Politics Stories for 2009

Cyber-Security Czar To Be Named 139
Call To "Open Source" AIG Investigation 259
22 Million Missing Bush White House Emails Found 326
Cuba Jails US Worker Handing Out Laptops, Cellphones 400
Virtual Money For Real Lobbying 85
Three Lawmakers Ask For Enforcement Against Leak Sites 316
Data-Sifting For Timely Intelligence Still an Elusive Goal 131
Iranian Crackdown Goes Global 313
Scientists Step Down After CRU Hack Fallout 874
US Congressman Announces Plans To Probe Wikileaks 311
Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked 882
Aging Nuclear Stockpile Good For Decades To Come 160
NASA Willing To Team With China; Rumors of a Budget Cut 200
Obama Talks Internet Freedom, China Censors 312
Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 548
UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall 409
Genentech Puts Words In the Mouths of Congress Members 229
Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil 720
Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House 1698
Man Denied Right To Vote Because He Won't Use Computer 5
Chinese Bureaucrats Duel Over Right To Regulate WoW 128
Maryland Town Tests New Cryptographic Voting System 227
Attorney General Says Wiretap Lawsuit Must Be Thrown Out 493
Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning 227
ICANN Might Pre-Register gTLDs To Placate Critics 70
Lawmakers Caught Again By File-Sharing Software 203
Contest To Hack Brazilian Voting Machines 101
Open Source Voting Software Concept Released 121
Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released 406
Maldives Government Holds Undersea Cabinet Meeting 271
Democrats, Minority Groups Question Net Neutrality Push 200
Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize 1721
How Video Games Reflect Ideology 244
Pirate Party Unites In Australia 173
Math Indicates Pollster Is Forging Results 319
US Government Sets Up Online "App Store" 138
Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax 792
Risk Aversion At Odds With Manned Space Exploration 371
Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown 576
Can the Ares Program Be Salvaged? 245
ES&S To Buy Diebold, Blackbox Voting To Sue 175
Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System 495
Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows 653
Spammers Use Holes In Democrats.org Security 129
Ares Manager Steve Cook Resigns From NASA 153
Police 'Steal' From Unlocked Cars 38
FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality 343
British Video Recordings Act 1984 Invalid 340
Open Source Tech Used To Monitor Afghan Election 51
'Awful' Internet Rules Released 106
Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker 869
Japanese Political Candidates Go Dark Online 91
Why the UK Needs the Pirate Party 363
Voting Machine Attacks Proven To Be Practical 225
Twitter, Facebook DDoS Attack Targeted One User 205
Navigating a Geek Marriage? 1146
Microsoft Redefines "Open Standards" 325
"Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas 594
Feds May Soon Be Allowed To Use Cookies 181
EU May Allow US To Keep Snooping On European Bank Data 206
Formerly Classified Global Warming Spy Photos Released 791
Bars' Scanning of ID Violates BC Privacy Laws 198
Microsoft Agrees To EU Browser Ballot Screen 438
Recovery.gov To Get $18 Million Redesign 434
US Finalizes Stem Cell Research Guidelines 249
US, Russia Reach Nuclear Arsenal Agreement 413
Pirate Party Coming To Canada 394
What the US Can Learn From Europe's Pollution Credit System 425
The Hysteria of the Cyber-Warriors 150
In Canada, No Expectation of Privacy On the Net 206
Rhode Island Affiliates Banned From Amazon.com Sales 532
Senators Want To Punish Nokia, Siemens Over Iran 392
Canada Considering Online Voting In Elections 324
EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming 1057
The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists 232
US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill 874
Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon 419
Canadian Politicians Reverse Course On DMCA 95
Crowdsourcing Big Brother In Lancaster, PA 440
Siemens, Nokia Helped Provide Iran's Censoring Tech 280
How the Obama Copyright Policies Might Unfold 188
German Member of Parliament Joins Pirate Party 246
US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan 925
Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality 142
$1.9 Million Award In Thomas Case Raises Constitutional Questions 439
Newspaper Crowdsources 700,000-Page Investigation of MP Expenses 188
German Parliament Enacts Internet Censorship Law 273
Visualizing the Ideological History of SCOTUS 151
Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US 439
EU Fusion Experiment's Financial Woes Get More Concrete 173
The State of Iran's Ongoing Netwar 263
Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election 512
Climate Change Bill Includes IP Protections 236
Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" 838
NSA Ill-Suited For Domestic Cybersecurity Role 72
Senator Applauds Pirate Bay Trial, Chides Canada 526
$33 Million In Poker Winnings Seized By US Govt 465
Software Bug Adds 5K Votes To Election 239
Pirate Party Wins At Least One European Parliament Seat 674
Sequoia Disclosing Voting System Source To DC 100
Voting Drops 83 Percent In All-Digital Election 156
Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor's Cyberlaw Record 384
Dot-Communism Is Already Here 554
Australian Government Backing Down On Censorship 116
A Push To End the Online Gambling Ban 205
Internet Giving Rise To "Citizen Spies" 93
Freshman Representative Opposes "TSA Porn" 620
US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 1186
YouTube Video Sends Guatemala Into Crisis 405
KGB Material Released By Cold War Project, Available Online 94
