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1.8 million pages of federal case law to become freely available.

2007 Nov 15, 4:04Coming soon: case law freely available in the public domain.PermalinkCommentscopyright government information internet law legal

Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds

2007 Nov 15, 12:27Article on encrypted email company Hushmail giving email up to The Man. Includes interview with Hushmail CTO Brian Smith.PermalinkCommentsencryption article cryptography crypto anonymity anonymous email government privacy webmail mail legal security

SMBlog -- 12 November 2007

2007 Nov 14, 2:56News on recent privacy related matters with social websites and Donald Kerr's redefinition of privacy. Lots of good links.PermalinkCommentsprivacy anonymity blog post article government politics donald-kerr steven-bellovin

In The Know: Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

2007 Oct 31, 4:41ONN has a piece on how the government can help paranoid schizophrenics.PermalinkCommentsonion privacy humor video satire government

Latest Earthquakes: Feeds & Data

2007 Oct 21, 5:52From USGS is Earthquake info in RSS form.PermalinkCommentsdata gis earthquake rss science usgs government

Pick Your Candidate (2008 Presidential Candidates)

2007 Jul 22, 7:50Enter your views on various topics and see which candidates publicly stated opinions most match.PermalinkCommentsgovernment politics quiz vote

Seattle Department of Transportation: City's Old Street Signs Now Available to the Public

2007 Jul 14, 3:17Purchase used Seattle street signs from the Seattle DOT.PermalinkCommentsgovernment street signs purchase shopping seattle

IEEE Spectrum: The Athens Affair

2007 Jul 14, 12:15How hackers bugged the largest Greek cell provider and listened to government and military officials.PermalinkCommentsarticle ieee cellphone phone conspiracy hack hackers politics privacy security

WSDOT Seattle Area Traffic - I-5: NE 45th St

2007 May 29, 5:59Traffic map of the seattle area.PermalinkCommentstraffic camera car public government tool free travel

Missing Bee Roundup

2007 Apr 15, 4:06For the past several months I've seen various articles suggesting why bees are disappearing. At first I thought this was another crackpot's article that somehow made it onto digg.com. But they keep coming and sometimes from credible sources. After the article I saw tonight I thought I should go back and put together the various articles I've read on this topic. Bees may be disappearing due to pesticides, new organic pathogens, genetically modified crops, mobile phones, or climate change. Apparently, the US hasn't been keeping accurate counts of its bees so we don't know the extent of the situation. There's an interview with Maryann Frazier, M.S., of the Dept. of Etymology at Penn State and a congressional hearing on the matter.

I know this is all very serious and could signal the end of our ecosystem as we know it, but I can't help throwing in the following links as well. The bees could be hiding in this Florida couple's kitchen. Or perhaps they're laying low while being trained by the government to fight terrorism. Or they're hiding in extra dimensions that we mere humans can't perceive (I'm fairly certain that's what this article is suggesting. Really. Read it. Seriously. Its awesome.)PermalinkCommentsroundup personal bees nontechnical

Report Says the Young Buy Violent Games and Movies - New York Times

2007 Apr 13, 2:52Shocking newsflash: Kids view adult content! OMG! FTA: "Commission investigators also found that youth access to violent fare had fallen since 2000, especially in video games. Only 42 percent of unaccompanied young buyers were able to buy games rated M (fPermalinkCommentsarticle business censorship government rights violence videogames

'Talking' CCTV scolds offenders (BBC NEWS | UK | England)

2007 Apr 5, 11:45British cameras watching the public now have loudspeakers hooked up to scold people behaving inappropriately. What year is it?PermalinkCommentsparanoia government tv camera article bbc

The Truth about Cell Phones and the Do Not Call Registry

2007 Mar 30, 3:21The FTC describes why you don't need to register your cell phone on the national Do Not Call registry.PermalinkCommentsphone cellphone spam junk ftc government

wikileaks.org

2007 Mar 19, 1:23A site dedicated to creating a tool for leaking documents in an uncensorable fashion.PermalinkCommentswiki politics censorship government privacy security crypto cryptography

Best Practices for Siezing Electronic Evidence (United States Secret Service)

2007 Mar 13, 1:00The Secret Service's guide to siezing electronic evidence. Are people still using pagers?PermalinkCommentsgovernment security forensics secret-service

gCensus: Free online GIS

2007 Mar 13, 1:42Use government census data on Google Earth.PermalinkCommentsmap google statistics census reference mashup gis government interactive visualization

Commercial Exploitation of Europe's Public Sector Information

2006 Nov 27, 2:15Public bodies are by far the largest producers of information in Europe. This information is recognised as a major, but so far under-exploited asset, which could and should be a fundamental building block of the ‘new economy’ in the Information SociPermalinkCommentsstudy economics europe public-domain information government read

Doublespeak and the War on Terror

2006 Nov 27, 12:46Exec Summary: ... Since some high-ranking government officials and pundits are now referring to the war on terror as the “Long War” or “World War III,” because its duration is not clear, now is an appropriate time to take a few steps back andPermalinkCommentsdoublespeak orwell orwellian government politics propaganda

Schneier on Security

2006 Sep 25, 12:17PermalinkCommentsbruce-schneier security blog daily privacy rights trust government hack

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Pop-up Politician dishes dirt on US congress members

2006 Jul 26, 10:36PermalinkCommentsgovernment politics ajax tool tools internet javascript
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