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PRINCETON GEEK HACKS VOTING MACHINES IN SEVEN SECONDS

The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Computer Scientist Takes E-Voting Apart Computer Scientist Takes E-Voting ApartA Princeton computer scientist said Uncle Sam taught him how easy it can be to hack on the cheap. Professor and electronic-voting critic Andrew Appel spent only $82 to buy five $5,000 Sequoia electronic voting machines from a government auction Web […]

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Tracing a Climbers’ Footprints in Cyberspace

COULD THIS MOUNTAIN LOCATOR BEACON HAVE SAVED THE THREE OREGON CLIMBERS? Would the missing climbers have benefitted from carrying a personal locator beacon, like this $700 Terrafix unit, as some have suggested? Tracing a Climbers Footprints in Cyberspace – The Lede

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