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October 27, 2006
My congressman is a dope again (Updated)
In the past I figured that Ed Markey, the congressman who represents my one-party district in Massachusetts, was fairly savvy about technology issues, so in spite of his general left-liberalism there was at least one positive feature about him. Well, I can't be so positive about that any more.
After a researcher at Indiana University drew attention to a weakness in airport security, Markey (D-MA) didn't thank him for performing a public service, but called for his arrest. Now, this does give Soghoian some extra publicity, which serves his purpose, but really it's not a good idea for public officials to give out such a message as Markey (D-MA) is giving: that public ignorance about security weaknesses should be maintained. The public is more likely to approve security improvements and their costs if they know that the changes really are needed.
Update: As the folks at BoingBoing report, the congressman (D-MA) has seen the error of his ways, after getting complaints from tech-industry constituents like myself.
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October 23, 2006
Big "sorry"
Sorry for the downtime, folks: the stblogs.org server was knocked down by a power failure three days ago, and since I was away on vacation I wasn't able to correct the problem until today. We're back now.
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