Yet another viable method?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/05/2234252&from=rss
Verifiable Elections Via Cryptography
Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 05, @09:13PM from the but-suppose-they-don't-want-to-make-cheating-impossible? Dept. Security Politics
An anonymous reader writes, "Cryptographer David Chaum and his research team have invented a new voting protocol which allows voters to verify that their vote has been correctly cast and counted. This is enabled using a surprisingly low-tech technique of cryptographic secret sharing. The secret — your marked ballot — is split into two halves using a hole punch" You take half home and can verify later via a Web interface how your particular ballot was counted.
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/11/neil_richards_o.html
Neil Richards on Information Privacy
posted by Daniel J. Solove November 05, 2006
Professor Neil Richards of Washington University Law School has posted on SSRN his recent essay, The Information Privacy Law Project, 94 Geo. L.J. 1087 (2006). He reviews my book, The Digital Person, and offers an interesting and insightful critique. Although he takes issue with some of my arguments and with the term "privacy," I find his review to be mostly a friendly amendment rather than an attack. Here's the abstract:
If the target of an interrogation can detect the “technique” being used, it isn't worth protecting in the first place... (Psych 101?)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/04/terrorism.detainees.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Bush administration: Ex-CIA prisoner shouldn't speak to attorney
POSTED: 12:17 p.m. EST, November 4, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison should not be allowed to speak to a civilian attorney, the Bush administration argues, because he could reveal the agency's closely guarded interrogation techniques.
If they're innocent they have nothing to hide?
http://www.gulfcoastgateway.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061106/NEWS01/611060324/1006
Published - November, 6, 2006
Newspapers push for FEMA records
Speech, privacy rights advocates take sides on hurricane payouts
Jeff Cull jcull@news-press.com
A battle between open government and individual privacy resumes Tuesday in federal appeals court as three Gannett Inc. newspapers in Florida seek access to hurricane-relief records.
The newspapers want the government to disclose who got federal aid and how much after four hurricanes battered Florida in 2004. A federal judge denied the request in November. The case now will be heard in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal in Atlanta. The three-judge court is expected to rule within the next six months.
"This is a real test of whether everything in government is a privacy issue," said Charles Davis, executive director of the Freedom of Information Center at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
... "How can we know whether billions of taxpayer dollars are being spent appropriately without specific information on where the money went?" Marymont said. "This isn't a question of journalists' access to information but residents' access. People want to know if they were treated the same from house to house, neighborhood to neighborhood, storm to storm."
... In a separate suit filed by the Sun-Sentinel, a federal judge this year ordered FEMA to disclose the addresses, but not identities, of hurricane victims who received aid.
Interesting map of phishing sources...
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00001012
New phishing statistics
Posted by Mikko @ 11:40 GMT
Phishtank, a service run by the good folks at OpenDNS, have published their first set of phishing statistics.
Interesting stuff, showing that Paypal and eBay continue to be the most targeted organizations in phishing attacks, but some German banks are climbing up the scales.
Isn't this a common argument? Don't you sign a traffic ticket so you can drive off rather than go to jail?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20061106/002555.shtml
Australian Firm Forced To Rehire Employee It Fired For Viewing Porn On Work Computers
from the so-now-it's-allowed? dept
Last year, NCR Australia fired a long-term (31 years) employee after it discovered 175 pornographic pictures stored on his work computer. That kind of story isn't all that uncommon these days -- but what is strange is that the Industrial Relations Commission has apparently told the company it needs to hire the guy back, saying that his dismissal was unfair, as well as "harsh, unreasonable and unjust." The man in question claimed that such content was routinely passed around at work, including from his supervisor. The review found that, even though having porn on the computer may have violated the signed policies of the company, since the signing of that form was done in a "mechanical, unthinking routine," it probably was meaningless. I would imagine this does not mean that Australians are free to surf porn at work whenever they feel like it, but they might at least make a reasonable defense as to why they shouldn't be fired for it.
We can, therefore we must? I suppose this will be another case of “some low level guy (we fired him) did this. We didn't know it was happening.”
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/republican-fake-phone-call-scandal.html
Republican "fake phone call" scandal spreads - now in Philly too
by John in DC - 11/05/2006 09:39:00 PM Sunday, November 05, 2006
This is turning into a big story. They're doing it across the country - Kansas, NH, and now PA. This is the Republican October Surprise, launched in November. It's to cheat, pretend that they are Democrats calling voters and then piss the voters off so much that they don't vote for the Democrats.
That's called lying and cheating in order to suppress the vote, and it's illegal. And the Republican party admits they're doing it.
States in which GOP fake calls are happening so far:
Techie stuff... Video, music, image and document formats.
http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php
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Customer service?
http://www.ps3land.com/article-951.php
Bestbuy preorders deemed "a system glitch"
by Greg Bergen Posted 5 Nov 2006
Late last night, Bestbuy customers were able to fill out preorder forms for the PlayStation 3, online at www.bestbuy.com. The whole process seemed legit as customers believed they could obtain a PS3 without having to lineup or camp outside the store on launch day. However, the simple fact that Bestbuy gave customers preorders for a console should shock everyone, considering the fact that they never do preorders. There were reports that some people were actually able to fill out 12-15 preorders using different accounts. The whole system was hectic and fueled by the need for PlayStation 3.
To clear up this mess, we at PS3Land were able to get a hold of a Bestbuy sales representative via their public number 888-BESTBUY. The man assured us that the whole preorder process was a system glitch. Informed us that Bestbuy does not do preorders and that everyone who was able to obtain a preorder on their site will not be receiving one and will be given a full refund.
Killing trees.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2006/tc20061105_572061.htm
Google's New Frontier: Print Ads
With a slew of big-city newspapers on its side, Google sets out to reproduce the success of its online ad programs—offline
by Jon Fine November 6, 2006, 10:0PM EST
... Google Print Ads is notable for both the number of newspapers that have signed on, as well as the participants it's attracting. Among the participating papers are some of the nation's largest and most renowned: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Denver Post. More than 100 advertisers will take part as well.
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