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Credit to Author: Brian Varner| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000
Opinion: The fact that voter information is left on devices, unencrypted, that are then sold on the open market is malpractice.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:46:00 +0000
News of apparent mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats and CNN give way to a deluge of false reports, partisan finger-pointing, and bad-faith conspiracy theories online.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:06:20 +0000
Apparent mail bombs targeting Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN, and more all got caught before their final destination. Here’s how.
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Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:16:57 +0000
A migrant caravan traveling through Mexico is the latest news event to be weaponized online.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 21:20:42 +0000
Like so many other internet misdeeds, the notorious Triton malware appears to have originated in Moscow.
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Credit to Author: Clive Thompson| Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000
When considered as a form of tech, paper has a killer feature set: It’s intuitive, it doesn’t crash, and it doesn’t need a power source.
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Credit to Author: Brendan Koerner| Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000
A $1.50 wager on a “Call of Duty” match led to a fake 911 call reporting a violent hostage situation in Wichita. Here’s how it all went horribly awry.
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Credit to Author: Brendan Koerner| Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000
Journalist Brendan Koerner strikes up a jail-cell correspondence with a man charged with instigating a fatal shooting. “Only by peering into the abyss of human malice can we divine how we can muster the strength to forgive the truly lost,” he writes.
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