Jeff Schogol reports: The Air Force is changing the rules on how the media and general public get information about airmen accused of crimes. A recent Air Force Instruction lists several changes to how the service applies the Uniform Code of Military Justice that are intended to protect the privacy of accused airmen at the…
Category: Misc
Chris Soghoian on Exploit Sales
Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Soghoian, a principal technologist at the ACLU, about the developing market for buying and selling exploits and vulnerabilities. Soghoian has been a vocal critic of exploit sales and in this podcast he discusses the reasons why and why he thinks the policymakers in Washington need to get involved. Listen to…
Programming Note: I’m back, I hope
After 11 days without power and heat, and after days spent on the phone yelling at LIPA, my town, and Governor Cuomo’s hurricane hotline, we got power back last night. When a solitary workman with a truck showed up on my street (I had stayed on the phone for 5 hours until I got through…
E-Mail Voting Fails Some New Jersey Residents
Ben Smith reports: New Jersey’s last-minute offer of e-mail voting to displaced residents was greeted by concern by security experts, who warn that e-mail offers a fast track to voter fraud. But the system may have another problem as well: County election administrators are, according to anecdotal reports, simply not responding to all requests for ballots. In…