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John Ehrlichman^∇: [c00207] On the health business–

President Nixon: Yeah.

Ehrlichman: We have now narrowed down the Vice President’s [Spiro Agnew^∇] problems on this thing to one issue.

President Nixon: Yeah.

Ehrlichman: And that is whether we should include these health maintenance organizations like Edgar Kaiser’s Permanente thing. The Vice President just cannot see it. We tried 15 ways from Friday to explain it to him and then help him to understand it. He finally says, “Well, I don’t think they’ll work, but if the President thinks it’s a good idea, I’ll support him a hundred percent.”

President Nixon: Well, what’s the judgment?

Ehrlichman: Well, everybody else’s judgment, very strongly, is that we go with it.

President Nixon: All right.

Ehrlichman: And he’s the one holdout that we have in the whole office.

President Nixon: Say that–I’d tell him I have doubts about it, but I think that it’s . . . Now, let me ask you . . . now you give me your judgment. You know I’m not too keen on any of these damn medical programs.

Ehrlichman: This . . . let me, let me tell you how I [unclear]–

President Nixon: [Unclear.]

Ehrlichman: This is a–

President Nixon: I don’t [unclear].

Ehrlichman: –private enterprise one.

President Nixon: Well, that appeals to me.

Ehrlichman: Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason that he can do it–I had Edgar Kaiser come in talk to me about this, and I went into it in some depth. All of the incentives are toward less medical care, because–

President Nixon: [Unclear.]

Ehrlichman: –the less care they give them, the more money they make.

President Nixon: Fine. [Unclear.]

Ehrlichman: [Unclear] and the incentives run the right way.

President Nixon: Not bad. [c00339]

Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.

The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith described its use to the 350 law-enforcement experts attending a company conference Monday.

The device contains 150 commands that can dramatically cut the time it takes to gather digital evidence, which is becoming more important in real-world crime, as well as cybercrime. It can decrypt passwords and analyze a computer’s Internet activity, as well as data stored in the computer.

Take a look at this screenshot.

But you can guess if that worked, right? Click here to check your guess

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In a principled and practical statement, Rep. Kucinich said what a growing number of progressives have realized as we’ve watched real health care reform be compromised again and again.

During the debate, when the interests of insurance companies would have been effectively challenged, that challenge was turned back. The “robust public option” which would have offered a modicum of competition to a monopolistic industry was whittled down from an initial potential enrollment of 129 million Americans to 6 million. An amendment which would have protected the rights of states to pursue single-payer health care was stripped from the bill at the request of the Administration. Looking ahead, we cringe at the prospect of even greater favors for insurance companies.

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People like Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader and Michael Moore have been made pariahs by establishment Democrats. They have all been marginalized and made fun of…but check their records. They have been considered ‘fringe’ because they are telling us the truth about corporate abuses of power long before most of the rest of us catch up to the reality of what’s happened.

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iPhone owners in Australia awoke this weekend to find their devices targeted by self-replicating attacks that display an image of 1980s heart throb Rick Astley that’s not easily removed.

The attacks, which researchers say are the world’s first iPhone worm in the wild, target jailbroken iPhones that have SSH software installed and keep Apple’s default root password of “alpine.”