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Who says Politics doesn't pay and why can't I find clients with pockets this deep?

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2008-01-21 21:10:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...politics. Give me an independent politician who does not have to toe a party line and I'll show you a politician who has half a chance of being a decent advocate of the people I think one of the greatest wrongs that politicans commit is in their thinking of voters as idiots. I use the Washington Post article of 1/17/08 as a prime example....
 
Tags: zimmer, zimmer products, zimmer frames, million dollars, firm, firm deliver, zimmer stops, resolve kickback allegations, contracts
 
 
 
 
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Politics and technology

2008-03-27 00:00:00 by Mark Gibbs in Network World on Security
 
A potential thin wedge of censorship shows that politics and censorship are intertwined and inseparable
 
Tags: potential thin wedge, politics, censorship, inseparable
 
 
 
 
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Internet Censorship

2008-04-07 05:00:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...politics, practice, technology, legality and social effects of Internet filtering. There are three basic rationales for Internet censorship: politics and power; social norms, morals and religion; and security concerns Some countries, such as India, filter only a few sites; others, such as Iran, extensively filter the Internet. Saudi Arabia...
 
Tags: internet censorship, censorship, internet censorship measures, enable internet censorship, internet, prevent anonymous internet, internet access, global internet, net interprets censorship
 
 
 
 
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Ted Kennedy: a lifetime of achievement, regrets of a world that could have been

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2008-05-21 00:04:43 by HASH0x8b0b1b8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...politics on my blog. As I have said before, it is my blog and I can write what I want, but politics usually is just to controversial for me to write on. Upon hearing the terrible news about Ted Kennedy's malignant brain tumor, I was moved to write something, than thought twice about it and thought yet again. However, Ted Kennedy and his life...
 
Tags: ted kennedy, kennedy, remember ted kennedy, ted, john kennedy, bobby kennedy, bobby, bobby shortly, remember
 
 
 
 
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Telecom Amnesty Foes Lobby Obama Using Obama Tech

2008-06-30 21:52:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
...politics he's relied on to secure the Democratic nomination can sway him back to his original opposition to the spying bill, or if old-style politics will rule the day
 
Tags: senator barack obama, government warrantlessly spy, original opposition, democratic nomination, amnesty, telecoms sued, lobby, participatory politics, old-style politics
 
 
 
 
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UK Police Seize War on Terror Board Game

2008-08-15 06:50:02 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...politics kicks and terrorist states emerge Andrew said: "The terrorists can win and quite often do and it's global anarchy. It sums up the randomness of geo-politics pretty well In their cardboard version of realpolitik George Bush's "Axis of Evil" is reduced to a spinner in the middle of the board, which determines which player is designated...
 
Tags: world, world politics kicks, realpolitik george bush, player starts, player, geo-politics pretty, conceal, game sounds, cardboard version
 
 
 
 
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Refuse to be Terrorized

2007-12-21 07:26:09 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
I know nothing about the politics of this organization, but their "I am not afraid" campaign is something I can certainly get behind. I think we should all send a letter like this to our elected officials, whatever country we're
 
Tags: country, officials, politics, afraid, campaign, letter, organization
 
 
 
 
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Vote but Verify

2007-09-07 19:56:11 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...politics: All parties oxes have been gored at one time or another by voting fraud or rumors of fraud, so this does seem like an issue on which a consensus could form
 
Tags: all-electronic systems, systems, all-electronic, paper audit trail, all-electronic paperless approaches, security geek consensus, research topic, consensus, nist
 
 
 
 
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NY STAR: An accident waiting to happen

2006-03-02 22:37:31 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...politics is irritating too. Creating yet another take with one hand, give back with another program is inefficient, and clearly its primary purpose is to create an opportunity for attaching a politicians name to a tax cut, with extra discrimination making the program harder to kill Update 3/7/2006 see also: The public servants at the Ohio...
 
Tags: information, store information, income information, personal information, personal financial information, public, public record agency, public information, assessors
 
 
 
 
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Patrick Smith on Aviation Security

2008-01-11 13:47:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...politics, fear-mongering and a disconcerting willingness of the American public to accept almost anything in the name of "security." Conned and frightened, our nation demands not actual security, but security spectacle. And although a reasonable percentage of passengers, along with most security experts, would concur such theater serves no...
 
Tags: security, actual security, security zealots, security experts, security spectacle, expect street protests, airport security, expect, american public