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Seattle tries out mobile voting

January 28, 2020 0 Comments Amazon web services, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technology, Government, Government IT, Microsoft, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800

About 1.2 million Seattle area voters will be able to use their smartphone, laptop or a computer at their local library to vote in a current election this year.

This will be the first-time online voting is available to all eligible registered voters of a district, according to a foundation behind the initiative.

The King Conservation District in Washington State is the third region in the U.S. to partner with the non-profit Tusk Philanthropies on a national effort to expand mobile voting, and Washington is the fifth state to pilot mobile voting in general. The King Conservation District is a state environmental agency that includes Seattle and 33 other cities, but it is separate from the King County Elections agency and operates under a different budget.

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MalwareBytes Security

Would ‘Medicare for All’ help secure health data?

November 26, 2019 0 Comments adam kujawa, amca, american medical collection agency, blue cross blue shield, breaches, cms, Cybercrime, department of health and human services, dominion national, Electronic Frontier Foundation, gao, Government, government accountability office, healthcare, healthcare.gov, heatlhcare, hhs, insurance, interoperability, malwarebytes, malwarebytes labs, medicare for all, online privacy act of 2019, os inc, prema blue cross, Privacy, security world, solara medical supplies, spectrum health lakeland, third-party services, wolverine solutions group

Credit to Author: Adam Kujawa| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:30:10 +0000

Beyond the usual arguments on this subject, we wanted to ask the question: Are there any security risks we need to be worried about if the United States were to switch to ‘Healthcare for All’ policies?

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ComputerWorld Independent

What the latest iOS passcode hack means for you

July 19, 2019 0 Comments Apple, Government, Mobile, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:25:00 -0700

A mobile device forensics company now says it can break into any Apple device running iOS 12.3 or below.

Israeli-based Cellebrite made the announcement on an updated webpage and through a tweet where it asserted it can unlock and extract data from all iOS and “high-end Android” devices.

On the webpage describing the capabilities of its Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) Physical Analyzer, Cellebrite said it can “determine locks and perform a full file- system extraction on any iOS device, or a physical extraction or full file system (File-Based Encryption) extraction on many high-end Android devices, to get much more data than what is possible through logical extractions and other conventional means.”

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