The Perception Problem: When Experts and Non-Experts Disagree
CNET reports that voters are not worried about voting machines, but experts are. Some people are using this observation as an excuse to dismiss the worries of security experts. To paraphrase Avi...
View ArticleWay to Go, Florida Election Officials
Bloggers – Atrios and Kos – are upset about an optical scan failure in Daytona Beach, Florida. In fact, you have to give credit to the election officials who did exactly the right thing. With tens of...
View ArticleWhen DRM Breaks User Expectations
So it seems the Napster “music for rent” DRM scheme has been broken. This is not surprising. Apple’s iTunes was broken with PlayFair a few months after launch. In general, DRM is breakable on any...
View ArticleiPod Shuffle as a Trusted Device?
My sister just got me an iPod Shuffle for my birthday, which is really nice. I’m surprised by how light and convenient it is. For all of those people who are worried about using an ipod for working...
View ArticleDangerous MBA Hackers
By now you’ve probably heard about Harvard, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon business schools rejecting MBA applicants who “hacked” into the admissions web site to see their acceptance status early. The...
View ArticleMBA hacking continued
Four weeks ago, a few fellow crypto people from MIT and I wrote a letter to the Dean of the MIT Sloan School concerning the applicant hacking incident. The Dean answered. So we wrote back. And he...
View ArticleA Platform of Trust for Email
So, it’s time I begin describing the work my research team (Susan Hohenberger, Ronald L. Rivest, and myself) has been doing to fight phishing attacks (and maybe even spam). Over the next few posts,...
View ArticleVoting is Hard
Voting is terribly hard to administer. I voted yesterday in Boston. I was handed voting lists by partisans about 50 feet outside the voting location, which is technically illegal. Once I came into the...
View ArticleThe Two Laws of DRM
People are in shock that Sony is effectively installing spyware to help them in their DRM effort. How dare Sony surreptitiously install a program on your computer that effectively overrides the...
View ArticleVoting: The Beginning of a Revolution
I spent this past Thursday and Friday meeting with Andy Neff of VoteHere. We discussed the details of his latest ideas for verifiable voting, and he asked me to help him with the write-up and framing...
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