Freedom to Tinker... is your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technological devices you own.spammers gone wild- April 30, 2008 I&8217;m sure this sort of behavior is old news, but it&8217;s still really annoying. Starting last night and continuing as I&8217;m writing this, some annoying spammer has been forging my email address as the &8220;From&8221; line of a variety of spams. This is causing a staggering volume of backscatter, mostly of the &8220;Delivery Status Notification ...http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1285 Bizarre Undervote on iVotronic in France- April 30, 2008 In France, most municipalities use paper ballots in elections, but a few places have begun using DRE (direct-recording electronic) machines. Pierre Muller, a French computer scientist, has recently sent me a report of a malfunction by an ES&038;S iVotronic machine in a recent municipal election. In this spring&8217;s elections (and he believes this ...http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1284 voting ID requirements and the Supreme Court- April 29, 2008 Last week, I posted here about voter ID requirements. There was a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court on the same topic. It seems Indiana was trying to require voters to present ID in order to vote. Lawsuit. In the end, the court found that the requirement wasn&8217;t particularly onerous (the New York Times&8217;s ...http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1283 |