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Bad Phorm on Privacy

Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 7:32 am, Over one day old
Their privacy promise is that personally-identifiable information is never stored, but they make no promises on how the raw logs of search terms and URLs are used before they are deleted.

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Music Industry Under Fire for Exploring EFF Suggestion

Posted Wednesday April 2, 2008, 2:37 pm, Over one day old
In fact, if the plan takes off, individual rights holders may face an incentive to defect, since consumers are equally likely to infringe all popular music regardless of which music happens to be covered by the plan (since they aren’t likely to track which music is covered).

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An Inconvenient Truth About Privacy

Posted Tuesday April 1, 2008, 5:30 am, Over one day old
We all like to tool around in our SUVs, but too much driving leads to global warning. When JuicyCampus conserves storage by eliminating its access logs, it can sell the unused storage capacity to ChoicePoint, perhaps for storing information about the same JuicyCampus posters.

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Comcast and BitTorrent: Why You Can?t Negotiate with a Protocol

Posted Friday March 28, 2008, 4:36 am, Over one day old
The big tech policy news yesterday was Comcast’s announcement that it will stop impeding BitTorrent traffic, but instead will respond to network congestion by slowing traffic from the highest-volume users, regardless of what those users are doing.

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California review of the ES&S AutoMARK and M100

Posted Wednesday March 26, 2008, 4:36 am, Over one day old
It appears that ES&S (manufacturers of the Ink-a-Vote voting system, used in Los Angeles, as well as the iVotronic systems that made news in Sarasota, Florida in 2006) submitted its latest and greatest “Unity 3.0.1.1″ system for California certification.

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The Security Mindset and ?Harmless Failures?

Posted Wednesday March 26, 2008, 4:36 am, Over one day old
Your first reaction to the might have been, “So what? The people who put donotreply.com email addresses into their outgoing email must have known that they didn’t control the donotreply.com domain, so they must have thought of any reply messages directed there as harmless failures.

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Sequoia?s Explanation, and Why It?s Not the Whole Story

Posted Thursday March 20, 2008, 4:37 am, Over one day old
The poll worker then presses any unused option switch. Consider the scenario described above: there is a moment when the red light next to the DEM button is lit, the operator panel displays DEM, then the poll worker presses the Activate button — and the Republican ballot is activated.

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Evidence of New Jersey Election Discrepancies

Posted Wednesday March 19, 2008, 4:36 am, Over one day old
The evidence is a “summary tape” printed by a Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine in Hillside, New Jersey when the polls closed at the end of the presidential primary election. (New Jersey has a closed primary, so voters can cast ballots only in their own registered party.)

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Interesting Email from Sequoia

Posted Tuesday March 18, 2008, 4:43 am, Over one day old
Several people, including reporters, have asked me to confirm its authenticity. Sequoia has also retained counsel to stop any infringement of our intellectual properties, including any non-compliant analysis.

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Privacy: Beating the Commitment Problem

Posted Wednesday March 12, 2008, 4:35 am, Over one day old
One way to attack this problem is to use standardized contracts. Another approach is to have the actual data held by a third party with deeper pockets — the startup would provide the code that implements its service, but the code would run on equipment managed by the third party.

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