thad hall a political scientist at caltech complains that evoting critics rarely make applestoapples comparisons between electronic and paper voting systems. they contend that if traditional paper voting systems were subjected to the same kind of close scrutiny that evoting endures security experts would find flawsballot tampering ballot box stuffing and so forthat least as serious as the problems...
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my soontobe colleague david robinson has a great post about the recent dancing toddler copyright story in which he tries to puzzle out the dmcas implications for automated takedown programs. the dmca provides copyright holders with a remedy for online materials they believe to be infringing they may send a notice to a relevant isp demanding that the materials be removed. isps have a strong incenti...
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diebold elections systems is changing its name to premier election solutions. the change to premier signifies a new beginning for the company. diebold press release aug. 16 2007 so the hundreds of votes that were dropped in ohios march primary elections the ones that premier election solutions formerly called diebold election systems dbd insisted were caused by faulty antivirus software and not...
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i havent done this in a while so heres what is being discussed in the jersey netrootsalive and kicking wonders about windmillscrapers i gave you a link how about an invite for horseridin.the barista serves up a steamin cup o good music. for a good cause no less. blog the fifth catches an interview with scott what environment garrett. garrett explains that massive failures are good in the long run...
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that purveyor of all things craptacular as it pertains to electronic voting is in the news again. diebold premier election solutions has admitted that there is a problem with the touch screen voting machines in ohio. originally the vendor had blamed antivirus software for the problems that they were experienci ng. natch from the columbus dispatch but in a letter tuesday to brunner premier presid...
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gymnastics scores and grade inflation the gymnastics scoring in this years olympics has generated some controversy as usual. some of the controversy feel manufactured nbc tried to create a hubbub over nastia liukin losing the uneven......
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yesterday the fcc released their report on their decision against comcasts secret degredation of bittorrent protocol traffic. the basic content of this ruling has been known since early august. it nominally states that comcast violated federal rules for reasonable network management. network neutrality proponents have been quick to applaud the fccs ruling. certainly this action violates a hand...
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planet google presents in eerily similar cases in the netherlands and the united states courts have recently grappled with the computersecurity norm of full disclosure asking whether researchers should be permitted to disclose details of a farecard vulnerability that allows people to ride the subway for free. the oyster card used on the london tube was at issue in the dutch case and a simila...
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in eerily similar cases in the netherlands and the united states courts have recently grappled with the computersecurity norm of full disclosure asking whether researchers should be permitted to disclose details of a farecard vulnerability that allows people to ride the subway for free. the oyster card used on the london tube was at issue in the dutch case and a similar fare card used on the bo...
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technology law baseball rock n roll etc. intro stuff the opinions expressed in lawlawlaw do not necessarily reflect the opinions of clock tower law group its employees or the author. do not taunt happy fun ball. i lived the life of dilbert when i was in the air force. once while i was away on a business trip our office cubicles were rearranged but nobody was managing the project. when i return...
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over lunch i did something oldfashionedi picked up and read a print copy of the new york times. i was startled to find on the front of the business section a large colorfully decorated feature headlined is google a media company the graphic accompanying the story shows a newspaper masthead titled google today followed by a list of current and imagined future offerings from google maps and google e...
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the fccs recent comcast actionwhose full text is unavailable as yet though it was described in a press release and statements from each comissioneris a lesson in the importance of technological literacy for policymaking. the five commissioners views as reflected in their statements are strongly correlated to the degree of understanding of the fact pattern that each commissioners statement reveals....
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for some unfortunate reason there seems to be this idea that open solutions are somehow a less feasible business strategy. there are still those that sneer at open source companies as somehow being lessthantr uebusiness es despite an awful lot of evidence to the contrary. but beyond just being a good business strategy its worth pointing out that open solutions will almost always win in the end ...
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how come there arent more technologists on the board setting voting tech standards ed felten raises a rather important question concerning the lack of knowledgeable computer scientists or other voting technology experts on the election assistance commission eac board of......
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from ed feltenbarbara simons an accomplished computer scientist and evoting expert was recently appointed to the election assistance commission eac board of advisors. the eac is the u.s. federal body responsible for voting technology standards among other things. this is good news. the board has thirtyseven members of which four positions are allocated for members representing professionals in the...
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heres what i tagged on del.icio.us between july 23rd and july 30th web curbs for olympic journalists what a surprise plenty of blame to go around in yahoo music shutdown ed felten knows who to blame and i agree with him entirely. exploit code targets mac os x itunes java winzip nasty little piece of software called evilgrade that uses a man in the middle attack to exploit automatic update code...
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ed felten has a great post questioning various government regulations forcing local ownership advisory committees and content for certain types of broadcast media. felten points out that local content makes sense for local communities but communities arent just defined by locality anymore. in fact he points out how such local broadcasting rules made it more difficult for him to keep in touch wit...
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