Month July 2004

Federal court upholds Calif. e-voting ban A federal judge today upheld California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley’s April 30 directive that decertified touch-screen voting machines and withheld future certification until vendors of those systems could meet specific security requirements, including…

CIA knew there were no WMDs Some damning evidence has been uncovered by the U.S. government committee looking into Washington’s pre-war intelligence on Iraq. Before the war, the CIA was told by relatives of Iraqi scientists that Baghdad’s programs to…

Do that funky perp walk, white boy Grand jury indicts Ken Lay for inflating Enron earnings Former Enron chairman Ken Lay is expected to be led in handcuffs into a Houston courtroom today <Thursday> following his indictment on charges related…

That’s because they never existed, Tony. But you knew that. Blair admits WMD may never be found in Iraq

I write badly, therefore I am a would-be terrorist From the new EFF blog The Houston Chronicle has a disturbing-yet-amusing tale of airline security gone awry with a disturbing and not-so-amusing ending — security officials adding an innocent man to…