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Election security experts see allowing small groups, like military, overseas and disabled voters, to use online voting as a largely acceptable risk, given the slim percentage of ballots that are returned via email, fax or web portal. But that doesn't mean it's safe. Since internet voting was first considered in the 1990s, cybersecurity experts have warned that hackers could too easily tamper with ballots returned this way. Those concerns remain as strong as ever today, prompting experts to keep a watchful eye on the increasingly easy-to-use, and easy-to-scale-up, technologies that could one day let everyone vote online. … [Read more...] about Online voting, called a major risk by security experts, opens up to more voters

“Would we have preferred some former Ernst & Young person to be the CFO versus Amy?” a former partner asks rhetorically. “It was just one of those idiosyncrasies that was strange about the firm.” The firm’s quirks were easy to tolerate, though, because everyone who worked there was getting so incredibly rich — and Boies, as the firm’s founder, was getting richest of all. “He didn’t really build a law firm,” says a longtime friend. “He built a money machine tied to David Boies.” Over the years, he came to live like the clients he represented, acquiring a world-class racing yacht and a couple of California vineyards. He sometimes shot craps with Nora Ephron on visits to Las Vegas. She and Boies were in the room, along with his friend Barbara Walters, on the infamous evening in 2006 when casino billionaire Steve Wynn, a Boies client, accidentally poked a hole in his Picasso. … [Read more...] about The Bad, Good Lawyer

Localities are integrating climate change factors into development strategies at all levels A fresh initiative The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam has collaborated with the Eco-community Development Centre (ECODE) under the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations to initiate an information package on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation (DRR-CCA) in seven coastal provinces of Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa, Quang Binh, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, and Ca Mau, aiming to help the provinces integrate disaster and climate change risk into their socioeconomic development plans. … [Read more...] about Equipping localities in climate fight

VinFast estimated it sold a total of 29,485 vehicles in 2020, including 18,016 Fadil cars, 6,013 Lux A2.0 cars and 5,456 Lux SA2.0 models. From 2022, VinFast plans to introduce two more gasoline-powered cars and three electric models, expected to account for 30 per cent of the car market share in Viet Nam. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JANUARY 26