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NGP VAN
Company blog · blog.ngpvan.com/engineeringpoliticsprogramming
NGP VAN is the company blog at blog.ngpvan.com, writing about politics and programming. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
NGP VAN's company blog, here linked for its data-security and privacy post, which comments cite on the DNC "Datagate" controversy and the October incident outside the VAN VoteBuilder system.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
NGP VAN is the leading technology provider to Democratic and progressive political campaigns and organizations, nonprofits, municipalities, and other groups. Access an integrated platform of the best fundraising, compliance, field, organizing, digital, and social networking products.
What Hacker News says?
Reposting my response from below, but the October incident was not with NGP VAN and was actually another vendor - not sure who though but I'd be interested in hearing theories. From their press release: "Josh Uretsky, the former National Data Director for the Sanders campaign confirmed on MSNBC (at 5:47), and also on CNN, regarding the previous incident: 'it wasn’t actually within the VAN VoteBuilder system, it was…
Comment linking /data-security-and-privacy
on “What Really Happened With the DNC’s “Datagate”?”Submitted The DNC data breach as a story · 89 points
HN discussionThe spokesman was incorrect, the October incident was not from NGP VAN. From their press release: "Josh Uretsky, the former National Data Director for the Sanders campaign confirmed on MSNBC (at 5:47), and also on CNN, regarding the previous incident: 'it wasn’t actually within the VAN VoteBuilder system, it was another system.'" [1][2] [1] http://blog.ngpvan.com/data-security-and-privacy [2] http://www.msnbc.com/th…
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