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As U.S. voters prepare to head to the polls Tuesday, weak and outdated federal voting standards have emerged as a major cause of e-voting security concerns.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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
“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 [...]
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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