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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...elections with extremely close results, where the winners margin of victory was perhaps smaller than the election systems margin of error. The term Hanging Chads , from the 2000 U.S Presidential election , is now part of the American vocabulary, and locally here in Washington State our last gubernatorial election in 2004 required 3 recounts...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-02 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...elections Historically, none of these solutions has worked with any regularity. Max Abrahms, a predoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, has studied dozens of terrorist groups from all over the world. He argues that the model is wrong. In a paper (.pdf) published this year in International...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-07 05:48:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...elections Historically, none of these solutions has worked with any regularity. Max Abrahms, a predoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, has studied dozens of terrorist groups from all over the world. He argues that the model is wrong. In a paper published this year in International...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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Security dominates 2008 IT agenda

2008-01-02 00:00:00 by Network World Staff in Network World on Security
 
VoIP security, malware aimed at the Olympics and U.S. presidential elections and Web 2.0 threats will keep security professionals busy in the New Year. Faster wireless LANs based on 802.11n, more enterprise-class open source applications, and new markets for Google are also on tap
 
Tags: security professionals busy, presidential elections, malware aimed, voip security, source applications, google, 11n, markets, olympics
 
 
 
 
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Tests in Ohio point to e-voting insecurities

2007-12-31 00:00:00 by HASH0x8471528 in Network World on Security
 
A series of tests on the electronic voting systems used in Ohio showed that security shortcomings are a continuing danger to the accuracy of elections there, according to a report released in December by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner
 
Tags: ohio, ohio secretary, tests, security shortcomings, jennifer brunner, elections, danger, series, report
 
 
 
 
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Election (including security) madness

2008-01-08 00:00:00 by Scott Bradner in Network World on Security
 
There's undercurrent of mistrust when it comes to the voting machines many people use. Could the machines themselves have a deciding impact on elections
 
Tags: machines, undercurrent, elections, people, mistrust, impact
 
 
 
 
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German activists move to block e-voting

2008-01-08 00:00:00 by HASH0x84709f4 in Network World on Security
 
A German computer club has asked a court to grant an injunction that would stop the use of electronic voting machines in state elections scheduled for later this month
 
Tags: german computer club, elections, court, stop, month, injunction, machines, electronic, grant
 
 
 
 
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My 2008 Security Predictions!

2008-01-09 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...elections. Maybe another "chad story", but with an "e-" added to it? Fun, fun, fun Full disk encryption becomes popular = no. In fact, I predict that in 2008 encryption would be "the new firewall" - more and more people will hide from reality behind "we have encryption - we are safe now!" (check out my piece on encryption mistakes , while you...
 
Tags: security, security predictions, broader information security, information security, smb security, virtual security appliances, security market, security solutions, security software
 
 
 
 
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Show 001 - An Interview with Avi Rubin

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2006-04-19 17:47:13 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...Elections Froot Loops and Corn Flakes Subscribe to IEEE Security & Privacy
 
Tags: avi rubin, avi, ieee security, johns hopkins university, avis site, information security institute, avis, electronic, diebold electronic
 
 
 
 
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How to fraudulently elect a president

2008-01-23 00:00:00 by Editor in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast