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Voting: Low-Tech Is the Answer

There are three reasons why all-electronic voting machines are a bad idea: Transparency, recovery, and audit.

Avi Rubin - October 30, 2006 Similar items

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Putting Internet Security at Risk

A deal that gives VeriSign a de facto monopoly over Web registries is flawed and must include greater security.

October 23, 2006 Similar items

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Needed: A National Cyber Security Law

Paul Kurtz, head of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, says it's time for Congress to pass a law aimed at preventing security breaches.

Paul Kurtz - October 17, 2006 Similar items

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Hubris at HP—and Beyond

The cult of arrogance behind the Hewlett-Packard imbroglio pervades the business community and is bigger than any one scandal.

David H. Holtzman - October 11, 2006 Similar items

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Insecurity in Open Source

What open-source developers can learn about security and quality from—gasp—makers of proprietary software.

Ben Chelf - October 06, 2006 Similar items

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Embrace Your Inner Bad Boy

Our "advice columnist" tells an unidentified computer company to take the low road.

September 29, 2006 Similar items

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Software Isn't Complete Unless It's Secure

Developers need to make security a priority from the earliest stages of planning—and buyers should demand nothing less.

Bill Joy - September 26, 2006 Similar items

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Scientists Are Born, Not Made

Correcting the shortage of U.S. engineers means rethinking the way schools teach science, not just increasing funding for classes and teachers.

Greg Blonder - September 19, 2006 Similar items

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What HP Should Have Done

Past crises offer lessons for managing corporate tumult and resolving ethical dilemmas. Too bad Hewlett-Packard didn't pay better attention.

Kirk O. Hanson - September 18, 2006 Similar items

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Seek and Ye Shall Be Found

Search data stored by the likes of Google and AOL is a privacy timebomb. It's time for these Net giants to hit the delete key.

David H. Holtzman - September 06, 2006 Similar items

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Can Our Cities Cope with Crisis?

After Katrina and September 11, the inadequacies of disaster-response communications are apparent. Fortunately, some solutions are, too.

Greg Meffert - August 31, 2006 Similar items

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New Hope for Families With Genetic Risk

A new method for screening embryos is helping people at risk of having children with inherited disease make informed choices.

Rosie Barnes - July 31, 2006 Similar items

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Viewpoint: The Privacy Pirates

Corporate policies on the collection and management of personal data do precious little to protect your privacy.

David H. Holtzman - July 24, 2006 Similar items

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Lessons in Corporate Blogging

What your company can learn about keeping an online journal from the likes of Dell, Microsoft, and Apple.

Nicholas Carr - July 18, 2006 Similar items

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It's Time to Protect Students' Data

A third of all data leaks are at universities. Academia should be held to stricter record confidentiality standards.

Scott Olson - July 10, 2006 Similar items

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Succession Planning, the Microsoft Way

Bill Gates provides a model of how to arrange for executive changes at the highest level of a corporation.

Stephen Mader - June 27, 2006 Similar items

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The Real Disaster: Inadequate Preparation

Globalization's growing impact means disruptions in one place are felt far and wide. Few companies have sufficient strategies.

Kevin O'Marah - June 21, 2006 Similar items

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Internet Oversight: A Crucial Test

A pending agreement with VeriSign is anticompetitive and bad for consumers—and could feed foreign opposition to U.S. control of the Net.

Rick Boucher - June 19, 2006 Similar items

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Why Corporate Web Sites Stink

There's a raft of new tools for improving the way sites interact with users — but many businesses have yet to learn how to use them.

Peter Yared - June 13, 2006 Similar items

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Protect Me, Protect My Data

Companies that underestimate security threats to their records do so at their own peril. It can mean a loss of trust and of business.

Dan Warmenhoven - June 08, 2006 Similar items

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Getting the Drop on Domain-Name Abuse

A loophole in the process that assigns Web addresses not only aids those who play fast and loose with the rules, it's also hurting small businesses.

Bob Parsons - June 05, 2006 Similar items

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Sun's Big Open-Source Bet

Jonathan Schwartz could upend the company's business model to one that's dependent on software. But he has some big changes to make first.

Stuart Cohen - May 08, 2006 Similar items

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There's No Workforce Like Home

Want to help keep jobs in this country, serve customers better, and lower your costs? Telework lets companies tap an accomplished but underutilized talent pool.

Mary A. Naylor - May 02, 2006 Similar items

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Can Cell Phones Compromise Your Network?

Simply by carrying a mobile phone, employees may inadvertently be walking, talking network-security risks. Here's how companies can respond.

Mike Murray - April 13, 2006 Similar items

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Keeping Free Software Free

Next-generation computers are designed to restrict how you use them even before you buy them. What can the free software community do?.

Richard Stallman - March 28, 2006 Similar items

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