I can’t believe that anyone at the IOC is really surprised that the Chinese government did not keep their word about internet access during the games. Apparently even some IPs are blocked in the media center at the Games. I guess the government knows that the IOC really does not care about a true and free open Olympic Games. All about the dollars and the free perks.
Shocking but true about Chinese Gov
August 1st, 2008 — Net-news
UK overview article
February 21st, 2008 — Net-news
The BBC has a general online privacy overview article up on their website right now. The most interesting part of the article mentions that ;
the UK Information Commissioner’s Office is investigating why personal information remains on Facebook’s computers after users have deactivated their accounts.
The BBC article (located here) is based on a report from the UK website Which?. There article are more information including some information about Virgin Mobile. The Which? article is located here.
Ready for Super Tuesday
February 2nd, 2008 — online-security
With Super Tuesday past approaching you might want to dig through that stack of newspapers and find the January 6, 2008 New York Time Magazine. The cover story by Clive Thompson has some interesting insights into those computers that will help determine the democractic process.
Its an overview of the different computer based voting machines and how sometimes (how shocking) they actually crash and mess up. Are their safeguards for the democratic process when those motherboards flake out. Not always. A good read before Super Tuesday.