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Public Transportation Apps’ APIs and Platforms: Maps, Scheduling, Trip Planning, and Mobile Ticketing

Altexsoft

So, we try to remember whether we’ve locked doors, turned off home appliances, checked bags (again!) We distinguish three types of public transportation apps: general purpose apps, apps by transport providers, and apps used for the hop-on hop-off tours. Hop-on hop-off tour apps. Scheduling and disruption tracking.

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Securing voting machines means raising funds

The Parallax

Security vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines, or EVMs, have been well-documented since at least 2005 , but officials often believed that the problems could be ignored because manufacturers said the machines couldn’t be connected to the Internet. The problem is that it involves cooperation in Congress. It’s this horrible Catch-22.”.

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The Worst Possible Day: U.S. Telecommunications and Huawei

The Cipher Brief

Thomas Donahue is a Cipher Brief expert and former Senior Director for Cyber Operations on the U.S. National Security Council Staff. His article was originally published by National Defense University Press PRISM. Policy must consider the worst possible day, not the routine day. space program of the 1960s. space program of the 1960s.