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Author Affiliations: University of Hawaii and Pacific Health Research Institute, Honolulu (Dr Curb); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Dr Prentice and Ms Rodabough) and University of Washington (Dr Prentice), Seattle, Wash; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex (Dr Bray); University of California at San Diego, La Jolla/Chula Vista (Dr Langer); Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill (Dr Van Horn); Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Dr Barnabei); University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno (Dr Bloch); Brown Medical School, Providence, RI (Dr Cyr); University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio (Dr Gass); Boulder Women's Care, Boulder, Colo (Dr Lepine); Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, Calif (Dr Sidney); MedStar Research Institute, Hyattsville, Md (Dr Uwaifo); and Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands (Dr Rosendaal).
Postmenopausal hormone therapy has been associated with a 2- to 3-fold increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VT) (including deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) in observational studies and secondary prevention clinical trials. Clinical trial data on the effects of estrogen alone on VT are limited.
The Women's Health Initiative estrogen trial enrolled 10 739 women aged 50 to 79 years without a uterus. Participants were randomly assigned to receive conjugated equine estrogen (0.625 mg/d) or placebo.
During a mean of 7.1 years, VT occurred in 111 women randomly assigned to receive estrogen (3.0 per 1000 person-years) and 86 randomly assigned to receive placebo (2.2 per 1000 person-years; hazard ratio, 1.32; 95% confidence interval, 0.99-1.75). Deep venous thrombosis was reported in 85 women randomly assigned to receive estrogen (2.3 per 1000 person-years) and 59 randomly assigned to receive placebo (1.5 per 1000 person-years; hazard ratio, 1.47; 95% confidence interval, 1.06-2.06). The VT risk was highest in the first 2 years. There were no significant interactions between estrogen use and age, body mass index, or most other VT risk factors. Comparison of Women's Health Initiative VT findings for estrogen and previous Women's Health Initiative findings for estrogen plus progestin showed that the hazard ratios for estrogen plus progestin were significantly higher than those for estrogen alone (P = .03), even after adjusting for VT risk factors.
An early increased VT risk is associated with use of estrogen, especially within the first 2 years, but this risk increase is less than that for estrogen plus progestin.
Venous thromboembolism (VT), including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a common condition, occurring in about 1 adult per 1000 person-years.1 Postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) and selective estrogen receptor modulators such as tamoxifen citrate and raloxifene hydrochloride have been associated with a 2- to 3-fold increased risk of VT,2,3 and HT is also reported as a risk factor for VT.4- 9
Risk factors for VT are distinct from those for arterial disease, with an important role for procoagulant changes (eg, thrombophilia and cancer) and immobilization, whereas classic risk factors (eg, diabetes mellitus and hypertension) have no effect.10 Study investigators report factor V Leiden G1691A with HT increases VT risk approximately 15-fold.11,12 The largest clinical trial on VT and HT is the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) report of combined oral conjugated equine estrogen (CEE) (0.625 mg/d) and medroxyprogesterone acetate (2.5 mg/d) (E+P).13,14 The WHI E+P trial included 16 608 women aged 50 to 79 years with a mean follow-up of 5.6 years. In this trial there was an increase in VT associated with HT.13
The only previously reported randomized controlled intervention trial of use of estrogen alone in women without a history of VT was the Estrogen Replacement and Atherosclerosis trial.15 In that study, 309 women with angiographically proved coronary heart disease were randomly assigned to estrogen, E+P, or placebo. The VT events were few and not significantly different between groups (P = .16). Another randomized trial of estrogen therapy after VT treatment was stopped because of a high incidence of recurrent VT in women treated with estrogen.16
The WHI CEE trial17 was designed to determine the incidence of a number of cardiovascular and oncological events, including VT, in postmenopausal women without a uterus who were randomized to receive CEE or placebo. The WHI CEE was terminated early because of an overall increase in risk compared with benefit, largely from an increased risk of stroke. We report the final adjudicated VT data from the WHI CEE trial and examine the risk of thrombosis as a function of subject characteristics, including genetic polymorphisms. We also compare the VT hazard ratio (HR) increases from the WHI CEE and E+P trials.
Details of the WHI design and methods are published elsewhere.18,19 Using a protocol and written informed consent forms approved by each site's institutional review committees, we recruited women aged 50 to 79 years. Participants (n = 10 739) were postmenopausal and without a uterus at baseline. A 3-month washout was required for postmenopausal hormone users. Exclusions primarily were related to medical conditions associated with shortened survival or safety. Women with DVT or PE history were not enrolled. Women were informed of potential VT risk by mail in July 1997 after the secondary cardiovascular prevention Heart Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study20 reported increased VT risk with E+P.
Women were randomly assigned in double-blind fashion to receive 0.625 mg of CEE (Premarin; Wyeth-Ayerst, Philadelphia, Pa) or placebo. At baseline, blood was drawn after a minimum 10-hour fast. Samples were shipped to a repository and stored at −70°C (McKesson Bioservices, Rockville, Md).
Participants were followed up for clinical events every 6 months and had annual in-clinic visits. Discharge summaries of hospital records were reviewed locally. Diagnoses of possible VT were reviewed by trained local physician adjudicators blinded to treatment assignment.19 The VT cases identified by local adjudicators were assessed subsequently by central physician adjudicators. Agreement between local and central adjudication was 97%. This report is based on centrally adjudicated diagnoses for VT events occurring by February 29, 2004.
