Sadly, some electronic voting machine manufacturers in the USA have been getting some bad press regarding their machines’ alleged accuracy issues. Martin McKeay put up this post with a mock news video about electronic voting machine risks the other day (click HERE).
This could be just the tip of the iceberg. Maybe we could all someday have the illusion of: Continue Reading »
I felt a bit like one of the humans in Planet of the Apes (or the Simpsons’ version - Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off … click HERE) today when I saw the news about the breach of privacy by US State Department and/or passport office employees. They have apparently accessed passport records for Obama, Clinton and McCain over the past year or two. This is certainly a sensitive issue, and breaches like this should be detected and escalated quickly for response. It’s not clear to me how long it took for a proper response to occur in this instance, but once the media gets a hold of it, there will obviously be a lot of armchair quarterbacking going on.
The thing that bothers me, personally, is that a few of the reports I’ve seen were questioning why “contractors” were able to access this information, as opposed to having only full-time employees able to access such sensitive data. Continue Reading »
