Congressional Group Agrees With Apple On Encryption
The Verge reported this week about the year-end-report published by the House Judiciary Committee’s Encryption Working Group. Apple and other tech companies will be pleased with the report. It acknowledges requiring a backdoor to assist law enforcement would weaken overall security. Law enforcement officials have maintained they need a backdoor to allow them to get into encrypted devices. […]
A Merry Bitcoin Christmas
If you purchased bitcoin one year ago today at $434, you would have seen a 100% rise. As of this writing on Thursday, December 22, 2016, one BTC$ is worth $868. The total value of all outstanding Bitcoin is now $14 billion, a small part of the world economy, but growing. Experts have different opinions […]
Blue Mesa and Diabetes
Diabetes is a life-long disease affecting how your body handles glucose, a kind of sugar, in your blood. Type 1 diabetes is genetic and the exact cause is not well understood. Most diabetes is type 2, and 27 million people in the U.S. are living with it. Nearly 90 million have prediabetes. This means their blood glucose is not normal, […]
Wisconsin Election Recount: Why We Need Internet Voting
The Wisconsin recount effort did not have any effect on the outcome. It did confirm a lot of what I wrote in Election Attitude – How Internet Voting Leads to a Stronger Democracy. The naysayers are concerned about the integrity and accuracy of using Internet voting. They refuse to compare it to the paper based […]
Hacker and Hacking or Hacked?
Quest Diagnostics announced in November its patient portal was hacked. The hit exposed the personal information of 34,000 people. Laboratory results from blood tests were included. Quest joins the list of Sony, Anthem Blue Cross, the Democratic National Committee, and many others who have been hacked. Millions of consumer records have been exposed. All of these were […]