Schneier Says We Don't Need a Cybersecurity Czar 173
French Assembly Adopts 3-Strikes Bill 343
DOJ Nixes Lax Policy, Hardens Antitrust Enforcement 249
In France, Fired For Writing To MP Against 3 Strikes 379
What's Getting Cut From Science Part of the Federal Budget 201
IP Enforcement Treaty Still Being Kept Secret 172
European Union Asks US To Free ICANN 503
Pirate Party Banned From Social Networking Site 354
Iranians Outwit Censors With Falun Gong Software 171
US Says Canadian Copyright As Bad As China's, Russia's 323
Using the Internet To Subvert Democracy 202
Should the US Go Offensive In Cyberwarfare? 276
Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat 1124
Second Swedish ISP Starts Scrubbing IP Addresses 92
Senate Bill Calls For Open Source Electronic Health Records 170
Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar 492
Obama Appoints Non-Tech Guy As CTO 252
Swedish Pirate Party Gains 3000 Members In 7 Hours 410
Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley 445
Louisiana Rep. Preps State Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids 422
Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US 1385
Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" 464
UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google 469
Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report 779
EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush 904
French Assembly Rejects Three Strikes Bill 129
Conviction of Sen. Ted Stevens Is Thrown Out 440
Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World 705
After Sweden's New Law, a Major Drop In Internet Traffic 337
New Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity 194
Anonymous Blogger Outed By Politician 300
UK Libel Law Is a Global Threat To Web Free Speech 363
GSA Signs Deals For Agencies To Use Social Media 14
German Police Raid Homes of Wikileaks.de Domain Owner 430
Obama Administration Promises "Thorough Review" of USTR Policies 78
Texas Legislature Considers Open Document Formats 149
Kentucky Officials "Changed Votes At Voting Machines" 494
Battlestar Galactica Hosted At the UN 252
Diebold Admits Flaw In Voting Software 281
UK Gov. Clueless About Own Internet Blacklist 203
Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers 740
Names of Advisors Cleared To Access ACTA Documents 186
Utah Senate, House Pass Jack Thompson's Game Sales Bill 200
Beyond Firewalls — Internet Militarization 83
Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest 390
Kremlin-Backed Nashi Admits Cyberattacking Estonia 181
Stimulus Avoids Serious Solutions For Health IT 184
US Cybersecurity Chief Beckstrom Resigns 117
Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads 695
Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists 597
Lawmakers Take Another Shot At Patent Reform 154
Smart Immigrants Going Home 770
Diebold Election Audit Logs Defective 256
UK Government Boosts Open Source Adoption 106
Obama Admin Fights Missing White House Email Lawsuit 345
1-Click Smacked Down Again, While Reexam Languishes 72
ICANN Responds To gTLD Plan Comments 119
Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs 857
Obama Anti-Trust Chief on Google the Monopoly Threat 364
Confusion Reigns As Analog TV Begins Shutdown 434
Will Obama's DOJ Intervene To Help RIAA? 546
New York Wants To Tax Internet Downloads 485
Net Neutrality Still Lives 102
Abraham Lincoln the Early Adopter 261
Open Source Study Included In US Stimulus Package 187
New Bill Would Repeal NIH Open Access Policy 223
Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras 366
Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College 1088
Federal Officials and YouTube Nearing a Deal 80
Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality 873
WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband 647
$2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill 658
Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers 623
UK Conservatives Slammed Over Open Source Stance 281
RIAA and BSA's Lawyers Taking Top Justice Posts 377
Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban 550
DC CTO Vivek Kundra Named To Top Federal IT Job 105
US Digital TV Switchover Delayed Until June 334
Jack Thompson Attacks DoD, ESA, GTA With Utah Bill 235
Senate Passes Another Bill To Delay Digital TV Transition 318
UK Proposes Broadband Expansion, Plus a Music and Film Tax 262
More Websites Offending Thai Monarchy Blocked 220
US House Kills Proposed Delay For Digital TV Transition 664
Obama Looking To Symantec CEO For Commerce 168
Microsoft Says H-1B Workers Among Those Losing Jobs 612
New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" 1235
$6 Billion Proposal For High-Speed Internet Grants 280
Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera) 365
Details Emerge On the 2006 Hacking of Congress 77
The ASP.NET Code Behind Whitehouse.gov 143
Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US 1656
The In-Progress Plot To Kill Google 234
Watch the Obama Inauguration With Moonlight 197
US CTO Choice Down To a Two-Horse Race 284
EHR Privacy Debate Heats Up 182
Electronic Medical Records, the Story So Far 136
MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events 589
Conflict of Interest May Taint DTV Delay Proposal 339
US Senate & House Create YouTube Channels 199
FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus 365
Solving Obama's BlackBerry Dilemma 374
Congressman Wants Health Warnings On Video Games 421
Rick Boucher To Chair House Internet Committee 55
Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch 589
Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post 766
Israel, Palestine Wage Web War 951
DTV Coupon Program Out of Money 591
Obama Moves To Link Pentagon With NASA 491