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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

Adida’s new company, which he publicly announced at the Context Conversations event here Monday evening, which The Parallax co-sponsored, is the nonprofit VotingWorks.

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How Wi-Fi router security has deteriorated since 2003

The Parallax

The Cyber Independent Testing Lab , a nonprofit organization that focuses on consumer cybersecurity, published research in December demonstrating how 28 home wireless routers fail to use even basic security techniques. All major router vendors shipped fewer routers with firmware sporting ASLR protections in 2018 than in 2012, he said.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It can also apply to large companies, governments, and even nonprofits. Developers, no longer able to see opportunity in the personal computer, shifted their attention to the internet and to open source projects like Linux, Apache, and Mozilla. The strategic use of blitzscaling isn’t limited to startups.