Civil Liberties

• Hollywood Misleads The Press On Piracy Statistics

  30 Nov 2005 • 1 min read • Civil Liberties post

  Hollywood: Thousands Dead From File Sharing Statements and statistics from the music, movie and software cartels are about as accurate as their claims that they’re honest, hard-working companies …

• Judges Order Publishing Of Breathalyser Source Code

  30 Nov 2005 • 1 min read • security Civil Liberties post

  -code LiveAmmo Security Blog: Drunk drivers granted access to breathalyser source code If only I was able to be granted the source code for the laser detector that incorrectly clocked me over the …

• Quot Cybercrime Quot Treaty Is Criminal

  30 Nov 2005 • 1 min read • politics Civil Liberties post

  Fuzzy logic behind Bush’s cybercrime treaty | Perspectives | CNET News.com the Convention on Cybercrime will endanger Americans’ privacy and civil liberties–and place the FBI’s …

• Congress May Curtail Some Patriot Act Powers

  9 Nov 2005 • 1 min read • politics Civil Liberties post

  Congress May Curb Some Patriot Act Powers - Yahoo! News Now that congress has apparently taken the time to read the PATRIOT Act, they are more likely to do the right thing before voting for it a …

• Does Voting Machine Technology Affect The Outcome Of Elections

  30 Oct 2005 • 1 min read • technology security politics Civil Liberties post

  Some interesting results found in a study of 2000-2004 election data. We first show that there is a positive correlation between use of touch-screen voting and the level of electoral support for …

• Fixes To The Patriot Act Seen As Sufficient To Address Concerns

  30 Oct 2005 • 4 min read • Civil Liberties post

  Appropriate rational commentary on the specifics that need to be changed about the PATRIOT act to address privacy and governmental power and oversight issues. The Wall Street Journal November 12, 2004 …

• Blast From The Past Dmv Fraud

  26 Sep 2005 • 1 min read • security Civil Liberties post

  As the REAL ID act meets reality, recall a previous report on DMV fraud and lax security. If you think you have problems budgeting for security in your company, imagine being handed an unfunded …

• Federal Court Quot Smacks Down Quot Specious Dmca Claim

  26 Sep 2005 • 1 min read • Civil Liberties post

  Fed. Circuit Smacks Down Bad DMCA Decision Re: Independent Repair Techs Great news for the public’s rights over “copy” rights. the DMCA must be read in the context of the Copyright …

• Evidence Of The Expanding Us Totalitarian State

  19 Aug 2005 • 5 min read • Civil Liberties post

  From John Gilmore to the cryptography list: > one that is all too relevant today. The pertinent question is no longer > whether Americans spied, but rather how highly educated, intelligent men …

• More Tsa Idiocy

  3 Jul 2005 • 3 min read • freedom security Civil Liberties post

  Following up on my earlier posting on TSA idiocy… Supposedly this was also at SeaTac. Just met with some friends tonight and the subject of airline/airport “security” came up. A …