Voting machines used in Virginia and Pennsylvania allowed election-rigging via wifi, for anyone that could crack the machine's WEP password.

To make it even easier, they used the password "ABCDE". But that is the icing on the cake. There are programs that reliably guess WEP passwords. No matter what password they had chosen, the machine would still have been vulnerable to anyone with some expertise.

Today's voting computers might have a little better security, but that doesn't mean they can be trusted. Even if the security is enough to thwart random passers-by, that does not mean it will stop people from the company that made the machine, or people from the election authority, from rigging the election undetectably.

Virginia has decertified this machine, but is the replacement good enough for your elections? The proper criteria are more than a little more strict.

Even if the computer's security isn't so weak that outsiders can crack it, that doesn't mean you can trust it. The manufacturer might rig the election; the election authority might rig the election.

The Class War party aims to represent working-class Britons whom Labour has abandoned.

I don't think that class war is inevitable; but when the rich start one, as they have done in Britain and the US, the rest had better get organized to defeat them.

China plans to test Tibetan monks on their "patriotism". I don't suppose this means patriotism for Tibet.

An Australian court made ISPs help a film company bully people who shared copies of a film.

Sharing copies of any published work should be legal; governments that aid the publishers' War on Sharing are doing evil.

Libya, as a failed state, is generating the usual bad results of failed states in regions of Muslim population: more radicalism and more bloodshed.