Diagnosis of DVT required documentation of a treating physician's diagnosis (hospital discharge summary with a diagnosis of DVT or outpatient treatment) and positive results at Doppler or duplex ultrasonography, venography, plethysmography, or isotope scanning. Diagnosis of PE required documentation of a treating physician's diagnosis and positive results at ventilation-perfusion lung scanning, pulmonary angiography, or computed tomography or documentation of signs and symptoms suggestive of PE in the setting of documented DVT. Detailed reports were not always available; therefore, the treating physician's diagnosis often was accepted unless there were conflicting diagnoses or evidence to the contrary. Events were defined as procedure related if they occurred within 60 days after an invasive procedure.
A nested case-control study of biomarkers previously identified as potentially important in the relationship between E+P and VT, HT assignment, and risk of cardiovascular disease was conducted.13 Cases of VT occurring between randomization assignment and February 28, 2001, were included. The CEE component included 64 VT cases. Control subjects were selected by matching trial (CEE or E+P), age, randomization date, baseline cardiovascular disease, and follow-up time. Additional controls selected for cases of myocardial infarction and stroke, by using these same matching criteria, were included in the analyses (357 total controls). The DNA polymorphisms for factor V Leiden (n = 420), prothrombin G20210A (n = 420), prothrombin G19911A (n = 416), thermolabile variant of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (C677T) (n = 421), coagulation factor XIII Val34Leu (G100T) (n = 419), 4G/5G polymorphism of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (n = 415), and factor V HR2 (A4070G) (n = 417) were analyzed by means of standard restriction fragment length polymorphism methods as previously reported.13
Baseline risk factors were compared using χ2 or Fisher exact tests in women who did or did not develop VT. These comparisons are not considered confounding factors in the subsequent CEE vs placebo analyses because the randomized design avoids confounding by baseline characteristics. Risk factor distributions include only women with known values for each factor. The primary randomization group comparisons used time-to-event methods (eg, log-rank tests and Cox regression) based on intention-to-treat principles. For each outcome, the time-to-event was defined for cases of VT as the number of days from randomization to the first diagnosis after randomization, determined by means of central adjudication. For women who did not have a VT event, censoring time was defined as the time from randomization to the earliest of death, unavailable for follow-up, or February 29, 2004. Primary outcomes comparisons are presented as annualized rates and HRs with 95% nominal confidence intervals (CIs). Total VT is the predefined primary end point, with secondary analyses examining associations with DVT and PE separately and with procedure- and non–procedure-related VT events separately. The designation of procedure- or non–procedure-related events was not captured initially. Data are presented only for events with known status. Cox proportional hazards models were stratified according to age, prior VT, and randomization status in the dietary modification trial. The HRs were classified according to time because randomizations were calculated separately for fewer than 2, 2 to 5, and more than 5 years after randomization. Trends with time after randomization were examined by means of incorporating time according to randomization group interaction terms in the Cox models.
Interactions between baseline characteristics and treatment arm were assessed in Cox proportional hazards models that included risk factor and treatment assignment as main effects. Women with missing data for a covariate were excluded from analyses including that covariate. Logistic regression analyses were used to relate VT odds ratios to biomarker values and CEE randomization group in the case-control substudy, with all case-control matching variables included as regression variables. Polymorphisms were included by contrasting women who were homozygous for an allele to the remainder of the sample. Interactions of biomarker values with CEE in relation to VT odds ratios were examined by means of likelihood ratio tests for departure from a multiplicative odds ratio model.
For additional analyses that combine E+P and CEE data, we used Cox proportional hazards analyses that stratify according to trial (CEE or E+P) and age. These analyses, which allow incidence rates and the HR for HT to depend on VT risk factors, are used to test for differences between CEE and E+P HR in relation to VT.
Examination of baseline characteristics revealed that the distributions of potential VT risk factors were similar in the CEE and placebo groups.17 Almost one third of the women were aged 50 to 59 years, and 24.0% were aged 70 to 79 years. A little more than 75% were white, 15.0% were black, and 6.1% were Hispanic. Almost 80% were overweight (body mass index [BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters] >25), and more than 50% of those were obese (BMI ≥30). Statin use was reported by 7.6% and aspirin use by almost 19.5%. Nearly 2% of women had a history of VT.
After a mean follow-up of 7.1 years, 197 women developed VT: 144 with DVT, 91 with PE, and 38 with DVT and PE (some women had >1 anomaly). Fifty-five cases of VT were procedure related. Table 1 illustrates the baseline characteristics of women who developed VT compared with those who did not.
Venous thromboembolism occurred in 111 women (0.30% per year) in the CEE arm, compared with 86 women (0.22% per year) with placebo, with an HR of 1.32 (95% CI, 0.99-1.75) (Table 2). The HR for CEE is slightly greater (1.47; 95% CI, 1.06-2.06) for DVT and similar for PE (1.37; 95% CI, 0.90-2.07). Results are similar for non–procedure- and procedure-related VT. The HR for women with no prior VT was 1.34 (95% CI, 1.01-1.78) compared with an HR of 0.87 (95% CI, 0.14-5.28) for women with prior VT (data not shown); there was no significant interaction between prior VT and CEE (P = .67). Ten VT events in the CEE group and 8 in the placebo group were associated with cancer. The HRs for VT, DVT, and PE for women without cancer were 1.33 (95% CI, 0.98-1.79), 1.51 (95% CI, 1.06-2.15), and 1.30 (95% CI, 0.84-2.02), respectively (data not shown).
