Rapid Fire 01/20/06

Published January 20, 2006

* Holland's Panopticon
* France's nuclear threat
* Germany's spies busy in Iraq
* DoD apologizes for domestic spying
* Small-town spycams
* "How to foil search engine snoops"
* Metal Storm goes non-lethal
* Anonymous OS debuts
* Nice $312 million, five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract

(Big ups: JQP, RC)

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