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- The New, Terrifying, No-Electronics US Flight Security Rules http://gizmodo.com/5434592/no-electronics-allowed-during-international-flights 58 comments
- Security Flaw Impacts Electron-Based Apps https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/security-flaw-impacts-electron-based-apps/ 91 comments programming
- Texas Works To Create A More Secure Electronic Voting System https://www.npr.org/2018/05/10/609979541/texas-works-to-create-a-more-secure-electronic-voting-system 8 comments politics
- Airline Electronics Ban Is Protectionism, Not Security http://www.pcmag.com/commentary/352511/airline-electronics-ban-is-protectionism-not-security 5 comments politics
- Apple working on how to securely present electronic ID wirelessly https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/08/apple-working-on-how-to-securely-present-electronic-id-wirelessly 89 comments apple
- How Estonia Secures Its Electronic Elections From Kremlin Attacks https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/11/how-estonia-secures-its-electronic-elections-kremlin-attacks/152582/?oref=defenseone_today_nl 4 comments politics
- How your electronic DNA could be the secure login of the future http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/18/how-your-electronic-dna-could-be-the-secure-login-of-the-future 4 comments technology
- Invisible 'Keyhole' Security Developed With Printable Electronics https://interestingengineering.com/invisible-keyhole-security-developed-with-printable-electronics 2 comments technology
- House chairman asks sergeant at arms to 'take action' after Republicans bring electronics to secure hearing https://thehill.com/homenews/house/467179-house-chairman-asks-sergeant-at-arms-to-take-action-after-republicans-bring 729 comments politics
- Experts Say Electronic Voting Machines Aren't Secure. So Travis County Is Designing Its Own. http://kut.org/post/experts-say-electronic-voting-machines-arent-secure-so-travis-county-designing-its-own 4 comments linux
- Homeland Security Approves Their Right To Search And Seize Your Electronics Without Suspicion http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2013/02/14/homeland-security-approves-their-right-to-search-and-seize-your-electronics-without-suspicion/ 15 comments law
- Department of Homeland Security: We Can Search and Confiscate Electronic Devices Based on a “Hunch” http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/06/05/department-of-homeland-security-we-can-search-and-confiscate-electronic-devices-based-on-a-hunch/ 3 comments politics
- Printing Ultra-Thin Circuits Into Banknotes Could Give Electronic Security to Paper Currency http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-12/stamping-ultra-thin-circuits-banknotes-could-make-even-paper-currency-electronic 5 comments technology
- Former Israeli airport security boss: electronics ban makes little sense http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-airlines-electronics-israel-iduskbn16t1k5 6 comments worldnews
- If ordinary bank ATMs can be made secure and reliable, why can't electronic voting machines? http://www.crypto.com/blog/atms_can_fail_too/ 5 comments politics
- Security experts say new electronic voting machines can be hacked http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/27/security-experts-say-new-electronic-voting-machines-can-be-hacked/ 3 comments politics
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security made it clear that border crossing officials could continue to search any device that can store electronic media without any suspicion of wrongdoing. http://www.pcworld.com/article/171101/dhs_clarifies_laptop_border_crossing_rules_what_you_need_to_know.html?tk=rss_main 5 comments reddit.com
- Ex-MI6 Boss: When It Comes To Voting, Pencil And Paper Are 'Much More Secure' Than Electronic Systems https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170104/08445036405/ex-mi6-boss-when-it-comes-to-voting-pencil-paper-are-much-more-secure-than-electronic-systems.shtml 14 comments politics
- Electronic Frontier Foundation publishes Secure Messaging Scorecard, only six apps pass the test http://www.techspot.com/news/58729-eff-secure-messaging-app-scorecard.html 25 comments privacy
- Electronic Frontier Foundation publishes Secure Messaging Scorecard, only six apps pass the test http://www.techspot.com/news/58729-eff-secure-messaging-app-scorecard.html 5 comments technology
- The UK's electronic eavesdropping and security agency has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world's biggest internet companies through a covertly run operation set up by America's top spy agency http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/07/uk-gathering-secret-intelligence-nsa-prism 20 comments europe
- A bunch of national security law professors run a remote control dogfighting contest - winning team uses mostly electronic attacks to defeat opponents http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/09/operation-stux2bu-layered-offense-and-defense-and-drone-cyberattacks/ 5 comments netsec
- Corporate voting machines are insecure, and so are our elections! Please support my petition to create a secure electronic voting system to protect voters and the democratic process. http://wh.gov/4qf 3 comments technology
- Pulse by Maeil Business News Korea: "Samsung Electronics secures new order for 3nm high-performance server chips" https://pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?no=776090&year=2023 5 comments hardware
