Archive for September, 2006

Have you ever taken a close look at your paper waste? How many things do you throw away that have your social security number on them? Bank account number(s)? What other personal information do you give away every time you take out the trash?
Identity thieves are onto you. They know where you keep your personal [...]

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This has got to be one of the worst examples of consumer fraud I have ever heard of. The car dealership, Cherry Hill Triplex in New Jersey, sold an elderly Kenneth Hammel a defective Kia Sedona, then sold him another, higher-priced, car when he brought the Kia back in for repairs. Apparently, they [...]

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I can’t find the decision online yet, but WCCO is reporting that the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld the district court’s finding that the red-light cameras were illegal under Minnesota law. From the article, it sounds like the Court of Appeals generally agreed with the district court.
From the article:
Writing for the appeals panel, [...]

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From the article:
Once used only by law students and lawyers, the yellow legal pad is now employed to a degree unrivaled in stationery. “End career as a fighter,” President Richard Nixon wrote on a legal pad in August 1974. Five days later, on the top of another one, he scratched, “Resignation Speech.” Jeff [...]

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From Freedom to Tinker comes this mind-boggling revelation:
The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened with a standard key that is widely available on [...]

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With election day two months away, it’s alarming to know that Diebold’s electronic voting machines are so vulnerable to attack. This post shows how, with less than a minute alone with a voting machin–such as any poll worker could engineer–an individual could easily sabotage an election by stealing votes from one candidate and [...]

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Minneapolis law firm Maslon, Edelman, Borman & Brand, is being shunned by two groups, the Twin Cities Diversity in Practice consortium and the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers. Apparently, the law firm headed by a woman, that is responsible for many landmark civil rights cases, and that was founded by Jewish lawyers who [...]

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Unlike Google and Yahoo, Wikipedia has decided to stand up for free speech, saying “take it or leave it” to China’s censors. From the article:
[Wikipedia founder Jimmy] Wales said censorship was ‘ antithetical to the philosophy of Wikipedia. We occupy a position in the culture that I wish Google would take up, which [...]

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Project Censored’s annual list of the 25 most significant stories that the mainstream media completely ignored:

#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
#3 Oceans of [...]

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Another reason to check your credit report regularly. From the article:
(…) According to Shirin Sinnar from the San Francisco branch of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, credit bureaus are listing the names of known terrorists on the credit reports of unsuspecting everyday, average citizens across the country. Sinnar indicated the names are [...]

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This is ridiculous. Typing confidential “do not distribute” into Google nets just under 70,000 hits. Apparently “confidential” and “do not distribute” don’t mean “do not post on a public website for all the world to see.” Unfortunate for anyone or any company whose private information is now permanently cached by Google.