Monitoring Needed to Assess Impact of EPA’s Clean Air Mercury Rule on Potential Hotspots, Report No. 2006-P-00025 [Report – PDF, 33 pages] [At a Glance – PDF], May 15, 2006.
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Daily Archives: May 15, 2006
Reliability and Integrity of Digital Evidence Often in Question
An interesting article in today’s National Law Journal (free) discusses issues associated with the integrity of digital evidence, including email, photos, and metadata. Continue Reading
U.S. Restores Diplomatic Relations With Libya
State Department Fact Sheet: Rescission of Libya’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, May 15, 2006. U.S. Diplomatic Relations With Libya, Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Washington, DC, May 15, 2006 State Department Fact Sheet: Libya’s Decision to Eliminate WMD and MTCR-Class Missile Programs: An International Model, May 15, 2006 Continue Reading
Status Report on Microsoft Compliance With Final Judgments
Joint Status Report on Microsoft’s Compliance with the Final Judgments – May 15, 2006 (25 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
Treasury IG Audit of Criminal Investigation Activities From FY 2000-2005
Statistical Portrayal of the Criminal Investigation Function’s Enforcement Activities From Fiscal Year 2000 Through Fiscal Year 2005 Report Date: 05/12/2006, (48 pages, PDF) “The CI function performance measures and business results showed improvements from Fiscal Year (FY) 2003. Specifically, the total number of subject investigations completed and prosecution referrals increased; the number of indictments, convictions,… Continue Reading
GAO Reports Need for Better Military Planning for Future Disasters
Hurricane Katrina: Better Plans and Exercises Needed to Guide the Military’s Response to Catastrophic Natural Disasters, Full-text of GAO-06-643, and Highlights, May 15, 2006. Continue Reading
Black Box Voting Report on Diebold Security Issues
5-11-06: Three-level security flaws found in Diebold touch-screens. Critical Security Alert: Diebold TSx and TS6 voting systems by Harri Hursti, for Black Box Voting, Inc. (12 pages, PDF) “Due to the nature of this report it is distributed in two different versions. Details of the attack are only in the restricted distribution version considered to… Continue Reading
Does Domestic Telephone Surveillance Violate Communications Act?
Following up on May 12, 2006 posting, Info On Pentagon Phone Surveillance Program Generates Legal and Political Ramifications, see today’s press release from Rep. Ed Markey, Letter to FCC Regarding the Legality of Telco Complicity in Phone Records Mining: Today Representative Markey sent a letter to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) requesting… Continue Reading
Comparison of Major Search Engines Ranks Their Safety
The Safety of Internet Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Ask), May 12, 2006, by Ben Edelman and Hannah Rosenbaum. “Abstract: We compare safety of leading search engines, using SiteAdvisor’s automated Web site ratings. We find most leading search engines similar in the safety of the sites they link to, though MSN is the safest… Continue Reading
EFF Reports Government Files Secret Motion to Dismiss AT&T Surveillance Case
Press release: “Early Saturday morning, the United States government filed a motion (32 pages, PDF) to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) class-action lawsuit against AT&T for illegally handing over its customers’ telephone and Internet records and communications to the National Security Agency. The government claims that its legal brief and two affidavits from senior… Continue Reading
Cybersecurity Enhancement and Consumer Data Protection Act of 2006
Cybersecurity Enhancement and Consumer Data Protection Act of 2006 (H.R. 5318), To amend title 18, United States Code, to better assure cyber-security, and for other purposes, introduced 5/9/2006, by Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner Jr. Continue Reading
