What I am reading today - 4/29/2014

NY Times - White House Details Thinking on Cybersecurity Flaws - Mr. Daniel wrote that the administration has now “established a disciplined, rigorous and high-level decision-making process for vulnerability disclosure.” (...) Mr. Daniel wrote that the administration has now “established a disciplined, rigorous and high-level decision-making process for vulnerability disclosure.”

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Hacker News - How Many People Are Wrongly Convicted?  Researchers Do the Math. - "There’s a more rigorous way to crunch the numbers, according to Gross’s new study. And that approach leads to a false conviction rate that was high enough to make me gasp — 4.1 percent."  (I read the study quickly and although I am not a statistician, or even very smart really, something seems wrong about it.  I am not buying their 4.1 percent number.  It could be lower, it could be higher but something in the back of my mind just tells me their methodology is flawed).