10-28-2005

FCC Mandate Forces ‘Backdoors’ in Broadband ISPs and VoIP — the government will be asking broadband providers— as well as companies that manufacture devices used for broadband communications —to create new backdoors for surveillance
ELECTIONS: Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed — Hoo! What a title. Here is an article about certain of the GAO’s findings:
Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings — The United States is the only major democracy that allows private partisan corporations to secretly count and tabulate the votes with proprietary non-transparent software.
Conservatism Being Criminalized — “We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.” — Only because we elect criminals. —