Privacy activists rightly complained about whitehouse.gov’s use of YouTube videos for President Obama’s weekly addresses, as it allowed a private third-party company to use cookies to track visitors to a government web site. The whitehouse.gov site appears to have responded to these complaints but in so doing has adopted a flash format that is [...]
Interesting CNET article,
A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.
The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the “IP Traceback” drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting [...]
In December 2007, over 2,000 American Muslims were asked what they would wish to say to the rest of the world. This is what they said. A music video for Kareem Salama’s “A Land Called Paradise.” (Winner of LinkTV’s 2007 One Nation Contest’s Grand Prize):
I’ve been working from Starbucks today on the T-Mobile wireless, and I’m now, in less than four hours, sitting next to the second pyramid scheme pitch. The first one was amusing because it was incomprehensible what the product or service even being sold was. The entire discussion was motivational and about how much [...]
This nice work by Larisa, Alison, David, and other borgers gets a write-up in The Daily Californian entitled: Radio Tags in ID Cards Raise Privacy Issues.
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Doug Tygar has pointed out that Google’s efforts to assist the Chinese government censor the web are not yet perfected. Tygar points to an example of a technological glitch that, to me, also illustrates why one should have moral qualms about Google’s actions to aid the Chinese government.
When using Google.cn’s Image search for ‘Tiananmen’ (capitalized) [...]
Oh my, this post from Fafblog on our omnipotent president is too funny.
A. Well if you want, the president can stop the illegal wiretapping just for you.
Q. Really? Well thanks, that’d be great!
A. And then the terrorists can come and eat you.
Q. Wait! What?
A. Cause without the wiretaps there’s nothin to stop the terrorists from [...]
For those who recall text-based adventure games, check out defective yeti’s Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure. Hilarious. An excerpt:
> STAY COURSE
The situation in Iraq deteriorates.
Some insurgents arrive. There is a large number of insurgents here.
> STAY COURSE
[...]
I forgot to mention one other encouraging notice that poll Inspectors received regarding our Diebold TS voting machines. One machine is to be designated for disability access and the poll workers attach headphones and a numeric keypad. We received a notice with our supplies that indicated that
If more than four voters use the VIBS ballot [...]
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