Virginia becomes first US state to debut COVID-19 tracing app using Apple and Google API
The Exposure Notification API developed by #Apple and #Google is officially being put to use in the United States. #Virginia has become the first U.S. state to offer a COVID-19 contact tracing application using the Apple and Google API, and it’s available to download today from the App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android.
The COVIDWISE app comes from the Virginia Department of Health. As we’ve explained in the past, Apple only allows public health agencies like Health Canada to access the Exposure Notification API. That is, not anyone can simply build an app using the API.
By using the Exposure Notification API, the COVIDWISE app uses Bluetooth to exchange random identifiers with nearby phones and subsequently checks against a list of identifiers from people who have reported a positive test.
https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/05/virginia-becomes-first-us-state-to-debut-covid-19-tracing-app-using-apple-and-google-api/
The Exposure Notification API developed by #Apple and #Google is officially being put to use in the United States. #Virginia has become the first U.S. state to offer a COVID-19 contact tracing application using the Apple and Google API, and it’s available to download today from the App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android.
The COVIDWISE app comes from the Virginia Department of Health. As we’ve explained in the past, Apple only allows public health agencies like Health Canada to access the Exposure Notification API. That is, not anyone can simply build an app using the API.
By using the Exposure Notification API, the COVIDWISE app uses Bluetooth to exchange random identifiers with nearby phones and subsequently checks against a list of identifiers from people who have reported a positive test.
https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/05/virginia-becomes-first-us-state-to-debut-covid-19-tracing-app-using-apple-and-google-api/
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Texas man charged with planning to blow up Amazon data center in Virginia
The Wichita Falls man was arrested Thursday after receiving a fake bomb from an FBI undercover employee.
The FBI arrested a Texas man Thursday on charges of hatching a plan to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia.
Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, of Wichita Falls was taken into custody Thursday after receiving what he thought was a bomb from a like-minded person, but it was actually a dud provided by an FBI undercover employee.
Court documents say Pendley came to the FBI’s attention after agents received a tip that he was posting alarming statements on a forum popular with militia groups, mymilitia.com. He began communicating through an encrypted messaging app with another person, who told the FBI that Pendley planned to use plastic explosives to attack the tech company’s data centers “to kill about 70% of the internet.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/texas-man-charged-planning-blow-amazon-data-center-virginia-n1263663
http://telegra.ph/Texas-Man-Charged-With-Intent-to-Attack-Data-Centers-04-09
via www.justice.gov
#usa #virginia #amazon #DeleteAmazon #datacenter #attack #fbi
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The Wichita Falls man was arrested Thursday after receiving a fake bomb from an FBI undercover employee.
The FBI arrested a Texas man Thursday on charges of hatching a plan to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia.
Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, of Wichita Falls was taken into custody Thursday after receiving what he thought was a bomb from a like-minded person, but it was actually a dud provided by an FBI undercover employee.
Court documents say Pendley came to the FBI’s attention after agents received a tip that he was posting alarming statements on a forum popular with militia groups, mymilitia.com. He began communicating through an encrypted messaging app with another person, who told the FBI that Pendley planned to use plastic explosives to attack the tech company’s data centers “to kill about 70% of the internet.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/texas-man-charged-planning-blow-amazon-data-center-virginia-n1263663
http://telegra.ph/Texas-Man-Charged-With-Intent-to-Attack-Data-Centers-04-09
via www.justice.gov
#usa #virginia #amazon #DeleteAmazon #datacenter #attack #fbi
📡 @nogoolag 📡 @blackbox_archiv
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Texas man charged with planning to blow up Amazon data center in Virginia
The Wichita Falls man was arrested Thursday after receiving a fake bomb from an FBI undercover employee.