- House of former focal person to Imran Khan on Digital @arslankhalid_m 's has been reportedly raided by Pakistani security services and all the electronic communication devices have been seized from the residence. https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1512951279710003201 2 comments pakistan
- The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration over its alleged practices of searching the electronic devices of passengers traveling on domestic flights https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/12/aclu-sues-tsa-over-searches-of-electronic-devices/ 8 comments technology
- SegWit would make it HARDER FOR YOU TO PROVE YOU OWN YOUR BITCOINS. SegWit deletes the "chain of (cryptographic) signatures" - like MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems) deleted the "chain of (legal) title" for Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) in the foreclosure fraud / robo-signing fiasco https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6oxesh/segwit_would_make_it_harder_for_you_to_prove_you/ 97 comments btc
- "Europe's growing army of robot workers could be classed as 'electronic persons' and their owners liable to paying social security for them if the European Union adopts a draft plan to address the realities of a new industrial revolution." http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-robotics-lawmaking-iduskcn0z72ay 375 comments worldnews
- TSA targets mobile phones and electronics in new security policies: direct flights to US will require passengers to show cellphones to security as authorities work to counter threat of explosives http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/06/tsa-cellphones-explosives-security-flights-us-bound 167 comments worldnews
- US network to scan workers with secret clearances: stung by internal security lapses, U.S. intelligence officials plan to use a sweeping electronic system to continually monitor workers with secret clearances http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-plans-scan-workers-secret-clearances 3 comments politics
- President Barack Obama's administration said on Friday it will keep one person in charge of both the National Security Agency spy agency and the military's Cyber Command, despite calls for splitting the roles after revelations about vast U.S. electronic surveillance operations. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/13/us-usa-nsa-review-idusbre9bc11n20131213?feedtype=rss&feedname=politicsnews 4 comments politics
- Newly disclosed U.S. government files provide an inside look at the Homeland Security Department's practice of seizing and searching electronic devices at the border without showing reasonable suspicion of a crime or getting a judge's approval http://bigstory.ap.org/article/new-details-how-feds-take-laptops-border-0 126 comments politics
- Germany nixes surveillance pact with US, Britain "Germany canceled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain on Friday in response to revelations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries' alleged electronic eavesdropping operations." http://news.yahoo.com/germany-nixes-surveillance-pact-us-britain-113557159.html 399 comments worldnews
- Privacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center to file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Monday asking it to stop the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program that collects the telephone records of millions of Americans. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/us/privacy-group-to-ask-supreme-court-to-stop-nsas-phone-spying-program.html?_r=0 13 comments politics
- "The [United States] Department of Homeland Security's civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation's borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever -- all in the name of national security." http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/electronics-border-seizures/ 23 comments law
- Apple's secret plan to join iPhones with airport security: Under Apple's patent, a traveler's phone would automatically send electronic identification to a TSA agent as soon as the traveler gets in line. http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/19/travel/mobile-airport-travel-apps/ 8 comments privacy
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the government Thursday demanding a judge order the feds to release documents allegedly showing the National Security Agency unlawfully surveilled Americans’ e-mails and telephone calls. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/eff-spy-documents/ 5 comments politics
- "The National Security Agency, the top U.S. electronic intelligence service, has joined a probe of the October [2010] cyber attack on Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) amid evidence the intrusion by hackers was more severe than first disclosed, according to people familiar with the investigation." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-30/u-s-spy-agency-said-to-focus-its-decrypting-skills-on-nasdaq-cyber-attack.html 3 comments business
- Germany bans electronic voting machines. Germany has joined 11 U.S. states, the Netherlands, and other countries which have banned electronic voting of one form or another.CIA expert: Electronic voting not secure. http://www.examiner.com/us-intelligence-in-national/cia-expert-electronic-voting-not-secure-germany-bans-electronic-voting-machines 124 comments politics
- "It was one of those bold policy decisions made by George 'The Decider' Bush. In 2005, to secure the US-Mexico border, Bush directed that an electronic 'virtual fence' be built to detect 'bad guys' trekking into our country. Of course...he corporatized the project turning it over to Boeing..." http://jimhightower.com/node/7080 5 comments politics