New Cyberthreat Against WiFi Detailed in WSJ Article
From today’s WSJ free features, ‘Evil Twins’ and ‘Pharming’ – Hackers Use Two New Tricks To Steal Online Identities; Scams Are Harder to Detect.
California Senate Approves Prohibition on RFID Tags
Another follow-up, this time to my March 1, 2005 posting, California Bill to Prohibit State Issued IDs With RFID Tags. The aforementioned bill was approved by the California Senate on May 16. For details, see this EFF press release, Bill to Protect Californians’ Privacy, Personal Safety, and Financial Security Advances in State Senate. Related references: …
Questions Persist About WMDs and Revelations of UK Gov’t Docs.
Follow-up to my May 9 posting, Justification for War Questioned by 88 Reps, today the Senate Democratic Policy Committee issued the following press release: New Intelligence Memo Raises Serious Questions About the Bush Administration’s Case for War in Iraq. Update: From the The Sunday Times – Britain, “This new web page is designed to give …
Impact of Political Bloggers on 2004 Campaign Examined in New Research Project
A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, Buzz, Blogs and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in the Fall of 2004 (32 pages, PDF), “PIP and BuzzMetrics examined the interplay of blogs, online citizen chatter in newsgroups, the mainstream news media and official political spin from the Democrat and Republican …
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court
Encyclopedia Of The Supreme Court, by David Shultz. Publisher: Facts on File (May 31, 2005). For more details, see the press release.
DC Metro SmarTrip System Collects Data on Riders
EPIC FOIA Notes #5, May 16, 2005: “The SmarTrip farecard, which includes an embedded RFID chip, tracks each rider’s metro travel and can be linked to address and credit card data. Most records held by state agencies are protected by law, but no similar protections exist for the SmarTrip system.” Metro SmarTrip homepage
Markup of Patriot Act Behind Closed Doors May 19
From the ACLU press release: “The Senate Intelligence Committee announced today that it is rushing forward with a markup of Patriot Act reauthorization legislation Thursday, but that the session will be behind closed doors…Some of the most extreme parts of the Patriot Act are set to sunset, or expire, at the end of this year …
Enhanced Version of MSN Search Toolbar Launched
Microsoft press release: Searching just got smarter with launch of MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search: “The MSN® network of Internet services today launched the new MSN Search Toolbar with Windows® Desktop Search, a suite of tools that helps people rapidly search across the Web or their PC and provides easy access to world-leading …
FDA Aggregates Drug Safety Info For Easier Consumer Access
Index of Drug Specific Information: “FDA is in the process of updating its drug safety information and making it available to consumers in a new, user friendly format. Under the new format, clicking on a drug takes you to a “core page” with links to all information on that drug available on the FDA site. …
Ramifications of Real ID Act on DMV Agencies Across the Country Begins to Resonate
‘Real ID’ Faces Reality: “The National Conference of State Legislatures estimates it could cost states as much as $750 million to implement measures required by the act, including some $80 million to create links among state databases.” From the Washington Post (reg. req’d), Anti-Terror Legislation Expected to Lengthen DMV Lines Link to text of Real …
IBM Encourages Enterprise Blogging And Sets Guidelines for Authors
From this posting by James Snell, a member of the IBM’s Software Standards Strategy Group: “…IBM today is publishing an announcement on its Intranet site encouraging all 320,000+ employees world wide to consider engaging actively in the practice of “blogging”…So with IBMers blogging both inside and outside our Intranet environment, recognizing full well that it …
Dogpile.com Sponsored White Paper Documents Rate of Overlap in Big Three Engine Results
Missing Pieces: A Study of First Page Web Search Engine Results Overlap “A comprehensive study conducted by metasearch engine Dogpile.com in collaboration with researchers from The University of Pittsburgh and The Pennsylvania State University has found that page one results returned by leading single engines Google, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves differ substantially from one another. …