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Developers Get a Civics Lesson with Open Source Government Projects If you’re a civic-minded programmer who would like your government to be more open and more efficient, you now have the option to help make it happen. A recently launched portal called GitHub and Government lets users collaborate on projects to solve problems and make information more available. |
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Why the Government Health Care Site Launch Was Doomed from the Start The implementation of the Affordable Care Act on October 1, 2013, prompted the launch of a government website—HealthCare.gov—to help people purchase health insurance coverage. Almost immediately after going live, the website crashed. What went wrong isn't as simple as failing to do load testing. |
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Cyber Attacks on Adobe Jeopardize Customers and US Agencies Bad news hit Adobe Systems earlier this month. Chief security officer Brad Arkin writes that the San Jose-based software company suffered some serious cyber attacks on its network, resulting in “illegal access of customer information as well as source code for numerous Adobe products.” |
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Expect Glitches to Hit New Healthcare Insurance Marketplaces On October 1, the new US government-backed healthcare insurance marketplaces begin open enrollment for individuals. However, recent reports suggest that the software behind the marketplaces may not be quite ready for opening day, and could cause glitches. |
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Why Did Agile Fail on Such a Massive Stage? News of the recent collapse of a welfare reform project in the UK has agile in its crosshairs and does little else but blame the philosophy for the project's failure. But a recently released retrospective-like report shows that perhaps the expectations of agile were unrealistic, to say the least. |
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How NSA Cracks Encrypted Data New facts continue to come out about the National Security Agency’s information-gathering programs. Each day's news seems to outdo previous scoops about its spying capabilities. This week is no different, with new reports detailing NSA's efforts to crack encrypted data. |
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NSA Automating Systems Administrator Jobs after Security Leak In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revealing classified information, the National Security Agency has announced it will significantly reduce its workforce to cut down on the number of people with access to confidential data. The agency plans to automate 90 percent of its systems administrator duties. |
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Don't Want to Help the Government Snoop? You May Not Have a Choice Some of us may never get used to the US government's having access to our personal Internet habits and information, and others are trying to take the fear out of just how capable the U.S. is at accessing this data. What if you could help save the world from a nuclear disaster? It may be possible. |
