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Companies can signal a commitment to privacy, but those signals will be unreliable so customers won’t be willing to pay much for them — which will leave the companies with little incentive to actually protect privacy. How many customers would be willing to pay this much?
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Postings here have been a bit sparse lately, which I hope to remedy soon. In the meantime, you can get a hearty dose of tech policy blog goodness over at my course blog, where students in my course in Information Technology and Public Policy post their thoughts on the topic. Share This
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Otherwise, things slow down, particularly if, say, your driver’s license doesn’t match up with the computer. “What was your previous address?” Unsurprisingly, the voter registration / sign-in table was the bottleneck. You can have more registration terminals.
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The attacker can take the laptop back to his lair, and then open the lid. The machine will reawaken, with the same information in memory that was there when you put the machine to sleep — and that information includes the secret key that is used to encrypt the files on your hard disk.
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This was thought to be safe because the operating system would keep any malicious programs from accessing the keys in memory, and there was no way to get rid of the operating system without cutting power to the machine, which “everybody knew” would cause the keys to be erased.
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You might be asking yourself, why don?t the broadband service providers invest more into their networks and add more capacity? For the record, broadband service providers are investing in their networks, but simply adding more bandwidth does not solve [the P2P problem].
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Should they impose their own standard? Absent any sort of “smoking gun” (and, yes, 18,000 undervotes apparently didn’t make quite enough smoke on their own), it would seem unlikely that the Committee on House Administration would vote to overturn the election.
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The first question to ask is why Microsoft made such a high offer for Yahoo. First, at least in some markets, two-way competition between Microhoo and Google might be more vigorous than the current three-way competition between a dominant Google and two rivals.
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Here’s me with two unattended voting machines, taken on Sunday evening in a Princeton polling place: Here are four more unattended voting machines, taken on Monday evening in another Princeton polling place.
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Arizona’s Libertarian voters who wish to participate in its primary election have no choice but to vote online. This scheme partly addresses the risk of voter coercion and bribery (see sidebar), but it doesn’t do anything for the insecurity of the client platform.
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