Secure messenger app Signal fought government and kept privacy promises
After fighting a gag order, Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Open Whisper Systems, went public with details of a federal…
Google Pixel: What would Steve Jobs do?
Google may have killed the Android industry yesterday, introducing “Pixel-first” features and taking on its biggest partner, Samsung, at the…
Hacked voter registration systems: A recipe for election chaos
How do you disrupt the U.S. election? Hacking a voter registration database could very well do just that. Imagine thousands…
Review: TensorFlow shines a light on deep learning
What makes Google Google? Arguably it is machine intelligence, along with a vast sea of data to apply it to.…
Panasonic has a technology for transmitting data by human touch
Panasonic has developed a data transmission system that can exchange information through human touch. The prototype human body communication device…
Hacking an election is about influence and disruption, not voting machines
Every time there’s an election, the topic of hacking one comes to the surface. During a presidential election, that conversation…
One election-system vendor uses developers in Serbia
Voting machines are privately manufactured and developed and, as with other many other IT systems, the code is typically proprietary.…
If the election is hacked, we may never know
The upcoming U.S. presidential election can be rigged and sabotaged, and we might never even know it happened. This Election…
Q&A: The myths and realities of hacking an election
Election hacking has become a key topic during this year’s presidential elections, more so now that candidates and voters are…
5 ways to improve voting security in the U.S.
With the U.S. presidential election just weeks away, questions about election security continue to dog the nation’s voting system. It’s…