Bug bounty platform HackerOne severed ties with Medici Ventures-backed Voatz, the blockchain-based mobile voting app for breach of partnership standards. The removal cuts off Voatz’ access to HackerOne’s network of “ethical hackers” who trade their expertise in finding code faults for cash. HackerOne partners with corporations interested in shoring up potential security vulnerabilities. Across 1,800 total relationships and eight years, though, it’s never before kicked a […]
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As the coronavirus pandemic escalates, late night comic Jimmy Kimmel asked former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden if President Donald Trump can “postpone the election,” and Biden had a very direct answer. The Jimmy Kimmel Live host has been taping short segments from home, including a remote interview with Biden on Thursday that featured some lighter moments, but mainly focused on the […]
Singapore’s government said on Wednesday it was not ruling out holding a general election during the coronavirus outbreak in the city-state, saying strong leadership was needed in a crisis. Singapore, which must hold a ballot by early 2021, revised its electoral boundaries earlier this month, in a move typically seen as a precursor to calling a vote. Some opposition parties have urged against an election due […]
As states postpone voting in party primaries to comply with new social distancing guidelines enforced by the federal government to flatten the curve to slow down the spread of Covid-19, questions are starting to arise that maybe, President Trump will use the pandemic crisis to delay the 2020 election. As of Tuesday morning, at least 43,499 people across every state, plus Washington, D.C., and three U.S. territories, […]
Poland will impose further constraints on citizens to prevent the spread of coronavirus including a lockdown, with leaving home only allowed if justified, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday. “We are doing so to prepare for the increased wave of infections,” Morawiecki told reporters. The government will also limit gatherings and the number of people allowed to travel on public transport at one time, in […]
Holding a nationwide election during an epidemic may not seem like the wisest move, but France went along with it. Fast forward a week, and some people who made the voting possible report they have contracted the coronavirus. The first round of municipal elections in France took place on March 15, even as the government was shutting down non-essential public venues and calling on people to […]
On a warm fall evening in late 2018, I received a message on Twitter from a group of self-described “anonymous hackers” who claimed they’d swiped Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s database. “We are like hundreds of others, but we are the one and only who got the Special Counsel Mueller database,” the message read, busted English and all. The self-described hackers claimed they’d tapped into a local […]
India blocked roads in Kashmir on Thursday after the insurgency-torn region reported its first case of coronavirus. The development comes as several other parts of the country imposed restrictions on public gatherings in attempts to prevent the spread of epidemic. Dozens of people in Kashmir told Reuters they had been prevented from leaving their neighborhoods on Thursday because roads were blocked by police and paramilitary units. […]
Welcome to politics in a time of pandemic, when elections are as complicated as everything else. Voting in Illinois and Florida, both called as soon as polls closed for Biden, started just hours after the president let go of his two-month long delusion that the virus was a hoax designed to hurt his reelection—reportedly after Tucker Carlson told him it was real and an aide showed […]
Federal prosecutors are dropping charges against the parent company of Russia’s infamous troll farm, saying that pursuing the case isn’t worth the risk of disclosing classified secrets to the Russian intelligence-linked firm. In a motion filed late Monday, prosecutors argued that the government should drop conspiracy charges against Concord Management because the “balance of equities has shifted” in seeking justice against the company. Concord Management, owned […]
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Psychologist Robert Epstein says that Big Tech is planning to use “subliminal methods” in the upcoming election that could shift up to 15 million votes and cost Trump the presidency. After the 2016 presidential election, Epstein surmised that search engine bias shifted 2-3 million votes in Hillary Clinton’s favor, and he warns that the number in 2020 could be five […]
While you’re busy trying to figure out whether the sudden trend of #QuarantineAndChill means you should budget for the purchase of baby presents in, oh, about nine months, we’re contemplating the other viral matter du jour: can President Donald Trump use the Coronavirus to delay the November election and remain in office longer? The answer, simply, is that no, he can’t. The conspiracy theory was likely […]
