Lost Comments
Yesterday somebody defaced this site. This trashed the database that backs the site, so we had to restore it from a backup. Everything seems to be back to normal, except that any comments submitted...
View ArticleE-Voting, Up Close
Recently the Election Science Institute released a fascinating report on real experience with e-voting technologies in a May 2006 primary election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (which includes Cleveland)....
View Article9/11
Five years ago this morning I was in a hotel room in Minneapolis, getting dressed. I flipped on the TV and saw smoke streaming from a skyscraper. Nobody knew yet what it meant. My plan had been to meet...
View ArticleSecurity Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
Today, Ari Feldman, Alex Halderman, and I released a paper on the security of e-voting technology. The paper is accompanied by a ten-minute video that demonstrates some of the vulnerabilities and...
View Article"Hotel Minibar" Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines
Like other computer scientists who have studied Diebold voting machines, we were surprised at the apparent carelessness of Diebold's security design. It can be hard to convey this to nonexperts,...
View ArticleRefuting Diebold's Response
Diebold issued a response to our e-voting report. While we feel our paper already addresses all the issues they raise, here is a point by point rebuttal. Diebold's statement is in italics, our response...
View ArticleHonest Election Workers
One of Diebold's responses to our paper and video about their products' security is that election workers are honest and would never do anything to corrupt an election. Like many of Diebold's...
View ArticleNetworking Diebold Voting Machines
Reacting to our report about their AccuVote-TS e-voting product, Diebold spokesmen are claiming that the machines are never networked. For example, Diebold's official written response to our report...
View ArticleE-Voting Testimony
Today at 10:00 AM Eastern I'm testifying at a House Administration Committee hearing on e-voting. Here is the written testimony I submitted. The post E-Voting Testimony appeared first on Freedom to...
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