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Science and scholarship are under attack from all sides. To a large degree the lack of appreciation is due to a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of scientific inquiry.
An informal analysis of changes in configuration options and default settings in recent Windows operating systems reveals how security concerns have changed over time. The results are both reassuring and alarming.
Fact checking must be done as a public good, but it's pointless to direct the results at those who can't change their mind and won't change the subject. Our focus should be on developing a set of online tools to facilitate the fact-checking process and make it easily accessible to those who wish their truth straight up.
Is the recent report from the three-letter agencies on the alleged Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee evidence-based attribution or attributibabble?
The Oxford Dictionaries selected "post-truth" as the 2016 international word of the year. This is such a preposterous recognition from a heretofore august publication that I just can't allow it to pass in silence.
The real story behind alleged foreign interference in our election isn’t that it occurred—any impact on the outcome from Russian hacking and trolling was minimal—but that we set the standard for such activity and have no one but ourselves to blame.
Much has been made of the dark web's dangers, but democracy has more to fear from Citizens United and the global surveillance industry than Silk Road or Tor.
We catch up with computer scientist and voting machine guru Douglas Jones to get a deeper understanding of current challenges in electronic voting technology.
As the US presidential election draws near, many of us can expect to find ourselves face to face with an electronic voting machine. It's time to re-examine the integrity of these machines.
How can we prevent scholarly literature from being misrepresented? By reading and reacting to it. Nowhere is this more critical than with position papers that have the potential to influence government policies.
One of the more persistent Cold War memes, the so-called dictator's dilemma refers to a worldview in which technology is a threat to dictatorships and a beacon of prosperity to free societies. But is this a valid dichotomy?
A precise philosophical definition of science is as elusive as one for art. However, some candidates are clearly beyond the scope afforded by common sense and good taste. This specifically includes commoditized, dogmatic, approval-seeking, agenda-driven efforts that amount to nothing more than bogus science.
Secretocracy is an insidious, anti-democratic form of government sustained by secrecy and defined by an ill-informed body politic. Securocrats, and the military-industrial complex that feeds on them, increasingly use computing technology to prevent the electorate from accessing complete information.
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