The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | Paige A. Thompson is in big trouble. The Seattle-based hacker is in federal custody after FBI agents searched her home and found evidence she breached the serves of CapitalOne. |
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| Published at: | 6:21 PM on Monday, July 29th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Hacking |
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| Excerpt: | Read NPI's interview with King County's top elections official. Topics discussed include preparations for the 2018 November general election, ballot security, and reforms like prepaid postage on ballot return envelopes that are making it easier to vote. |
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| Published at: | 5:44 PM on Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections, Hacking, Secure Elections |
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| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Donna Brazile's Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House. The book has been portrayed in the mass media as a juicy tell-all, but a good chunk of it is actually a cybersecurity clinic that's worth reading. |
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| Published at: | 11:42 AM on Sunday, January 21st, 2018 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Elections, Media & Culture |
| Other Tags: | Book Reviews, Books, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Presidential Debate, Democratic Presidential Debates, Electoral College, Media Criticism |
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| Excerpt: | It’s a start: President Obama struck back at Russia on Thursday for its efforts to influence the 2016 election, ejecting 35 suspected Russian intelligence operatives from the United States and imposing sanctions on Russia’s two leading intelligence services. The administration also penalized four top officers of one of those services, the powerful military intelligence unit […] |
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| Published at: | 7:58 PM on Thursday, December 29th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Technology, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Diplomacy & Conflict, Hacking |
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| Excerpt: | Responding to Donald Trump’s absurd recent allegations about election rigging, incumbent Republican Secretary of State Kim Wyman today published a sternly-worded statement rebuking her party’s nominee (though not by name) and expressing full confidence in Washington State’s own elections systems. Said Wyman: In recent days, we have heard heated campaign rhetoric about American elections being […] |
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| Published at: | 4:16 PM on Tuesday, October 18th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Tags: | Hardening |
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| Excerpt: | Last spring, we embarked on an ambitious project to strengthen the security of the Northwest Progressive Institute’s network of websites by making them available only over HTTPS, beginning with this domain, nwprogressive.org, and all the publications housed under it, like the Cascadia Advocate. Today, we are pleased to announce that we have done the same […] |
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| Published at: | 1:04 PM on Sunday, January 24th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Announcements, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Pacific NW Portal, Permanent Defense, Site Improvements |
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| Excerpt: | It seems like hardly a week goes by these days when we don’t hear about yet another data breach or newly-discovered exploit in widely used software. Bad neighborhoods have existed on the Internet for a long time, but danger now seems to present itself at every turn. There’s malware lurking all over the place, email […] |
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| Published at: | 8:29 AM on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Announcements, Meta, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Site Improvements |
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