It’s another Thursday, and here’s another week of tech talk with Mark Starling and the First News 570 crew. This week, Oracle and Google continue their fight over APIs, the Election Cyber Surge fights hackers, and US students suffer at the hands of broadband. You can listen to Mark and I point and laugh while talking about the wild and crazy technology world every Thursday morning, LIVE at 6:43am Eastern.
VOLUNTEERS HACK AGAINST HACKERS THREATEN US ELECTION
Everyone is pulling out all the stops for 2020 Presidential Election. Volunteer counter-hacking group, Election Cyber Surge, has signed on 200 volunteers to check voting machine security, protect against leaked voter registration lists, and combat misinformation campaigns. The organization is led by the University of Chicago’s Cyber Policy Institute. The leaders of the Election Cyber Surge are aware there are multiple threats to the election, but are working behind the scenes to de-escalate situations and notify the powers that be.
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