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Friday, January 30, 2004 |
Bruce Schneier Slouching toward Big Brother
Rarely do we discuss how little identification has to do with security, and how broad surveillance of everyone doesn't really prevent terrorism.
Bruce writes about how security is a trade-off and how what we're giving up is not worth what we're getting in the war on terror through surveillance in the United States. [Joi Ito's Web]
9:16:24 PM 
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NY Times: Medicare drug benefit cost soars. The Bush administration said Thursday that the new Medicare law offering prescription-drug benefits and private health plans to the elderly would cost at least $530 billion over 10 years, or one-third more than the price tag used when Congress passed the legislation two months ago. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
9:14:59 PM
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Washington Post: Bipartisan Request Seeks Halt to Internet Voting. In a highly unusual pairing, the Republican and Democratic party organizations for citizens living abroad have banded together against the Pentagon's Internet voting program for the presidential election. Concerns about the security of the online ballots could cast the entire election under a cloud of suspicion, they said in a joint letter urging a halt in the program. The letter released yesterday is being sent to several congressional committees.
Baltimore Sun: Md. computer testers cast a vote: Election boxes easy to mess with. For a week, the computer whizzes laid abuse - both high- and low-tech - on the six new briefcase-sized electronic voting machines sent over by the state. One guy picked the locks protecting the internal printers and memory cards. Another figured out how to vote more than once - and get away with it. Still another launched a dial-up attack, using his modem to slither through an electronic hole in the State Board of Elections software. Once inside, he could easily change vote totals that come in on Election Day. "My guess is we've only scratched the surface," said Michael A. Wertheimer, who spent 21 years as a cryptologic mathematician at the National Security Agency.
But hey, don't worry. It's only your vote we're talking about. You didn't think it really counted for something, did you? [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
9:14:19 PM
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The Bush administration, for whatever reason, has prevented the 9/11 panel from doing its job properly. Now it opposes the bipartisan investigators' request for more time to finish the task. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
9:14:06 PM
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