del.icio.us links for 2005-11-29

• Fuzzy logic behind Bush's cybercrime treaty | Perspectives | CNET News.com: If the U.S. and Russia ratify it, President Vladimir Putin would be able to invoke the treaty's powers to unmask anonymous critics on U.S.-based Web sites and perhaps even snoop on their e-mail correspondence. [via Politech] (anonymity crime declan evil liberty politics security)
• Sony BMG's Costly Silence: "If [Sony] had woken up and smelled the coffee when we told them there was a problem, they could have avoided this trouble," says Mikko H. Hypponen, F-Secure's director of antivirus research. (cd copyright drm evil music security sony)
• Shitcanned: CNN.com - Vote topples Canadian government - Nov 28, 2005: After months of political instability, the government of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin fell Monday evening when three opposition parties united to topple him with a no-confidence vote in the House of Commons. (canada news politics)
• CNN.com - Ex-Powell aide: Was U.S. fooled? - Nov 29, 2005: "You begin to speculate, you begin to wonder -- Was this intelligence spun? Was it politicized? Was it cherry-picked? Did in fact the American people get fooled? I'm beginning to have my concerns." [Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff for Colin Powell] (bush dickcheney evil iraq politics us war)
• United States vs. Deborah Davis :: home: One morning Deb was riding the bus to work, when a security guard demanded that every passenger show their ID. Deb, having done nothing wrong, declined. She was arrested and charged with federal criminal misdemeanors after refusing to show ID on demand. (evil liberty news politics privacy security sploid terrorism)
• Sploid: Pope bans gay priests: In the first major ruling by the current pope, Josef "Benedict XVI" Ratzinger, men with "deep-seated" homosexual tendencies will be kept from joining the priesthood, while homosexuals already hiding under the robes won't face expulsion or discipline. (gay news religion sploid)
• Journo fired over rigged Mercedes brake tech test | The Register: A failed test of Mercedes' new radar braking system that resulted in a three-car pile-up last week has been exposed as a sham for the benefit of television that went horribly wrong. Specht conspired to brake manually, faking the effects of the system. (car evil germany mercedes news transportation)
• Vice President's Office Keeps Travel Expenses Under Wraps: Open-government advocates say that Vice President Cheney is to executive branch secrecy what darkness is to the night. (dickcheney evil news politics sploid us)