Older women had an absolute higher risk of VT, but the HR associated with CEE showed no increase according to age (P = .99) or for DVT (P = .93) or PE (P = .39) separately (Table 3). Similarly, the absolute incidence of VT is strongly related to baseline BMI (Table 4), but there is no suggestion of dependence of the HR for CEE on BMI for overall VT (P = .66), DVT (P = .88), or PE (P = .57) or for non–procedure- or procedure-related VT (data not shown). Results of additional analyses (data not shown) did not suggest a dependence of the HR for CEE on age and BMI when these factors were considered simultaneously.
There is evidence of higher CEE-related HRs among women reporting levels greater than median (5.25 metabolic activities per week) of physical activity (P = .05). This finding should be regarded as suggestive in view of the number of HR interactions considered in this analysis (Table 5). There is little indication that the HR for CEE depends on prior exogenous hormone use, prior cardiovascular disease history, estimated omega 3 fatty acid or fish consumption, hypertension treatment, or aspirin or statin use (Table 5).
The Figure shows cumulative hazard estimates for VT, DVT, and PE according to randomization group. Hazard rate increases in the CEE group occurred early in the follow-up. Table 6 demonstrates increases in DVT and overall VT in the CEE group during the first 2 years after randomization with modest increases beyond 2 years.
Cumulative hazards of venous thromboembolism (A), deep vein thrombosis (B), and pulmonary embolism (C) for conjugated equine estrogen (CEE) compared with those for placebo. CI indicates confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio.
Factor V Leiden G1691A mutation appears to be associated (P = .06) with VT risk, whereas other polymorphisms, with the possible exception of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (P = .08), are not (Table 7). The increased risk associated with CEE did not depend significantly (P = .70) on the factor V Leiden variant or on plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (P = .57). Table 8 shows the odds ratio as a function of CEE and various baseline blood lipid measures. Results show that the odds ratio associated with CEE is higher (P = .03) among women with relatively low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, implying a protective effect for high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
Data from the CEE and E+P trials were analyzed jointly to compare the magnitude of CEE and E+P effects on VT HRs. Table 9 shows the HRs for CEE and E+P while allowing the VT incidence rate and the HT-related HRs to depend on VT risk factors. The CEE HR is significantly lower than the E+P HR (P = .02). In further analyses (data not shown), we examined the ratio of the CEE to E+P HR as a function of years after randomization. The smaller HR for CEE was most evident between 2 and 5 years after randomization, especially for non–procedure-related VT.
Our results in healthy postmenopausal women without a uterus indicate increased risk of VT, including DVT and PE, among women treated with CEE compared with placebo. The relative increase in risk is significantly (P = .02) less than that shown in the WHI E+P trial.13 The WHI CEE and E+P trial results are consistent with results from other studies of postmenopausal HT, as well as from studies of selective estrogen receptor modulators.12,21- 23
Investigators in previous studies were inconsistent concerning the duration of VT risk increase among HT users.7,8,16,20 In WHI, the increased risk of VT with CEE was highest in the first 2 years of therapy. In a meta-analysis including 6 case-control studies of HT reporting first-year use,24 the pooled relative risk for a VT event was 3.49 in the first year and 1.91 thereafter. Similarly, in the WHI E+P study, the greatest risk of VT with HT was in the first year and remained increased for at least 5 years after randomization.13,14
There was little evidence of an effect of CEE on procedure-related VT, as was the case for the WHI E+P trial.13 The HRs for VT, DVT, and PE in women who developed cancer were similar to those in women who did not develop cancer, suggesting that VT increase was not attributable to differential cancer rates.
The WHI and other observational study investigators report an increased risk of VT with increasing age and obesity.10,25,26 It is likely that the higher rate of VT in the CEE placebo group than in the E+P placebo group is attributable to the latter having a higher average age and BMI. However, no synergy was observed between these risk factors and CEE. Similar to previous findings with oral contraceptives,27 there does not seem to be an increased risk of VT in former HT users. In observational studies, VT risk increased for oral estrogen and oral estrogen combined with progestin.8,28 However, authors of a recent report indicated that users of esterified estrogens had a lower VT risk than did CEE users and that such risk did not differ from that in nonusers.29
Our results indicate that use of CEE or E+P among women with prior VT should be discouraged in the absence of ongoing anticoagulation therapy. Although there were only 171 women with previous VT, our observation of high risk of recurrence concurs with the WHI E+P trial13 and the Estrogen in Venous Thromboembolism Trial30 findings (1.3-year incidence of VT of 10.7% with estradiol plus norethisterone acetate compared with 2.3% with placebo30).
Results from neither WHI trial (CEE or E+P) indicate the use of aspirin or statins to prevent VT among women receiving HT. However, in the Heart Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study20 of women with coronary disease, aspirin and statin use appeared to attenuate the risk of VT associated with E+P. The Pulmonary Embolism Prevention trial31 results also indicate attenuation with aspirin use.
In a previous study, the absolute risk of VT among women taking CEE with heterozygous factor V Leiden was estimated as 2.9% per year among families affected by factor V Leiden32 and 1.5% per year among women with coronary disease.11 Investigators in a previous case-control study reported an interaction between the risk associated with factor V Leiden and HT.12 In WHI CEE, there appeared to be an association of factor V Leiden to overall risk of VT, but there did not appear to be a synergistic interaction with CEE, which is similar to findings from the WHI E+P trial.13 Prothrombin 20210A had a nonsignificant trend toward a positive association with VT risk, but the analysis may have been underpowered to show a significant difference.
