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Archive for November, 2007

EM01b Websensor – revisited

Monday, November 12th, 2007

I’m still not 100% pleased with this little thing.
It seems to work most of the time, but I’m still seeing random points where it just won’t talk to the Nagios server. If there was a pattern that’d be one thing I could track down the cause. I know it has to be there, but [...]

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A judge in Holland has declared use of electronic voting machines illegal. According to the ruling, machines used in Dutch elections in November and March did not have adequate authorization and some were not certified. The most concerning factor for the Dutch government, which last week decided stop using evoting machines, appeared to [...]

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UK Authorities Can Demand Decryption Keys

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Law enforcement authorities in the UK now have the power to compel people to reveal decryption keys. If the request is refused, people could face up to five years in jail. The change comes as Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) was activated as of October 1. Critics [...]

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