Thursday, September 06, 2018

DOJ Warns It Might Not Be Able to Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers


DOJ Warns It Might Not Be Able to Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers - Motherboard: “…After more than a decade of headlines about the vulnerability of US voting machines to hacking, it turns out the federal government says it may not be able to prosecute election hacking under the federal law that currently governs computer intrusions. Per a Justice Department report issued in July from the Attorney General’s Cyber Digital Task Force, electronic voting machines may not qualify as “protected computers” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the 1986 law that prohibits unauthorized access to protected computers and networks or access that exceeds authorization (such as an insider breach)…”


*Novichok poisoning suspects are Russian spies approved by Moscow, May says
The two men suspected of the nerve-agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are Russian intelligence officers and their actions were approved at "a senior level of the Russian state", the British PM says.


40% of Americans struggle to pay for at least one basic need like food or rent MarketWatch






















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I believe in the Kafkaesque corridors of culture vulture powers ...

The latitude worker who can concentrate,
Lose himself in the hardest task,
Scrapes up time at double the rate,
Creating what? He doesn't ask.
Muscles are meant for heat and toil,
The eyes for precise measurement,
The voice for whispering contempt,
Listening, for the night bell's toll.
It takes a man to scrape a floor.
(God offers no alternative.)
He will go to bed drunk and sore,
Not knowing what it means to live.
The half-finished floorboards await
The restoration of their fate.

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