The strengths of our study include the randomized double-blind design and high ascertainment of outcome events in a large group of postmenopausal women without a uterus. The baseline characteristics of these women are similar to those of other women who might consider HT. The analysis was limited by power considerations for subgroup analyses, particularly those related to the nested case-control component that included only 64 VT cases. However, apart from factor V Leiden, given the observed weak or absent associations of the genetic disorders with VT, it is unlikely that a clinically relevant interaction of these genetic factors with CEE exists. Nonadherence to study medications was observed,17 which presumably attenuates the observed associations of CEE with VT. Therefore, our risk estimates are likely underestimates. Definitions of VT may have differed slightly between centers, but because all adjudicators were blinded to study group, this should not have affected the findings. Finally, our results apply only to CEE. Results of one report indicated that users of esterified estrogens had lower VT risk than CEE users had, and that such risk did not differ from risk in nonusers,29 but results from another report suggested that the risk of VT with HT does not differ according to formulation.12
We observed a significantly lower HR for CEE than for E+P in the WHI, even after adjusting for differences in the populations to the extent possible. Although the results of these analyses suggest that the effect of CEE on VT risk may be greater among physically active women and women with relatively low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, this finding may be attributable to chance given the number of interactions examined. However, the findings merit further study in other contexts.
Our data suggest that although the absolute incidence is relatively low, the use of CEE increases the relative risk of VT in postmenopausal women without a uterus. Women with appropriate indications, such as short-term treatment of severe menopausal symptoms, should use CEE only after careful consideration of the relative risks and benefits, especially if the women have other risk factors for VT, including previous VT, older age, obesity, and perhaps factor V Leiden.
Correspondence: J. David Curb, MD, University of Hawaii and Pacific Health Research Institute, 846 S Hotel St, Suite 301, Honolulu, HI 96813.
Accepted for Publication: September 18, 2005.
Funding/Support: The Netherlands Heart Foundation (grant NHF 2001.029) provided funding for genetic analyses.
Financial Disclosure: Dr Gass has received recent research grants and contracts and/or honoraria or consultation fees from Sanofi Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Organon, Proctor & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Roche, and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. Dr Gass is on the advisory board of Eli Lilly, Merck, and Proctor & Gamble Pharmaceuticals.
Acknowledgment: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Bethesda, Md) funds the WHI program. We acknowledge the dedicated efforts of investigators and staff at the WHI clinical centers, WHI Clinical Coordinating Center, and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute program office. Wyeth-Ayerst Research (Philadelphia, Pa) provided active and placebo medications.
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Roughly 2,500 students walked off the stage this weekend with a degree from Michigan State University.
Jeremy Boyd wasn't among them. He'll be graduating about a year from now. But he's already thinking about a job.
"I'm looking for IT management, information technology management," Boyd said Tuesday.
He's just the kind of graduate the state wants to hold on to, but Boyd says he'll probably look elsewhere.
"The job creation here is not where most people feel it should be," he said.
And those out-of-state offers can be tempting.
"Many of them offer packages that are hard to turn down," said Kelley Bishop, executive director of career services at Michigan State University.
"As we begin to rebuild the job market, at least for our students, it has been on corporations that are coming in from elsewhere to tap the talent we've got," he said.
But with 90 percent of Michigan State students coming from withinthe state, Bishop says many students feel a loyalty to Michigan.
He says seeing out-of-state companies at a job fair doesn't always mean out-of-state jobs.
"A suprising number of the companies that may not be based in Michigan are offering jobs that are based in Michigan," Bishop said.
And there are some careers that should have openings for recent MSU grads despite all the talk about the state of Michigan's economy.
"The health care field is still relatively strong. You're seeing another surge in computer science sorts of areas," Bishop said.
Sales and marketing jobs are also growing in Michigan. Bishop says jobs in those two fields now account for 50 percent of the jobs his office comes across.
It all adds up to jobs in Michigan for grads who make an effort to get connected in their chosen fields, he says.
Jeremy Boyd says he's not taking any chances. He's likely headed for graduate school.


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It isn't hard to imagine the intended audience for Last Ounce of Courage. The old-fashioned melodrama about a small-town mayor's fight to put the Christ back in Christmas — and to drag the town's mothballed angel ornaments back into the public square — plays squarely to folks who feel that Christians today are persecuted.
As its hero states, with little evidence other than a TV clip of Bill O'Reilly, "For a long time, people have been trying to pass laws to get rid of Christmas altogether." The Grinch in this case is a cigar-smoking heavy from an ACLU-like, Washington-based advocacy group, played with lip-curling malevolence by Fred Williamson.
Heading a cast of mostly unknowns, whose level of talent varies widely, star (and Azle resident) Marshall R. Teague will win no acting awards for his performance as Bob Revere, an American veteran and patriot pushed to the limit by political correctness. The sheer volume of what I like to call "eyebrow acting" — in which thespian intensity is directly proportional to the angle and depth of one's forehead furrows — is staggering.
The strenuous ax-grinding of the polemical script by Darrel Campbell (who co-directed with producer Kevin McAfee) will also win few converts to the cause. Simply put, Last Ounce argues that the American people are slowly but surely being robbed of our freedoms by Big Government. Though no doubt earnest, that message is hampered by heavy-handedness. It feels like a political attack ad created by a group of passionate but unpolished novices.
Last Ounce, which has been endorsed by North Texas action star Chuck Norris, is a workmanlike, if treacly and overblown, piece of propaganda. Its effectiveness depends entirely on the degree to which you already believe its talking points.
