Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of what's wrong with e-voting

A critical flaw in Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of everything wrong with e-voting, security practice, and auditing firms | Continue reading

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Front-line programmers default to insecure methods

Front-line programmers default to insecure practices unless they are instructed to do otherwise | Continue reading

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France Demand Removal of 15M Project Gutenberg Books from Internet Archive

French officials call Project Gutenberg archive, 15 million ebooks, Grateful Dead recordings and Prelinger Archive "terrorism," demands removal from Internet Archive | Continue reading

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No food on weekends and ice-cold baths:Twitter’s Jack Dorsey’s “wellness” habits

No food on weekends and ice-cold baths: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's 11 "wellness" habits | Continue reading

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Most browsers eliminating option to turn off “hyperlink auditing”

Most browsers -- except Firefox and Brave -- are eliminating the option to turn off surveilling "hyperlink auditing" | Continue reading

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93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs

Most paint-spatters are valid perl programs | Continue reading

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News organizations have all but abandoned their archives

News organizations have all but abandoned their archives | Continue reading

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Lest ye forget how 'The A-Team' is

Lest ye forget how awesome 'The A-Team' is | Continue reading

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Former Mozilla CTO was detained at US border and threatened with false charges

Former Mozilla CTO was detained at US border and told he had no right to a lawyer | Continue reading

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Google says it won't support open source DRM in HTML

After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations | Continue reading

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Article 13 will wreck internet because MEPs accidentally pushed the wrong button

Article 13 will wreck the internet because Swedish MEPs accidentally pushed the wrong voting button | Continue reading

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Record companies sue Charter, claiming its high-speed internet fuels piracy

Record companies sue Charter because providing high-speed internet contributes to piracy | Continue reading

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Chinese censors incinerate entire run of a kickstarted RPG sourcebook

Chinese censors incinerate entire run of a kickstarted Call of Cthulhu RPG sourcebook | Continue reading

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Key net neutrality vote Tuesday: The whole Internet is watching

Key net neutrality vote Tuesday: The whole Internet is watching | Continue reading

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Rebooting UUCP to Redecentralize the Net

Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net | Continue reading

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Chelsea Manning is being held in prolonged solitary confinement\

Chelsea Manning is being held in prolonged solitary confinement, a form of torture | Continue reading

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Man Stole $122m from Facebook and Google by Impersonating Quanta

Man stole $122m from Facebook and Google by sending them random bills, which the companies dutifully paid | Continue reading

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A proposal to stop 3D printers from making guns is a perfect parable of everything wrong with information security

A proposal to stop 3D printers from making guns is a perfect parable of everything wrong with information security | Continue reading

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Breakthrough programmable computer made from DNA running chemical software

Breakthrough programmable computer made from DNA running chemical software | Continue reading

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Wireless vul in Medtronic defibrillator implant allow remote shocks and shutdown

Wireless vulns in Medtronic's implanted defibrillators allow remote shocks, shutdown, denial-of-service battery attacks and data theft | Continue reading

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Two arrested for hiding cameras in motel rooms and charging for livestreams

Two arrested for hiding cameras in motel rooms and charging for access to livestreams | Continue reading

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Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 | Continue reading

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