Senate GOPs Pilfer Dems Confidential Computer Files; Easing of Internet Regulations Challenges Surveillance Efforts; Northwest Airlines Shared Passenger Data; Pentagon Online Voting Blasted

GOP staff members of Senate Judiciary Committee infiltrated opposition computer files from spring of 2002 until at least April 2003. GOP staff exploited computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to reduce regulations over some Internet services have come under intense criticism from officials at law enforcement agencies who say their ability to monitor terrorists and other criminal suspects electronically is threatened. Pentagon’s new online voting system is vulnerable to tampering and should be shut down, scientists reviewing the program say.”]

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