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Politics is everywhere this year. It is hard to get away from the news – and it seems that most of the talking is done by people who aren't too interested in finding any kind of common ground with other viewpoints, which makes it all the more excruciating for the ears. I'm well aware that people read Linux magazines to get away from politics.
Dear Reader,
Politics is everywhere this year. It is hard to get away from the news – and it seems that most of the talking is done by people who aren't too interested in finding any kind of common ground with other viewpoints, which makes it all the more excruciating for the ears. I'm well aware that people read Linux magazines to get away from politics.
Sometimes, however, politics really is a high-tech topic. A recent news story reports that 198 million Americans were affected by the "largest ever" voting records "leak." The analytics data was stored on an unsecured Amazon server. According to reports, the server was apparently owned by Deep Root Analytics, a consulting firm specializing in targeted, analytics-based outreach on behalf of pro-trade Republican candidates, although the Republicans were apparently following the lead of previous efforts by Democrats to bring Big Data techniques to voter data analysis.
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