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IDF Lt. Col. Shaul Eisner, who was filmed over the weekend hitting a Danish protester with his rifle butt in the Jordan Valley, personally responded to allegations against him on Tuesday.
Eisner, who was suspended from duties following the incident, said that "it could have been a professional mistake to use a weapon in front of the cameras," he told Channel 10. The televised report also showed a document indicating he had broken his finger.
Video footage posted on YouTube showed Eisner, deputy commander of the IDF's Jordan Valley brigade, striking Danish activist Andreas Ias in the face with an M-16 rifle during a cycle rally near Jericho in the West Bank.
"It was a two minute confrontation," he said," so yes, it's true that some pictures look bad, but I used a weapon… in a cold manner, as a stick. I didn't kill anyone and I did not put anyone's life in danger." He added that he believes that thanks to his actions the protesters called off the demonstration.
Ias, the Danish activist that was hit in the face, said on Monday that the officer's claim that the activists were violent is a fabrication. Also on Monday, the Danish ambassador asked Israel to explain the officer's assault on Ias.
"These stories do not interest the Chief of Staff or my Front Commander," Eisner added on Tuesday. He admitted there are "a few questions," yet maintained that he "does not accept this as a moral failure in any way." "We know the history of these anarchists," he said, "they came with sticks and broke my hand – but no one will tell or film that."
"There is a question here of what is more important – to carry out the mission or to look good (in pictures). I claim the mission is important enough," Eisner said. He added: "What if they would film IDF soldiers backing down from an angry crowd? That sounds good? What, I'd let them block roads? I'd let them endanger lives?"
President Shimon Peres on Monday said he was "shocked" by the incident, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday condemned the incident, which was seen in a film posted on YouTube earlier Sunday.
"Such behavior does not characterize IDF soldiers and officers and has no place in the Israel Defense Forces and in the State of Israel," Netanyahu said.
On Tuesday, a few dozen demonstrators headed by National Union MK Michael Ben Ari gathered in front of the Kirya Defense Ministry complex to show support for Eisner. They called on the IDF to award him a medal for his conduct.
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On April 3, Garth Wright reported his discovery of a Facebook security loophole on his iPhone. The security problem centers on the .plist file used by apps to store settings. Grath Wright discovered that the iPhone Facebook app not only stores the Facebook token (used by apps to access your Facebook account) in the .plist file, but also stores the OAuth key and secret key in plain text. Simply copying the .plist file to another phone, allowed the second phone to access his Facebook account. To make matters worse, the key was set to expire in the year 4001. This is a serious programming error on the part of Facebook, as there is a secure method for storing these keys.
On April 6, Tuaw reported that the same programming error existed in iOS apps for Dropbox, and LinkedIn. Moreover, the same error existed in the Android apps for Facebook, and LinkedIn, but not Dropbox. Comments show that Tumblr and Vimeo had the same problem. The security network was now in full swing on checking apps for unencrypted access information in the .plist file. Scoopz reported that the same information could be retrieved from the iOS backup files.
The initial response from Facebook was that this only effected "jail broken" iPhones, or rooted Android devices. In his article, Garth Wright provided a proof-of-concept showing that this is not true. While he initially discovered the problem using iExplorer, the same files could be found by tethering the device to a PC, while charging the phone. My tests show that the same information is available through Bluetooth or Wi-Fi tethering. Since the iPhone does not have an SD card, this issue was never mentioned in the reports. For Android devices, some apps install to the SD card, which extends the security loophole to simply putting the SD card into a PC.
For most phone users, there is an illusion of security. The average user only sees the graphical interface, and sees only a limited view of the underlying file system. When you give an app permission to access your Facebook account, the app stores the information that it retrieves from Facebook. The more permission granted to the app, the more information stored by the app. If an unauthorized person gets access to your phone they can steal your identity, without your knowledge.
The good news is that this is not an easy security hole to exploit. Furthermore, protecting your phone from unauthorized exploit is not hard. Steps 4, 5, and 6 in the article "Protecting your personal data when you lose your cellphone in Costa Rica" describes the basic steps that you should take. In addition, you should do the following:
- When you are not using Bluetooth, you should disable it. You should not enable the Bluetooth setting for "Discoverable." Normally, the Android device pairs to a remote device, such as a headset, or keyboard. In this scenario, your mobile devices discovers the remote device. The only time you need to make your mobile device "Discoverable," is when you are pairing to another mobile device or PC. When your mobile device is "Discoverable," you are advertising your mobile device to every Bluetooth device searching for a connection.
- When using W-Fi Tethering, use an application such as AirDroid, or WiFi File Transfer. With WiFi File Transfer, you should enable the password setting.
- When your phone battery is running low, be careful about using a stranger's PC to charge your phone via the USB cable. During the time your phone is charging, your data is accessible from the PC.
- Avoid storing apps that require password authentication on the SD card. Be especially aware of apps that connect to Facebook, as there are still apps that incorrectly store Facebook tokens in the .plist file.
- If you are using an app to backup the data on your phone, you should make sure that the backup file is encrypted.
- Should someone steal your phone, immediately take the actions mentioned in "Recovering Lost Mobile Devices in Costa Rica" to secure the phone, and see if you can find the phone. If you cannot recover your phone, then you need to report the stolen phone, according to the instructions in "Reporting Stolen Phones in Costa Rica: SUTEL Blacklist." Black listing a phone does not protect against identity theft. Black listing only makes the phone non-useable, by another party. Only you can prevent identity theft.
