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Submission + - CIA says most voting machines can be hacked (mcclatchydc.com)

Submitted by ISoldat53 on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @11:32AM

ISoldat53 writes: "The CIA, which has been monitoring foreign countries' use of electronic voting systems, has reported apparent vote-rigging schemes in Venezuela, Macedonia and Ukraine and a raft of concerns about the machines' vulnerability to tampering." mcclatchydc.com

Feed NSA Spy Documents Stay Sealed (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @10:12PM

A federal judge rejects a bid by Wired News and other media outlets to unseal whistle-blower papers in a lawsuit over surveillance of Americans. In 27B Stroke 6.

Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong 330

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @09:34PM from the mean-time dept.

modapi writes "Google's wasn't the best storage paper at FAST '07. Another, more provocative paper looking at real-world results from 100,000 disk drives got the 'Best Paper' award. Bianca Schroeder, of CMU's Parallel Data Lab, submitted Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you? The paper crushes a number of (what we now know to be) myths about disks such as vendor MTBF validity, 'consumer' vs. 'enterprise' drive reliability (spoiler: no difference), and RAID 5 assumptions. StorageMojo has a good summary of the paper's key points."

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