Researcher who demonstrated Indian evote machines can be compromised is arrested

The machines were developed by two state-controlled companies and outsiders were not allowed to attack them to test the security. An anonymous source provided Mr. Prasad a machine and he found ways to compromise it, and went on TV and talked about it. Police raided his home, he would not reveal the source that gave him the machine, so they arrested him on possession of stolen property.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/researcher-arrested-in-india

Have your skeleton scanned and be safe from terrorists and sex offenders! W00t!

It's easy to change your face with plastic surgery. It's possible to mutilate your fingerprints. It's much more difficult to alter your skeleton. It's rather personal to you: breaks, surgical screws, bone density and geometry. So someone with little regard to privacy and invasiveness decides that this would be a great way to identify terrorists!

Now we just have to get the terrorists to submit to body scans!

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/08/skeletal_identi.html

http://www.physorg.com/news201454875.html

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/24/1221259/Skeletal-Identification

Legislators Seek Answers From US Marshalls About Stored Body Scan Images

(August 20, 2010) US legislators want to know why US Marshalls Service stored images of body scans taken at a Florida courthouse. Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) sent a letter to the agency expressing their concern that citizens' privacy may have been violated.

The letter was also signed by Senators Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Thomas Carper (D-Delaware), Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia) and Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia). The images stored were not accessed until the agency received a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). The Marshalls service says the images are not available without an administrative password. Despite the Marshall Service assurance that details were fuzzy enough so that people could not be identified, even by gender, the legislators want to know why the images were saved, if there are any other locations where full body imaging technology is being used, whether images from those locations are being stored, and if so, why.

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100820_1563.php?oref=topnews

http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Press.MajorityNews&ContentRecord_id=8c23ed55-5056-8059-761a-a21459c5b48f