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Despite compromise, paperless e-voting machines are history

On his blog Freedom to Tinker, Prof. Ed Felten praises the new standards approved by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee TGDC.. While disappointed that the panel didnt require the removal of paperless e-voting machines, Felten thinks that states will phase out all-electronic machines in favor to the "state of the...

Tags: Ed Felten, Elections, Government technology, paper

Blog posts 2006-12-08

Towards a reliable, verifiable voting machine

In the midst of a flurry of stories about whats wrong with e-voting machines - and theres plenty - Wired News sat down with professors Ed Felten of Princeton and David Wagner of UC Berkeley and asked them to describe what getting it right would like. Combine touchscreen and...

Tags: Memory, Ed Felten, David Wagner, memory card, software

Blog posts 2006-10-18

Computer scientists prove Diebold machines can be hacked

Princeton University computer science professor Ed Felten said Wednesday that he and two graduate students hacked into a Diebold voting machine. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Felten and two of his graduate students recently posted a paper on the university's website describing how they uploaded malicious programs and even...

Tags: Ed Felten, Diebold Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-14

Professors say DMCA stopped them from talking about Sony rootkit

Computer science professor Ed Felten told the US Copyright Office that he and his colleagues had uncovered the Sony rootkit problem a month before news of it broke in November 2005 but he didn't. That's because under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act he could have been subject to prosection,...

Tags: Ed Felten

Blog posts 2006-03-31

Additional Resources

Google wants to buy Native Client security flaws

Google is indirectly buying security vulnerabilities from white hat hackers. Under the guise of a Native Client Security Contest, the search engine firm is offering big cash prizes to hackers who find bugs and other security flaws in the open-source research technology for running x86 native code...

Tags: Google Inc., Prize, Hacker, Hacking, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-02-25

eVoting systems come under fire

As reported by Robert McMillan and Elizabeth Montalbano at IDG News Service, Sequoia voting systems web site has been hacked and subsequently taken down. Sequoia and its voting system is not new to the news, as it was recently investigated by the Attorney General of New Jersey...

Tags: Sequoia Software, New Jersey, Sequoia Voting Systems, E-voting, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-20

The paradise of infinite music

Make that "Ever-receding paradise. . . ." “The Paradise of Infinite Storage” was the title of a panel at the “Pop [Music] and Policy” conference at McGill University in Montreal. Great title, so I downloaded it. . . . Princeton Professor Ed Felten was on...

Tags: Apple iPod, Infinity, Storage, Music, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-10-14

Lawgarithms Links for 8/27/07

iPhone hacking meets the DMCA, new ways to owe money to the RIAA, bad music and its aftermath, and more — now playing in my Google Reader Starred Items:iPhone Unlocked; Legal Battle Looming?, from Ed FeltenUnlocking the iPhone could invite a lawsuit, from Computerworld Breaking News Is Unlocking Apple's iPhone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, RIAA, Lawgarithms, iPhone Hacking, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Demo bill in House would overhaul e-voting law

Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) is the lead sponsor of HR 811, the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, which has garnered dozens of co-sponsors, Ars Technica reports. HR 811 features several requirements that will warm the hearts of geek activists. It bans the use of computerized voting...

Tags: Government technology, Elections

Blog posts 2007-04-03

HD-DVD copy protection in tatters

Late last year I posted information about a new HD-DVD decryption utility that was released which was capable of decrypting a AACS Advanced Access Content System protected HD-DVD discs as long as title keys were available. Many were skeptical. Some pointed to the technical problems of extracting title...

Tags: Cutting Edge, Copyright, HD-DVD, AACS

Blog posts 2007-01-18

Yet more on Evoting

Yet more on EvotingMaybe, but we've seen where...that ends in the US.... A public fight in court, a moron in the White house and lots of tax money wasted on 'public services'to controll everybody...BTW: Using different counting and/or RDBMS software for different locations means that an interface needs to be...

Tags: essentials, accountability, transparency, RFID, e-voting

Discussion threads 2006-10-19

Where democracy goes to Diebold

Where democracy goes to Diebolddiabold and democracyIf we can have recieped ATM machines, certainly we can have reciepted voting. Duh! And we are "SPREADING" DEMOCRACY.!!!!My city upgraded our voting equipmentWe bought optical scanners. It works.It gets worseToday Ed Felten revealed that the key to open the machine...

Tags: democracy, Diebold Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-16

Net neutrality is hard to sell

Net neutrality is hard to sellAnother useful resourceis here: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1040Ed Felten considers the pros and cons, from a technical perspectiveHow was the question answered?Quoting the question:A caller asked a question that went something like: "I don't understand how neutrality controls how fast I seem something–I thought that had to do...

Tags: Corporate communications, Telecom & Utilities, video, QoS, Net Neutrality, phone

Discussion threads 2006-07-14

NYU spyware workshop

This looks to be a great event and I wish I was going to be there, but I don't think that will happen. Details here. It's on March 16-17 at Furman Hall on the campus of New York University School of Law. The March 16 session, "Spyware in Context"...

Tags: spyware

Blog posts 2006-02-28

Are rootkits always evil?

Are rootkits always evil?Not always hide from the ownerIn the case of a corporate admin installing something, that is hiding it from the user, not the owner.And what about the drive image software that is installed by the user and hides from DRM?By the Homeland Security definitionDRM is a rootkit...

Tags: Rootkits, rootkit

Discussion threads 2006-02-23

Does analog hole bill amount to a secret law?

The Sensenbrenner analog hole bill dictates the use of two technologies - CGMS-A and VEIL- as part of a "rights signaling system. Ed Felten blogs that he tried to find out more about VEIL but was told he would have to license the decoder for $10,000, and in any...

Tags: Veil

Blog posts 2006-01-26

Are anti-DRM declarations falling on deaf ears?

Shock and awe is about the only phrase I can come up with to describe the success with which Apple is pushing its Fairplay-laden technology into the marketplace. Fairplay is Apple's form of digital restrictions management and is what keeps content that's purchased from the iTunes Music Store from...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-01-17

What makes a rootkit?

What makes a rootkit?Get a clue from Unix/Linux""Most modern operating systems are very open architectures. The reason you can buy a PC and mix and match technologies from other companies is because the operating system makes it very easy to install devices and allow it to run software code to...

Tags: Rootkits, rootkit, system level, Sony Corp., software

Discussion threads 2005-11-21

The well-mannered marketplace

Still catching up on my blog reading after my trip to LWCE, and the long car trip back. This post on Copyfight highlights an important point about the DMCA and how it relates to open source. The DMCA has largely been a failure at fighting...

Tags: DMCA, entertainment, DVD, entertainment industry

Blog posts 2005-08-19