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BlackBox Voting is reporting on a whistleblower lawsuit filed here in Washington state by a software engineer against his former employer VoteHere. He alleges that he was wrongfully terminated to silence his complaints while third party “certification” of the VoteHere system was being conducted. The lawsuit enumerates many of the system’s flaws that he documented in defect reports. It is a must-read.

I’ve been compiling a text file with my queue of music to get next and thought that I should share. It would also be much nicer to manage through MovableType with the MTAmazon plugin and the MTMacro plugin.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | How mobile phones and an �18m bribe trapped 9/11 mastermind

[IP] Top Inspectors Criticize CIA Data on Iraqi Sites

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ABCNews is reporting that several police agencies are under fire for domestic spying. Those of you who think that the government can have all the power it thinks it wants without checks and balances should take heed that this certainly breeds abuses. Read this article. See the trend toward more domestic spying. Be afraid.

Just hilarious if this suspect was truly the robber.

The Washington Post has a story about the victory for free speech handed down by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday. They upheld a lower court injunction blocking the law (COPA) as being too squishy to withstand constitutional muster.

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