Privacy.security

Slashdot | EFF Urges Support for Rep. Boucher's DMCRA.
DarkSparks writes "The EFF is urging everyone to contact their Representatives and ask them to co-sponsor Representative Rick Boucher and John Doolittle's recently introduced Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, H.R. 5544), which would introduce labelling requirements for usage-impaired "copy-protected" compact discs, as well as make several key amendments to the DMCA, including affirming the right of scientific research into technology protection measures and affirming the right of citizens to circumvent technology measures to gain access to copyrighted works they've purchased."
[Privacy Digest]

Feel the Love

8:59:33 AM

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Wow! Microsoft is going to make me more secure even if it means they have to break some of my applications. How noble, how self-sacrificing, how poignant. Can you feel the love?

Mundie grades Trustworthy Computing after first year.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA -- A year ago last week, Microsoft Corp.'s chief technical officer, Craig Mundie, gave a presentation at its Silicon Valley campus here that served as the public unveiling of a widespread initiative to improve the security and reliability of Microsoft's products. [...]
[...] "Even if it means that we're going to break some of your applications, it's going to make things more secure," Mundie said. [...] [InfoWorld: Top News]

Poindexter and Ashcroft Are Not Liars

8:08:48 AM

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Why all the hue and cry over the lying in the current Administration? It's not the lies we ought to be worried about -- it's the forthright, obvious, unrepentant Nazi-fication of the country that ought have our attention. And far too many otherwise intelligent people are being flim-flammed by the manufactured cloak of patriotism that's being laid over this pile of horse manure. (The NYTimes article requires free registration. Would that it were not so...)

William Safire's concern about the Homeland Security Act - He says, if the Act is not amended before passage, here's what will happen to you:
"Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade your receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as a virtual, centralized grand database.
[...] [Ernie the Attorney]