by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Newsletter
Last week I had a story in the Concord Monitor about New Hampshire’s optical ballot-reading machines, which are disconnected from the internet by choice to limit tampering (they even disable pins so you can’t connect a network cable). Here’s the...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
The Boston Globe has a story that I had completely missed: The closed Chester College in Chester, N.H., has been bought by Busche Academy, a Chinese private school that plans to bring as many as 300 Chinese students here, perhaps next year, to get an American high...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
I discussed the DDOS attack by Manchester’s Dyn with NHPR yesterday – it was the subject of my Monitor column – and I thought I had been pretty realistic about how bad the malware-infected Internet of Things could be. But a Slate piece (here it is)...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
The attack on Dyn in Manchester over the weekend was a reflection of how the Internet of Things has been slapped together in a really insecure way, which is Not A Good Thing. Not good as in, say, ransomware in your implanted insulin pump – pay up or you’ll...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
The topics are set for the two – yes, two! – science cafe series in New Hampshire: In Nashua on Nov. 2 we’ll discuss the causes and effects of our drought, while in Concord on Nov. 15 we’ll discuss 3-D printing, and whether it is living up to...
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