MIT hackers compete to shine spotlight on cybersecurity

MIT hackers compete to shine spotlight on cybersecurity

BOSTON (AP) — Students from MIT and Britain's University of Cambridge will spend the weekend hacking one another's computers, with the blessing of their national leaders.

The two schools are competing in a hacking contest that U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron announced last year among other joint cybersecurity projects between the two nations. The White House billed it as a showdown between the two prestigious schools, both known as heavyweights in the world of computer science.

Ben Carson’s star rose from rough beginnings
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Ben Carson’s star rose from rough beginnings

Evan Lips

This article is part of a series of profiles of the 2016 presidential candidates that will appear on the NewBostonPost in the months leading up to the nominating conventions. 

Oh! That mine enemy would write a book! I had written a book, and it has furnished a matter of abuse for want of something better.
— Thomas Jefferson, March 1789.
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