July 2004 Archived Blogs

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		What We Missed in Boston THIS PHONE IS TAPPED Crimethinc.com Stickers and Agent Subversion Kits Fear of Fraud Some states, worried about the potential for abuse with voting machines that leave no paper trail, have banned their use this November. But Florida, which may well decide the presidential race, is not among those states, and last month state officials rejected a request to allow independent audits of the machines' integrity. Civil Rights Board Wants Inquiry on Florida Voter-Purge List Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called on the Justice Department to investigate possible voting-rights violations in Florida's troubled effort to purge felons from its voter registration lists. Finally, Civil Rights on Page One The Herald-Leader in Lexington, Ky., published a front-page expose on July 4, describing how it virtually ignored the civil rights movement. Attention, Shoppers Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future. DoD Wireless Initiative or "Use of Commercial Wireless Devices, Services, and Technologies in the Department of Defense (DoD) Global Information Grid (GIG)" The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good Military frets over Coke's phones, GPS There's a new security threat at some of the nation's military bases, and it looks uncannily like a can of Coke. You've Got Mail (and Court Says Others Can Read It)