Since the .plist security hole was first reported, there has been a flurry of updates for social networking applications. The one exception is the Facebook app. So far, Facebook does not see this as a serious threat. This does not mean that you need to stop using the Facebook app. By following the steps outlined in this article, you can protect your phone from identity theft.


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Everyone here remembers the Americans.
They came with their blueprints, their engineering know-how and their money. By the time they left in the early 1970s, they had helped build a world-class dam that kept parts of Pakistan dry this month while vast stretches of the country drowned.
"This dam gives great benefit to the nation, and if not for the Americans it would never have been constructed," said Syed Naimat Shah, a local contractor.
But Shah hasn't seen any new assistance from the Americans in decades, and apparently many Pakistanis haven't, either. The U.S. government has provided about $18 billion in civilian and military aid to Pakistan since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks made this country America's most essential, and vexing, ally. Yet according to a Pew Research Center survey released last month, half of Pakistanis believe the United States gives little to no assistance here.
For Obama administration officials, that's a source of deep anxiety -- and frustration. Pakistan is at the center of U.S. hopes to turn around the flagging Afghan war, but persistent anti-American feelings limit the extent of Pakistani cooperation. On her visit to Pakistan last month, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton mused that Americans must wonder "why we're sending money to a country that doesn't want it."
Pakistanis insist they are not ungrateful. They just don't see any tangible impact from the massive sums the United States spends. Unlike assistance from decades ago, the money from the post-Sept. 11 era, Pakistanis say, tends to vanish without a trace.
"Everyone here hates the American government," said Shah, a spirited 71-year-old with a stark white beard and a sharp tongue. "I haven't seen a penny of this U.S. assistance."
Analysts say there are many reasons: poor coordination with the Pakistani government, a lack of understanding of Pakistan's needs and a reluctance to produce iconic projects, lest they become targets for terrorists.
"American assistance is always of a nature that is not seen or felt," said Tariq Fatemi, a former Pakistani ambassador to the United States. "How many dams were built? How many highways? Can you touch anything that was built with U.S. assistance?"
U.S. officials say aid money is making a positive impact, if not always a widely noticed one. Since Sept. 11, Pakistan has ranked among the top five recipients of U.S. civilian and military aid, in a group with Israel, Egypt, Afghanistan and Iraq. But they acknowledge the overall criticism and say they are fundamentally changing the way they spend taxpayer dollars here.
The $7.5 billion Kerry-Lugar civilian aid package, passed by Congress late last year, is providing the first big test. Unlike in the past, the money will be routed directly through Pakistani agencies and institutions, and officials say the results will be far more visible.
But already, there have been delays that could keep the money from making an impact anytime soon.
"We're having trouble moving this money," said Robert J. Wilson, the USAID mission director here. "It's not easy to change the approach."
The Kerry-Lugar funds, which will be spread over five years, were intended to help erase the widespread perception that the United States cares only about supporting Pakistan's military.
Indeed, most U.S. assistance over the past nine years has paid for night-vision goggles, F-16 fighter jets, unmanned surveillance planes and other tools that help the army battle the Taliban, but has done little to convince Pakistanis that the United States cares about their well-being.
Still, the United States will have spent nearly $5 billion in civilian assistance by the end of the year, and that money is supposed to buy goodwill.
By almost all accounts, it hasn't. Although the United States has received praise here for its speedy response to the summer's catastrophic floods, Pakistanis remain suspicious of American motives. In the Pew poll, nearly six in 10 Pakistanis described the United States as an enemy; only one in 10 called it a partner.
Javed Ashraf Qazi, Pakistan's former education minister and onetime top spy, thinks he knows the reason.
When Qazi was appointed education minister in 2004 after retiring from the military, he expected that U.S. assistance would help him raise standards. There was much to do: Pakistan's public schools are in deplorable condition, with more than half lacking electricity and teachers earning as little as $50 a month.
But Qazi said he soon discovered that the United States did not even coordinate its programs with the education ministry. Most of the money seemed to go to U.S. consultants "who would carry out a study for something or other that we did not need."
One program was geared toward "setting up democratic schools in Pakistan," he said. "I was very curious to know what the hell is a democratic school."
Another, he said, involved spending millions to send Pakistani teachers to Washington for months of training. Qazi wondered why the United States had not just paid for training in Pakistan, which could have had many times the impact.
Invited to Washington himself, Qazi said he finally lost his patience at a meeting in a State Department office once used by Gen. George C. Marshall, architect of Europe's reconstruction.
"I said, 'You do the opposite of what Marshall did. You don't ask us what we want to do. You tell us what you want to do,' " he said.
The complaint is a familiar one here. A program to train female health workers, for instance, was duplicating the work of a similar Pakistani government program. A recently announced plan to put solar panels on the roofs of the elite and private Beaconhouse school system, meanwhile, has been widely derided as out of touch when many public schools lack even roofs.
Pakistani analysts say a system that relies largely on Beltway contractors to devise the plans and get the work done has yielded few results. Wilson, the USAID director, said his agency is transitioning away from that system and toward the Pakistanis themselves.
But doing so poses its own set of challenges. Pakistan's government is rated among the most corrupt in the world, and the United States has a lengthy process for certifying the accountability of its partners. As a result, very little of the Kerry-Lugar money has hit the ground nearly a year after the bill's passage.
When it does, Pakistani development officials worry that it will be spent without regard for the results, or for the limitations in Pakistan's capacity to absorb the funds.
