The week kicked off with the Iowa caucuses, which went very poorly, in so many ways! We'll talk about a few of them below, but the main takeaway is that adding unvetted technology to the voting process—or anything—rarely makes things better. Other states, please take note! Actually, Nevada and New Hampshire already have. It's a start.
In another unwelcome technological evolution, ransomware has started targeting industrial control systems, which bodes poorly for critical infrastructure. And flaws in a widely used Cisco protocol have put millions of workplace phones, routers, and network switches at risk.
On the lighter side of hacking—well, it's all relative—artist Simon Weckert fooled Google Maps into thinking there was a traffic jam in Berlin by carting around 99 smartphones in little red wagon. It's a fun visual, but comes with an important message about how technology shapes the human experience. Secure internet company Dashlane has a message, too; it ponied up for a reported $5.6 million Super Bowl ad, signaling that the password manager wars have arrived. Everybody wins!
That's less than Facebook paid out in bug bounties last year, but at least the incentive helped catch a bug that put the data of 9.5 million users. And now that Trump has the Mueller investigation and impeachment both in the rearview, there's little left to restrain him from engaging in the type of activities that prompted them in ..
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