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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

With its focus on hardware and software for public elections, VotingWorks is different from Adida’s previous electronic voting system efforts, including Helios , an online voting system Adida said is best used in closed elections like those for university-level student body governments or corporate boards of directors.

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How Wi-Fi router security has deteriorated since 2003

The Parallax

The majority of today’s popular Wi-Fi routers run the Linux operating system (which also powers Google’s Android ) with MIPS processors. CITL first detailed a major vulnerability in Linux with MIPS in a report it published alongside its December report on routers. Chart showing the D-Link DAP-2690 dropping ASLR in 2016.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

After the passage in 2016 of California Proposition 64 , which decriminalized marijuana and added millions to the rolls of those who had criminal records eligible to be expunged, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced a program for automatic expungement. Microsoft was founded in 1975, and its operating systems?—first