The novel coronavirus and the 2020 Democratic primary may be on a collision course, with increased fears about COVID-19 becoming more prevalent ahead of a crucial day of voting. Illinois, Arizona, Florida and Ohio are all set for an election day Tuesday with governors in each state having already declared emergency measures because of the virus. Officials are now balancing assuaging health concerns while encouraging available […]
A new poll has revealed that a broad national unity government is the most popular option amongst Israelis, but a plurality also believe that a fourth election is inevitable, reported the Jerusalem Post. According to the poll, published by Israel Hayom newspaper today, 31 per cent of respondents said they preferred a broad unity government (i.e. Likud, Blue and White, and other parties from across the […]
An obviously fallacious meme that purports to show a doctor downplaying coronavirus fears is spreading across the right-wing internet, convincing some Trump supporters that the coronavirus is just a hyped-up election year trick. Despite being easy to disprove, the meme has won plenty of prominent adherents, including talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and mixed martial arts star Tito Ortiz. In its most popular form, the meme […]
Every four years, ruling elites aligned on either side of the two-party duopoly choose their most important political official, the president, to defend and protect their interests. Ordinary Americans are taught that the electoral process is a shining example of democracy at work. No other elected politician in the United States is more mythologized than the American president. George Washington couldn’t tell a lie. Abraham Lincoln […]
What’s on the line in the 2020 election? Nothing less than “civilization as we know it” — according to the most powerful Democrat in America. Speaking at a forum on the campus of Northeastern University Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spelled out, in plain terms, what she believes to be the stakes of November’s election. “This election is a very important election,” Pelosi said. “In […]
It would appear that two things have sparked fear in President Trump’s heart this morning: 1) The prediction markets are now betting on a Democrat win in November… 2) And Trump knows that any meaningful fiscal policy juice to rescue stocks (oh yeah and the economy) will take weeks if not months if ever to achieve (and as we noted previously, may corner Trump into rolling […]
Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) has become the latest former contender in the 2020 Democratic primary to rally behind former Vice President Joe Biden. Harris released a video message on Sunday, confirming she will endorse Biden in the 2020 election. “I believe in Joe. I really believe in him and I have known him for a long time. One of the things we need right now is […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday victories in 10 out of 14 state primaries caused shock waves not only in the United States, but in Russia. State media there have been confidently predicting the Democratic Party’s nomination of Bernie Sanders, which would lead, they are sure, to the re-election of their favorite, President Donald J. Trump. Joe Biden’s win in South Carolina gave those Russian […]
Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, They’re kidding, right? Joe Biden? The former vice-president and US champeen influence grifter came back from the dead this Super Tuesday to save the Democratic Party from Bernie Sanders Venezuelizing what’s left of America (after you subtract our awesome debt loads). Things that come back from the dead, of course, are generally not high-functioning, for instance: zombies. Isn’t that exactly what the […]
Authored by John Solomon via JustTheNews.com, A Ukrainian court has ordered an investigation into whether Joe Biden violated any laws when he forced the March 2016 firing of the country’s chief prosecutor. The ruling could revive scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s lucrative relationship with an energy firm in that corruption-plagued country just as the former vice president’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is surging after a […]
Michael Bloomberg dropping out of the presidential race likely comes as a relief to the journalists at Bloomberg News who, as has been previously reported, have felt frustrated by what his candidacy has meant for the newsroom. When Bloomberg announced his run for president, Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait sent out a memo to staff outlining how coverage would change, including the decision to continue not […]
Today on Markets Daily we’re taking a break from our quick-hit news roundup format for a brief discussion about the U.S. election in the age of bitcoin with CoinDesk features editor Ben Schiller and privacy-beat reporter Benjamin Powers. Yesterday, CoinDesk launched its Post-Trust Election series, looking at how politics and the U.S. presidential campaigns are grappling with issues of cryptocurrency, data security, privacy, disinformation, online voting and other areas. […]