"When the money comes in, there's a lot of pressure to spend it," said Mehnaz Aziz, chief executive of the Children's Global Network, a nongovernmental organization that has had small contracts with USAID. "I would never want to be in a position to spend $100 million in Pakistan."
All that money does not necessarily mean high-profile projects. Because anything in Pakistan that's associated with America is vulnerable to attack, the United States has shied away from projects that could make for alluring targets.
Qazi, the former education minister and spymaster, said the threat is overstated. He said that if the United States set up a technical training institute, no one would dare attack it. "Call it the American School of Technology. People are running to the U.S. for good technical education. So set it up over here," he said.
U.S. officials are not convinced. But they say the incoming money will have a tangible impact. Among the projects slated to begin is one in Tarbela, where American engineers worked decades ago with a consortium of international and Pakistani partners to build the dam.
For $16 million, USAID plans to upgrade the dam's turbines, which produce hydropower. The work is expected to significantly cut Pakistan's chronic energy deficit.
Word has begun to spread in Tarbela that the Americans are coming back, and former mayor Firdous Khan said he would welcome them.
He said he admired the American engineers who helped build the dam for their ability to get things done without delay, and without demanding a bribe.
But decades later, surveying his town's potholed streets, its archaic sewer system and its vast population of unemployed young men, Khan's mind turns to regret: "I just wish they had stayed."
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Goddamn worthless Pakis. They've taken billions in aid and then aided the Taliban. Who, in turn, go ahead an launch attacks into Afghanistan.
Then, they fire on US helos crossing the border and returning fire and then complain when the helos shoot back and kill their soldiers.
What the hell to they think is going to happen?
They've done nothing to alleviate rural poverty or eliminated feudalism in the countryside.
Now, they've shut down our supply line to Afghanistan.
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Evidently you can't stop the talibangs but you think you could stop Americas military? Keep deluding yourself. Iraq took a few weeks. Paki maybe a few months.
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"Everyone here hates the American government," said Shah, a spirited 71-year-old with a stark white beard and a sharp tongue. "I haven't seen a penny of this U.S. assistance."
Analysts say there are many reasons: poor coordination with the Pakistani government, a lack of understanding of Pakistan's needs and a reluctance to produce iconic projects, lest they become targets for terrorists."
So pretty much translated it means that money for aid is filling up someone' More..
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Thats no surprise, President "Mr 10 percent" Zardari still has 6.4 billion dollars in his pocket from the Kashmiri earthquake in 2005 that he has failed to distribute. His excuse was that "it was needed elsewhere". While he sits in his presidential palace in luxury, 2 miles down the road lay villages still in tatters that have never seen a penny. I've said it before and I'll say again, I would rather shit in my own hand than donate anything to Pakistan.
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Give a man a fish and he`ll ALWAYS be back for more, basic greed will make sure the guys family (and of course himself) is fed first, teach a man to fish and he`ll do it himself and hopefully teach others, but always remember, if the man you are teaching how to fish doesnt have any comprehension of what is ahead of him, whats the point?.
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EQUALS, business as usual. Too bad the cave dwellers STILL don't get it......
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this is the problem with giving developing and 3rd world countries money. Its like giving an alcoholic money for food, but you know they're just going to spend it on booze.
Instead of sending them money, we need to just send the resourses (Lumber, Food, Water, educational material, Ect.), that way they cant use it on shit they dont need.
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In related news the Pakistani News Tribune just released a new poll showing that only 48% of Pakistanis support homicide bombing of Pakistanis by Pakistanis in Pakistan. This is down from 51% just six months ago. The Prime Minister said this was great news and showed the world "we are making progress."
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The obvious way to enable citizens of third world countries and their politicians to fully appreciate western aid is to pull it for a few years.
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@fr33thinker like you have been giving us aid since the foundation of pakistan. Pakistan use to give aid to others at one point in history.
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Maybe someday The United States will fucking learn
that it's better to just wipe these fuckers off of
the map early on,then you don't have to fuck with
them later.Cheers.
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They act like The U.S. owes them the money! Doomed to fail is all I can think of.
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@hughmac7 yes americans owes us money since its their war in afghansitan brought pakistan to its knees. We are buried under the debt to fight terrorism which resulted from american invasion of afghanistan and now for the first time in history we are using our soldiers to protect the western borders of pakistan. Its your fault and as respected people you have to pay for the damages as well which resulted from your actions.
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Pakistan is our enemy, if those motherfuckers did not have nukes we would have kicked their asses, they supply the Taliban and they are pussys since all the northern region is owned by militants
fuck the pakis
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Hey Pakistan
Go fuck yourself!!!
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all aid should be linked to their nuclear arsenal, they should be made to sell their weapons in exchange for any help
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Does ANYONE have the UNREDACTED Pakistani Execution Video that was shown/broke on CNN this afternoon? PLEASE if someone has it POST IT. Do a search for "Pakistan Execution Video" on Google and you'll see it at the TOP of the page but as of yet no FULL and UNREDACTED video yet. Shows about 7 blindfolded teenagers being shot with MACHINE GUN FIRE at close range by Pakistani Mil. Almost as incendeary as Koran burning video.
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lib msm won't show that unless it is nato doing the killing
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The only good will I care about is from those who are victims of terrorism/islam.
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Buying goods while bombing their country isn't really helping.
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Understand what? Your people are being played by your leadership? Your government plays BOTH sides against it's citizens? Your people hate the west but embrace radical islamo-facist? The majority in your country practices a backward death cult? Your government has been "dragging" it's feet on this issue for DECADES? Your citizens don't appreciate the BILLIONS of dollars pumped into your country? Your government has NO intention nor ever did have any intention of fighting these scum? I More..
