Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Happily, we’ll have no more hanging chads in this year’s presidential election. Less happily, there are a lot of very serious unknowns in the use of electronic voting machines. To date, these machines have proven problematic, and they may even be hackable. Let’s keep our fingers crossed AND our eyes open.
Category: Notes From The Electronic Cottage
A weekly feature on electronic technology as it affects everyday life with Jim Campbell. Broadcast on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, ME every Thursday at 7:30 AM.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/02/08
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Got your head in a cloud? How about your data? “Cloud Computing” is a new buzzword in the computing world. But what does it mean? What are its advantages? And how about disadvantages? Let’s take a listen.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/25/08
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
With the recently published policy for information searches at the U.S. Border, including searches of laptops and other electronic devices, many folks are wondering if there is anything that they can do to keep their
personal information personal when they go abroad. Let’s look at a few options, including encryption software such as TrueCrypt (www.truecrypt.org).
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/11/08
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/03/08
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
There are lots of places on the Web where you can find stuff you probably wouldn’t think you could find. Inogolo and Spock are just two of them. And on your radio dial, there’s a place where you can hear a lot of stuff you wouldn’t think you’d hear on radio – that place, of course, is WERU. To keep it (and this program) going, make a secure online pledge at www.weru.org.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/21/08
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Today, we take a few moments to answer some questions about the Electronic Cottage itself. Where does the name come from? Where is the program produced? How long does it take to produce? Then we get back to business and return to our discussion of the Customs and Border Protection policy on information searches of electronic equipment such as laptops and cell phones
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/14/08
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
As part of WERU’s 20 years in 20 days celebration, we return to October of 2003 for an edition on GPS, or Global Positioning Systems, which were just beginning to gain broad adoption at the consumer level. GPS is a great tool, but like all technology, it has its positive and negative applications. We look at few of them today since the issues raised in 2003 are still alive today.
Notes From the Electronic Cottage 8/07/08
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Do you like to travel outside the U.S. Do you carry a laptop or cell phone or iPod when you do? If so, you might want to think about what’s on your personal electronic device. Why? U.S. Customs and Border Protection has
recently released a policy document called “Policy Regarding Border Search of Information” that makes it clear that border agents can “search, review, retain, and share” pretty much anything on your computer or cell phone
without your permission and with absolutely no requirement of suspicion or probable cause of a crime. Take a listen.