Any election in any country (if connected to the
Internet at any point) is hackable.
Why the
2018 Midterms Are So Vulnerable to Hackers
The first primary of the 2018 midterm elections,
in Texas, is barely eight weeks away. It’s time to ask: Will the
Russian government deploy “active measures” of the kind it used
in 2016? Is it possible that a wave of disinformation on Facebook
and Twitter could nudge the results of a tight congressional race in,
say, Virginia or Nevada? Will hackers infiltrate low-budget
campaigns in Pennsylvania and Nebraska, and leak their e-mails to the
public? Will the news media and voters take the bait?
By most accounts, the answer is likely to be
yes—and, for several reasons, the election may prove to be as
vulnerable, or more so, than the 2016 race that brought Donald Trump
to the White House.
The future, for my Computer Security students.
Key trends
shaping technology in 2017
Oil just got a bit more expensive. Interesting
that the Treasury released the satellite images. Didn’t know they
had spy satellites. It was South Korean oil, which must have made
the South even madder!
South Korea
seizes ship it claims transferred oil to North Korea
South Korea has seized a Hong Kong-registered ship
that allegedly transferred oil to a North Korean vessel in violation
of United Nations sanctions.
The South Korean
Foreign Ministry said the Lighthouse Winmore left the port of Yeosu
in South Korea carrying refined oil which was then transferred to a
North Korean ship in international waters on October 19.
The
US Treasury Department released satellite imagery in
November of two ships allegedly performing an illegal ship-to-ship
transfer in international waters on the same day.
A good summary of the Statistical tools in Excel.
Global Warming! Global Warming! Perhaps it is
not ‘settled science.’
Earth Might
Go Through a Mini Ice Age During the Next Decades (Study)
At the moment, the main worry
of the environmentalists is the constantly increasing temperatures.
However, a team of researchers from Northumbria University discovered
that a wave of coldness might soon hit our planet. This means it’s
possible that Earth might pass through a mini ice age period, when
main rivers could get frozen.
To reach this conclusion,
the researchers have performed a simulation of how the magnetic waves
of the Sun will evolve for the next decades. Judging from the
results, it seems the global temperatures on our planet might start
going down in 2021. It’s not the first time when something like
this would happen, so researchers know what to expect.
The sudden drop of temperatures would lead to a
mini ice age, also called the Maunder minimum. This is a reference
to a previous cold period which occurred between 1646 and 1715, when
famous rivers, like Thames flowing through London, ended up frozen.
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