Tag: security
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“Double Bubble Trouble”: Massive voter disenfranchisement in California — and Washington?
The LA Registrar of Voters says it may not be possible to determine voter intent! Please sign Courage Campaign’s “Count every vote” petition asking for a full recount! 25,000 signatures so far; latest update and some discussion about “intent” on Courage Campaign’s page here. PeteTV has a video and transcript at So this is what…
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Is *that* why they make you wait till you’re at 10,000 feet to turn computers on?
Boeing just announced another delay for the 787, its second or third so far depending on who you believe, so I wanted to go back to a story Kim Zetter reported a few weeks ago on the Wired Threat Level blog: Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability in its…
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Five-year olds as national security threats
Boing Boing has stories on not one but two five-year-olds whose names are on the no-fly list and so get treated by the TSA as a security threat. Cory Doctorow comments You know, if you wanted to systematically discredit the idea of a Department of Homeland Security, if you wanted to make an utter mockery…
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DHS issues revised “Real ID” regulations
The Department of Homeland Security has released revised “Real ID” regulations — 284 pages long. While according to government jargon these are the “final” regulations, the first deadline for compliance has now been pushed back to December 31, 2009, so there’s still plenty of opportunity for Congress to act and change things. Their press release…