outraged since Kiev announced its renunciation of neutral status Tuesday a possible step toward joining NATO.
"NATO countries pushed Kiev to this counterproductive decision, trying to turn Ukraine into a front line of confrontation with Russia," Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told the Russian news agency Interfax. "If this decision in the future takes on a military character [accession to NATO], then we will respond appropriately. Then there will be a complete severing of ties with NATO, which will be practically impossible to repair."
Kiev first announced its interest in joining NATO in August following months of fighting Russian-backed separatist rebels in the eastern provinces. Kiev has accused Russia of arming the separatists after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was sympathetic to Moscow, was overthrown. Russia has denied the claims.
On Tuesday, Ukraines parliament voted to drop the country's non-aligned status in a 303-8 vote and take steps to align itself formally with the West.
"This will lead to integration in the European and the Euro-Atlantic space," Ukraine Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimki said.
While NATO membership for Ukraine is years away and is no certainty Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev took to Facebook on Monday warning that in essence, an application for NATO membership will turn Ukraine into a potential military opponent for Russia.
A NATO official, who asked not to remain anonymous, told Reuters that the military alliance would review Ukraines candidacy if the country applies.
"Should Ukraine decide to apply for NATO membership, NATO will assess its readiness to join the alliance in the same way as with any candidate. This is an issue between NATO and the individual countries aspiring to membership," the official said.
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JERUSALEM The malware known as Regin linked to the National Security Agency as a tool for tapping mobile phone networks and infiltrating foreign computer systems now appears to have been developed as early as 15 years ago, making it among the first major pieces of invasive computer software built to enable government espionage.
The program was revealed last month in reports from security companies Kaspersky Lab and Symantec Corp. Soon thereafter, The Intercept published new leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden thatshed light on how programs such as Regin(pronounced Re-gen)were used to collect sensitive, technical information on more than 70 percent of the worlds cellular networks.
Between the Snowden documents and the disclosures from computer security professionals about Regin, for the first time researchers think theyve linked NSA wiretapping operations to the particular tool the agency used to accomplish it, caught in the act invading a foreign cellular network.
This is the first time weve seen it for real with our own eyes. For us it was pretty surprising, says Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky Labs Global Research and Analysis Team.
The NSAs vast surveillance practices stockpiling of phone records, recording text messages, listening in on conversations of foreign heads of state, tapping into global fiber optic communications -- began to be revealed a year and a half ago when the Snowden documents emerged.
Now, analysis of the Regin malware provides rare insight into how such extensive hacking and wiretapping was accomplished.
Regin is not just a worm or a virus, but a malwareplatform, which can host many different types of attacks. It was built for stealth and flexibility and has been found on computers around the world, serving many different purposes.
Both Kaspersky Lab and Symantec judged Regin to not only be the work of a nation-state, but also one of the most sophisticated, if not the most sophisticated, pieces of malware in existence. Both companies also specifically noted that Regin was used against telecommunications companies and infrastructure (in addition to a variety of other targets).
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The precise way that Regin enters a computer system is still unknown, but it may involve visiting spoofed versions of well-known websites or a backdoor through an application. According to Symantec, in one case log files showed that Regin got in through an unknown exploit in Yahoo! Instant Messenger.
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Cyber security experts are questioning whether US President Barack Obama can make good on his assurance that intelligence agencies aren't spying on "ordinary folks."
That promise is especially dubious, experts say, in instances where Americans are communicating with US citizens living abroad and other people overseas.
"It's very clear there are enormous loopholes," said Jonathan Mayer, a cyber security fellow at Stanford University's Centre for International Security and Co-operation, who is reverse engineering the NSA surveillance program to learn how much collection if taken to extremes is legally possible. "Their rules, combined with their capabilities, cut against the classical protections built into our legal system."
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) and the CIA are tasked with gathering foreign not domestic intelligence. Agency rules say they must have a "reasonable, articulated suspicion" about the people they target, and are required to sift through all the data they collect and eliminate any that might have been intercepted from an innocent American, on US soil or abroad.
This week the Obama Administration proposed that Congress overhaul the electronic surveillance program by having phone companies hold onto the call records as they do now.
But there remain a number of significant ambiguities that allow Americans' data to be swept up, saved and analysed, according to a series of disclosures from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks source Private Chelsea (previously known as Bradley) Manning and the US government itself:
- Analysts need to be just "51 per cent confident" that someone is not in the US, based on phone numbers, Internet Protocol addresses and email addresses, before they can target the person.
-The NSA is allowed to store encrypted communications, domestic or foreign, at least until analysts can decrypt it to find out whether it contains information relating to national security. With widely used services like Gmail and Facebook adding encryption, this could encompass a vast amount of domestic communications.
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Washington: The US National Security Agency has created a surveillance system that is recording all the phone calls in an undisclosed foreign country, allowing it to play back any conversation up to 30 days later, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
The newspaper cited unnamed sources with direct knowledge of the system as well as documents supplied by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who since last year has leaked extensive data revealing sweeping US spying activities.
The newspaper said that at the request of US officials, it was withholding details that could be used to identify the nation where the system is being used or others where it might be used in the future. The Post cited documents that envisioned similar US spying operations in other nations.
Mr Snowden again spoke from his Russian exile on Tuesday, addressing a conference audience in Vancouver through a screen and a remote-controlled robot.
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"There are absolutely more revelations to come," he said. "Some of the most important reporting to be done is yet to come."
The voice interception program is known as MYSTIC and started in 2009, with its "retrospective retrieval" capability, called RETRO, reaching full strength in 2011 against the first target nation.
A classified summary of the system said the collection effort was recording "every single" conversation nationwide in the first target country, storing billions of conversations in a 30-day rolling buffer that clears out the oldest calls as new ones are made.
A senior manager for the program likened it to a time machine that can replay voices from any phone call without the need to identify a person for spying in advance.
Current and former US officials quoted anonymously said large numbers of conversations involving Americans would be gathered using the system.
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