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You can see the complaint, it falls in line with the Shock Doctrine, contracts going to US teaching companies rather than Pakistanis ones, Democractic schools etc. Using disaster/aid as a business venture...
However you can bet if they feed it through the Pakistani agencies, the corruption will kick in.
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I have one of those chairs too!
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I love everything about this thing. It's jewelery, it's a bug, and it's got an LED. What's not to like?! While this isn't the first insect on Thingiverse, it is easily the shiniest. It's a four-part print – bracelet, two wings, and body that are assembled with hot glue. I rather like the contrast in textures created by the different build orientation of the four printed pieces.
As with any multi-part print, I wonder whether this design could be modified to print all of the parts in a single plate and assembled without tools or glue. Given that the body is printed upright (Probably to accommodate the cavity for the LED, battery, and leads) , I'm fairly confident all of the parts could be arranged to be printed as a single STL file.
Neurothing mentions his plans to sell these at the upcoming Maker Faire in New York. Just imagine – if this design could be assembled without additional tools or glue, nuerothing could print them before your very eyes, peel the raft off the build platform, drop the parts into a bag with the LED and battery, and send you on your way. The production of the thing could become part of the sales experience, rather than just a precursor to the transaction.
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Feeling discouraged by the nasty partisan attacks of the presidential campaign? Overwhelmed and exhausted by politics in general? An antidote awaits in the form of Callie Shell's photo essays.
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I met Ann this summer at the SCBWI Summer Conference. We started chatting and I really liked her, even before it clicked that she was the fabulous writer that my friend Jolie had been telling us about. I loved Also Known as Harper, and it's always great to know that authors are just as lovely as their books.
WT: Tell us about your novel, Also Known as Harper.
AHL: Harper Lee Morgan is an aspiring poet, which isn't surprising, seeing as how she's named after her mama's favorite writer, Harper Lee. And life is giving her a lot to write about just now. Daddy up and walked out, leaving them broke. Then Harper's family gets evicted.
With Mama scrambling to find work, Harper has to skip school to care for her little brother, Hemingway. Their lives have been turned upside down, which Harper could just about handle—if it wasn't for the writing contest at school. She wants nothing more than to get up on that stage and read her poems out loud . . .it is about perseverance, with some hope and humor mixed in.
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AHL: I volunteer at my local soup kitchen with my family. Harper isn't based on any one child in the meal center, but more on a feeling I got when I saw the children standing there in line with their parents. I wondered what their lives might actually be like.
I'd love to say, my road to publication, was smooth, without any forks, but I've been writing stories since I was about four years old and I have a whole room full of rejection letters! I just kept writing and trying to make my manuscripts the best they could be. I joined SCBWI and tried to listen carefully to comments made in manuscript critiques and workshops. After a while, I started to get some "good" rejection letters with personal notes jotted on them. A couple of years ago, I read an interview with an agent that really caught my eye. I had just finished the manuscript of ALSO KNOWN AS HARPER, and I sent him a couple of chapters. He made some suggestions and when I did some revisions and sent it back to him, he offered to represent me.
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AHL: Hmmm…that's a difficult question! The idea stayed the same, for the most part, but I'm very lucky to have a very hands-on agent and a wonderful editor. They are both incredibly good at coaxing more out of me!
WT: Why was it important for you for Harper to write poetry?
AHL: I think it is easy for a child in a situation like Harper's to feel invisible. Writing poetry was a way for Harper to feel "heard" and worthwhile.
WT: You deal with serious themes of homelessness, alcoholism, abandonment- how have readers responded?
AHL: I am a teacher and I think the most difficult response for me to take came from a student who was in a temporary housing facility. One of the other teachers bought her a copy of ALSO KNOWN AS HARPER. The little girl came into my classroom to ask me to sign the book and said, "Harper's life is my life." I had to turn away for a second and pretend like I was busy with something on my computer, because I didn't want her to see me cry! She was standing there with such a strong, wise look. It was hard to see that in her eyes.
WT: What have you done for promotion- online and/or in-person?
AHL: I have really enjoyed doing blog interviews and bookstore and school visits. A few weeks ago, I went to the library in Auburn, Washington, where I got my first library card. I thought I was going to talk to a teen writing group, but a whole bunch of other people started walking in: my first grade teacher, my third grade teacher, the principal of my elementary school, my middle school English teacher….it was pretty overwhelming!
WT: That's so cool! What are you working on now?
AHL: I have another middle-grade novel coming out (also with Henry Holt/Macmillan) next year. It is called SEARCHING FOR EZEKIEL and is about two young girls, dealing with a mother who I hope will bring out conflicting emotions in the reader…
WT: What do you like to do when you're not writing?
AHL: I LOVE to read. I always have! I also like to run and do karate. My fourteen-year-old daughter and I just took our second degree black belt tests together!
WT: How do you stay in touch with the writing community (e.g. critique group, SCBWI, social media, etc.)?
AHL: I love SCBWI; their conferences and workshops have been invaluable to me. I am a member of two critique groups, and I don't know what I'd do without them! One of the critique groups has three other members and we have been together for over six years. I also am on Facebook, I just joined Twitter and I have a blog (www.annhaywoodleal.blogspot.com).
WT: What have you enjoyed reading recently?
I loved THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett and just finished CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins.
Thanks, Ann!