Military Builds Robotic Insects

Oh, this is wonderful. NOT!

Real-ID: Costs and Benefits

Essay by Bruce Schneier.

It doesn’t really matter how well a Real ID works when used by the hundreds of millions of honest people who would carry it. What matters is how the system might fail when used by someone intent on subverting that system: how it fails naturally, how it can be made to fail, and how failures might be exploited.

'Secret' Key For Every Diebold Voting Machine 'Revealed'

It was revealed in the course of last summer's landmark virus hack of a Diebold touch-screen voting system at Princeton University that, incredibly, the company uses the same key to open every machine. It's also an easy key to buy at any office supply store since it's used for filing cabinets and hotel mini-bars!

Sleep well. Your government is awake.

Faulty Dell Inspiron LCD Screens

Dell shipped faulty LCD screens in 2005 and is giving customers grief about replacing the screens. It's time to bring attention to the issue.

It's long past time to stop buying from Dell!

NSA Helps Microsoft with Windows Vista

"I kind of call it a Good Housekeeping seal" of approval, said Michael Cherry, a former Windows program manager who now analyzes the product for Directions on Microsoft, a firm that tracks the software maker.

Cherry says the NSA's involvement can help counter the perception that Windows is not entirely secure and help create a perception that Microsoft has solved the security problems that have plagued it in the past.

Yeah, and if you believe THAT I've got a bridge I'd like to sell.

The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006.

The year in review -- a common topic in the final weeks.

Vote Early, Vote Often

We have recounts because vote counting is -- to put it mildly -- sloppy. Americans like their election results fast, before they go to bed at night. So we're willing to put up with inaccuracies in our tallying procedures, and ignore the fact that the numbers we see on television correlate only roughly with reality.