The prospective presidential candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton has given rise to plenty of speculation about the notion of Bill Clinton as the nation’s first gentleman. But what about another role? How about, say, vice president?
Politically, of course, the idea is a non-starter for all sorts of reasons. But that doesn’t stop the parlor games, [...]
Freedom to Tinker » “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, because the examples are technical. To security practitioners, the use of a fixed, unchangeable encryption [...]
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When I vote I want to be assured my vote counts. That someone won’t change it, or misunderstand it, or lose it. So I would be up for electronic voting, but the number one maker of voting machines also seems the be the number one maker of insecure voting machines. And Diebold [...]
