All told, The BRAD BLOG has found the insider sales totaled $665,512 in the week before the value of the company’s stock price would plunge in a massive sell-off triggered by a top financial analyst who had lowered the company’s rating from “buy” to “hold.”
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On Tuesday night Dan Rather Reports on HDTV presented “The Trouble With Touch Screens”.
It is well worth watching in its 64 minute entirety. Dan Rather deserves credit for this important and detailed report, however, there are inadequacies in the report that must be acknowledged as well – it is chilling, and devastating, yet mistitled, and incomplete.
Continue reading “Dan Rather Reports – The Trouble With Our Fear Of Facing The Facts”
“Any voting systems subject to manipulation and corruption should be reexamined and decertified,” [Kentucky Attorney General Greg] Stumbo said. “Faulty electronic voting systems jeopardize the public’s confidence in Kentucky’s elections.”Stumbo’s concerns are based on serious security flaws identified by experts in California, which led to emergency decertification of the voting machines by California.
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But the state has worries that hackers could breach the security of the optical scanners made by Texas-based Diebold Election Systems and used by 31 Florida counties.
If the Diebold machines are not certified Aug. 17, the only effect would be felt in Sarasota County
Update: Florida says Diebold corrected problem in record time.
Update: The Florida report on the Diebold corrections Not exactly a ringing endorsement:
We conclude by re-stating that this report does not contistitue a comprehensive security analysis. We limited our investigation to four specific flaws. In spite of repairs made, signigicant security vulnerablity continues to exist in the code base.