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A few links from today:

Bad government:

Free Government Information (free_govt_info) has a fairly depressing story on some of the problems inherent in e-government, specifically how grants.gov disenfranchises small institutions.
A teacher is convicted of four counts of injury to a minor after a spyware-infested computer in her classroom starts a porn hydra, and potentially faces up to 40 years in prison. The school's filter had an expired license, and even though a computer expert testified that the spyware came from a hairstyling site, and the prosecution didn't have the computer checked for spyware, the prosecutor convinced the jury that the teacher was actively searching for porn.
This one's a little older: FCC Releases, Withholds Ownership Documents.

Bad responses to bad government:

On the other side of the Big Brother coin, I don't see how wikileaks can possibly work. It seems to me that it would be filled with fraudulent unverifiable documents almost immediately. It's a nice idea, though. (Also, they have to stop using the word "Wikipedia".)

To balance this all out, a good government link from Free Government Information: The Consumer Action Website, a handy resource provided by the feds.

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