• Voting standards do not address current technology

    October 30, 2004

    Stamp of reproval for e-voting systems.
    By Robert Lemos
    CNET News.com,
    October 28, 2004.

    As U.S. voters prepare to head to the polls Tuesday, weak and outdated federal voting standards have emerged as a major cause of e-voting security concerns. Over the years, state election officials have approved purchases of thousands of e-voting machines, relying on their compliance with [...]

  • Electronic Voting addressed at American Institute of Physics

    October 30, 2004

    Voting machines remain unsecured, expert warns.
    By Chappell Brown
    EE Times,
    October 28, 2004.

    With the election only a few days away, news of the insecurity of electronic voting continues to come out
    with alarming consistency.
    A government study of voting machine security issues was cancelled because the conclusions by the panel of computer scientists were so negative.

    Computer experts are questioning [...]

  • National Academies has RSS feed

    October 29, 2004

    National Academies’ RSS News Feed

    Copy this to your RSS reader:
    http://www.nap.edu/rss/na.xml

    The National Academies RSS feed provides daily access to news releases, publication announcements and public statements.
    The National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.

  • More on blocking access to websites

    October 28, 2004

    Expats blocked from official Bush website
    27 October 2004.

    This story points out that “American expats are unable to visit the official website of US President George W. Bush.”
    It notes a similar block on an official government web site:

    The block follows a similar ban on some overseas visitors to a US government-run expat voting information site.
    In October [...]

  • Bush re-election website blocked overseas

    October 28, 2004

    BBC NEWS | Technology | Attack prompts Bush website block

    While not an official government web site, this seems all too consistent with current administration information policies. Interestingly, the Bush campaign is able to do this by making use of the exact same service that GPO has just announce plans to use: Akamai EdgeScape.

    The [...]

  • Audio goes missing from whitehouse.gov

    October 27, 2004

    Those White House Links to Nothing,
    by Helen Dewar and Brian Faler.
    Washington Post, October 25, 2004 Monday
    Final Edition.A Section; A06.

    The list of names of countries supporting the U.S.-led military action in Iraq has been removed from the White House Web site. Blogger Brad Friedman, who
    noticed the disappearance, believes this is part of a widespread “scrubbing” of [...]

  • FCC commish Copps takes on media consolidation

    October 26, 2004

    Michael Copps: An FCC Commissioner taking on Big Media
    Read on to learn more about what FCC Commissioner Michael Copps is doing about media consolidation. The quote below just makes one want to *sigh*!

    Indeed, Copps says his town hall meetings were mostly ignored by news media, including cities where they took place. At a hearing [...]

  • Senator Levin releases report on pre-war intelligence

    October 22, 2004

    Senator Carl Levin Releases Report on Pre-War Intelligence
    Levin’s report (in PDF) is a page turner. It “focuses on 1) the establishment of a non-Intelligence Community source of intelligence analysis in the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, and 2) the extent to which policy makers utilized that alternative source rather [...]

  • Reality of Bush/Kerry supporters

    October 22, 2004

    “Separate Reality of Bush/Kerry Supporters (pdf)
    This new report out yesterday from the Program on International Policy Studies (PIPA) shows that Bush and Kerry supporters live in totally different universes where Bush supporters believe it is a fact that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass estruction; Kerry supporters don’t. Bush supporters believe Saddam was supporting [...]

  • NSA sues CIA to get key Iraq doc

    October 21, 2004

    Archive Sues CIA for Speedy Review of Key Iraq Document
    The National Security Archive today filed suit against the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”) seeking the expedited processing and release under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) of the 2004 Iraq National Intelligence Estimate (“NIE). As the New York Times reported on September 16, 2004, the NIE [...]

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