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September 27, 2020

A Texas County Clerk’s Bold Crusade to Transform How We Vote

Benjamin Woffford Wired

How Dana DeBeauvoir set off the biggest, weirdest, and most promising revolution in election technology since the 1800s.

Movie: The Imitation Game

January 2, 2015

The story of Alan Turing, British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the effort to crack the German Enigma Code, helping the Allies win WWII. After the war Turing was prosecuted by the UK government for homosexual acts.

December 23, 2013

Report: NSA Paid RSA to Make Flawed Crypto Algorithm the Default

Peter Bright, Bruce Schneier Ars Technica, Wired

Reuters' report suggests that RSA wasn't merely following the trends when it picked the algorithm and that contrary to its previous claims, the company has inserted presumed backdoors at the behest of the spy agency.

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