Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Politics -- All we Have to Fear is the Next 90 Days

Playbook. Kerry/Edwards release a 250 page book outlining their plan for the next four years -- if they are elected.

Hey if you believe campaign promises, maybe you'll buy anything. Hackers set up a fake web page to take campaign contributions from Kerry/Edwards supporters. Voters were directed to the website with fake e-mails that appeared to come from the Kerry camp. It also allowed the hackers to steal people’s identities. That sort of thing’s called "phishing.’ MSNBC reports on studies indicating phishing has allowed hackers to steal nearly $2 billion in the last year.

Prying into Politicians Personal Histories. Wanna find out what a candidate’s background includes? Has he served on a corporate board, was the company a defense contractor, did the company bilk taxpayers? Just some of the questions you can research thanks to links from Al Tompkins and the folks at the Poynter Institute. Tompkins has assembled a collection of links called "Places Journalists Should Go for Politics." More journalists should go there.

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