Archive for the ‘security’ Category
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
I used to work at a company that provided logistics and supply chain management solutions. I've also been to large outdoor events, and been an active participant in professional conferences and geekfests of various flavors. Prompted by a disaster I ran into yesterday, I'm sharing some tips I've learned along ...
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
An ACLU contact emailed me about a possible problem in Maryland of some electronic votes for Republicans being selected as votes for Democrats by the machines, against the voters' wishes. This reminded me to write up my experience of voting this year. I've written before about problems I ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Nobody's called me yet, but I'm on standby to act as a closing judge in a special election in Maryland tonight (Maryland seems to have these from time to time, no big deal; there was one in April, this one for a vacancy on the county council, another one coming ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
As I mentioned last month, I took training near the end of January to be a Closing Judge for the Maryland Primary Election. This is a new position Maryland has instituted to assist the Chief Judges with shutting down the voting units at the end of an ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
As a configuration manager, I have found unapproved software changes checked in by accident, by miscommunication, and in one unfortunate case, by malice. The more tightly integrated the change-tracking software was with the version control software, the easier it was to catch these errors, but in some cases the ...
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