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A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), January 20, 2004: “This report is a review and critique of computer and communication security issues in the SERVE voting system (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment), an Internet-based voting system being built for the U.S. Department of Defense’s FVAP (Federal Voting Assistance …
The 9/11 Commission has worked diligently to obtain the requisite government documents to fulfill its work by the May 27 deadline, but may seek an extension, which will be opposed by the President and House Speaker Hastert.
Earlier this month the IRS caused a controversy with the requirement that the tax software industry assist the agency in tracking filers who used the IRS Free File system. Yesterday brought an announcement that compliance with this requirement had been postponed “until the end of the current filing season.”
Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites: “Researchers are finding that despite the early promise of Internet bookmarks, people seem to be abandoning them.” See Keeping Found Things Found, A Research Project of the Information School at the University of Washington.
The pioneering California legislative information website celebrates its tenth anniversary this week. Statistics from last year record that the site averaged almost 12 million requests per month.
OPM reports that usage of the USAJobs portal has increased tenfold, to 31 million users, since its redesign this past summer.
