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Walt Crawford special Broadcast Flag edition “Cites & Insights”
March 25, 2004Cites & Insights, Volume 4, Number 5: April 2004 (PDF format, 272K). ÒThe Broadcast Flag proposed rulemaking is an end-run around CongressÕ apparent unwillingness to enact something as horrendous as CBDTPA. ÒWhile ineffective at solving any known problem, the Broadcast Flag would provide an opening for Big Media to insist on other ÒenforcementÓ measures that [...]
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Phil Agre’s RRE returns
March 25, 2004Red Rock Eater Digest – pointers, March 24, 2004 Phil Agre is associate professor of information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ten years ago, he started an email list called Red Rock Eater Digest Each mailing was a concise listing of links to article, reports, academic writings, and web sites concerned with [...]
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Black Box Voting. Bev Harris’s book and web site on e-voting
March 23, 2004BlackBoxVoting.org At this site you will find the complete text of the book Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century By Bev Harris with David Allen in PDF format, and an order form for the paper version. You’ll also find a large collection of articles about e-voting. These are newspaper articles, FEC reports, [...]
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CRS report on e-voting
March 23, 2004Election Reform and Electronic Voting Systems (DREs): Analysis of Security Issues November 4, 2003, Congressional Research Service RL32139 Eric A. Fischer, Senior Specialist in Science and Technology, Domestic Social Policy Division. CRS weighs in with this 40 page study of “direct recording electronic” (DRE) touchscreen voting machines. Their use is expected to increase substantially under [...]
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Bush Administration Surpressing Documents in Classification Frenzy
March 23, 2004OMB Watch — The Watcher March 22, 2004 Vol. 5, No. 6 The Bush administration is classifying documents at nearly twice the rate of the Clinton administration, according to statistics compiled by the Information Security Oversight Office, an arm of the National Archives and Records Administration.
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California voters turned away
March 22, 2004The Risks Digest Volume 23: Issue 27 “California voters turned away” Peter G. Neumann Mon, 15 Mar 2004. The Risks Digest continues to be an excellent source of authoritative information on the problems of e-voting. …in the 17 counties in which Diebold systems were used, none of the versions of those systems actually used was [...]
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World Wide Digital Divide
March 22, 2004For Most Africans, Internet Access Is Little More Than a Pipe Dream Chris Alden Posted: 2004-03-12 USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review More from the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
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Hack the Vote
March 22, 2004isen.blog David S. Isenberg notes that Vanity Fair issue of April 2004, p.158 includes an article called “Hack the Vote” by Michael Shnayerson about electronic voting. Vanity Fair describes the article on its web site: After FloridaÕs paper-ballot debacle in 2000, electronic voting machines were marketed as a foolproof solution. But with unexpected results cropping [...]
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Free as in Libraries
March 21, 2004The Free Lane on the Information Highway By Dalton Conley, OP-ED, Published: March 19, 2004 New York Times. Here is a wonderful idea for the next FCC (when it stops kowtowing to Big Broadcasting and starts remembering that the airwaves belong to the people) and an excellent parallel drawn between public libraries and public airwaves. [...]
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Propagation of Misinformation
March 19, 2004E-Epistemology and Misinformation by Peter G. Neumann, “Inside Risks” 155, Communications of the ACM 46, (5, May 2003). final, published, pdf version available to ACM subscribers. This article is worth re-reading. It touches on so many issues that are relevant to how people find, evaluate, and use information. Privacy, urban myths, Copyright restrictions and proprietary [...]