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Process and security in electronic voting

Process and security in electronic votingVote hacking in hardwareMy website at Verfied Voring New Mexico got slashdotted so it's off the air for a few days till I get some more bandwidth. Glad the word is getting out. Black Box Voting .org now has the photos up...

Tags: Memory, e-voting, memory card, attack, election official, Diebold Inc., security

Discussion threads 2006-09-07

Estonia pulls off nationwide Net voting

Estonia pulls off nationwide Net votingThe problem remainsAfter all, political operatives could, under this system "rent" cards for voting purposes. The cards can even be stolen and with the proper official cooperation, forged. Furthermore, Estonia is still trusting a computer program to insure the secrecy of the vote....

Tags: ID card, Estonia, election official

Discussion threads 2005-10-17

California to sue e-vote machine maker

California to sue e-vote machine makerCookies in eVoting machinesDid you catch this:http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78Seems to me there is nothing to stop me writing voting machine software, so that if I tap five times in the top left corner the Democrat wins, if I tap five times in the right corner the Republican...

Tags: E-voting, Tools & Techniques, Diebold Inc., John L. Ries, election official, e-vote

Discussion threads 2004-09-08

Additional Resources

UK may disconnect suspected file sharers

Upon suspicion?Or upon determination of guilt in a court of law??? What has happened to the Magna Carta, and the right to trial before assumption of guilt?Mr MandelsonHas friends in the big media companies. He went to a meeting with them one morning with them and then disclosed...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, guilt, Magna Carta

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

California 1.0 (Mobile)

California offers all of the vital information in between elections. Learn all about who represents you in the California legislature with photos, election results, and official bios. View or search by the full legislature, the Assembly or Senate, or search directly for your assembly members or Senators. Connect with your...

Tags: Senator, Mobile, California, BIOS, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Components, Finance

Software downloads 2009-08-25

CongressPro 3.2 (Mobile)

Congress Pro gives all of the vital information in between congressional elections with a constant stream of information throughout 2009. Keep track of members and open seats in Congress with photos, district maps, election results, and official bios. View or search by the full Congress, the House or Senate, or...

Tags: Mobile, U.S. Congress, BIOS, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-08-25

Lance Armstrong for health czar

Lance Armstrong for health czarLance already has a full-time jobTeam RadioshackWhile I don't......agree with National Health Care, if it's going to be forced upon us I could see Lance fulfilling this position.The idea of wellnessfits in perfectly with Obama-care.Health care reform isn't about health care. It's about the state grabbing...

Tags: Vertical industries, Government, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Lance Armstrong, wellness, health care, Livestrong

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey billEvidence for your assertions, pleaseWhile there is at least weak scientific evidence that man contributes to global warming (I do not trust it, but at least some studies try to make the point), there is none for climate change causing weather events like hurricanes. ...

Tags: Messiah, hurricane, global warming, Waxman-Markey, life saving, sea level, game, Katrina

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google

Yahoo's Carol Bartz took the stage at her first annual shareholder's meeting as CEO this morning. The first half of the meeting was business as usual, specifically votes on the re-election of board members and other official business facing the board. It wasn't until about halfway through the meeting that...

Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Craigslist sues South Carolina AG, who backs off sort of; Download the complaint

Craigslist sues South Carolina AG, who backs off sort of; Download the complaintGood for themIf a crime is committed, by all means Craigslist should cooperate with the authorities as any good business would. But Craigslist is not in the business of crime stopping nor are they obliged to cater to...

Tags: Professional development, Craigslist, South Carolina AG, SC AG

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Health care is rationed and people die

Health care is rationed and people dieWrong approachThe health care provisions in the current "stimulus" package are a prescription for the elimination of the aged and no amount of "data"worship can change that fact. What's next "Soylent Green"?Government Run Health Care == VA HospitalsWant to see how government mandated...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-02-15

Obama's Transparency Problem

Image: Shorpy.com At the close of a momentous day in American - and international - politics, it is not hard to actually feel the strong sense that one epoch has ended and another one has begun. The Obama election campaign's shining...

Tags: White House, Obama, Collaboration, Groupware, Productivity, E-mail, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Inauguration pass or fail? Social network, streaming video report card

Countless people took to the Internet today to live stream the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. I wrote yesterday about some skepticism over whether or not the social networks and streaming video sites would hold up during one of their most highly trafficked days....

Tags: Card, Facebook, Network, Streaming Video, Video, Twitter, CNN, Ustream, Corporate Communications, Social Networking, Web Site Development, Internet, Digital Video, Web Technology, Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Obama to 'fight back' for his BlackBerry

Obama to 'fight back' for his BlackBerryOnly a country full of moronic lawyers...would want their leader deaf, blind, and mute.It's 2008. Damn right it's time for a change.Good for himGood for Obama. Bucks the status quo, with good reason. Geez, man, if the presidential IT folks are unable...

Tags: Handhelds, Obama, RIM BlackBerry, fight back

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

Are White House computers a crime scene?

Are White House computers a crime scene?Really pointless attention huntingI am surprised that it takes some news author to bring up the issue of proper care and archiving of official communication and proper treatment of electronic information carriers.For one, it would take real numskulls in the president's entourage to leave...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Whitehouse, crime scene, White House, Bush-bashing, computer, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

The Toybox in 2008: A retrospective

It's been an incredible year. This blog was launched, ZDNet Reviews was overhauled, and a whole lot of news 'n' reviews came through The Toybox pipeline. And through it all, you readers were here with us. Here's a recap of the best stories: January:...

Tags: ASUS, Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., T-Mobile, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Blu-ray, ZDNet Reviews, CES 2008, Josh, Andrew, Firefox 3 Beta 5, Flip Mino Camcorder, MSI, BlackBerry Storm, Barack Obama, CES 2009, Handhelds, Hd Dvd, Hardware, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Chrome currently beating IE8 Beta in market share

Chrome currently beating IE8 Beta in market shareGet a life Garett. The world doesn't revolve around Google...ntnt.RE: Chrome currently beating IE8 Beta in market shareOf course, once the final release is reached, Microsoft can flick a switch and send IE8 to hundreds of millions of computers via Windows/Microsoft Update.Are you...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc., IE8 Beta

Discussion threads 2008-12-15

Members of right-wing UK party exposed

Members of right-wing UK party exposedAhhow calmly you relate the fact, with no apparent discomfort that a police officer could be fired for belonging to the wrong political group.So, you were cool with McCarthy, eh?WellCouldn't have happen to a nicer group of people :)RE: Members of right-wing UK party exposedOh...

Tags: Workforce management, BNP, right-wing

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Texas gov. intercedes in failing IBM project

Texas gov. intercedes in failing IBM projectCouldn't happen to two nicer parties ...As far as IBM is concerned, it's business as usual; the customer is to be told what they are going to get and how much they are going to pay for it, and they better learn to like...

Tags: Strategy, IT knowledge, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Foreign governments attack White House, Obama, McCain campaign systems

Hmm, anyone want to place bets on what "foreign entity" has been hacking into Obama and McCain campaign computers, as Newsweek reports? Could it be the same country China that penetrated the White House's email archive system and lifted email conversation between top officials, as the Financial Times reports? ...

Tags: Network, White House, Attack, Obama, Government, Phishing, E-mail, Hacking, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Security, Cyberthreats, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-07