Articles tagged as "security"

There was voluminous and heated discussion on the cryptography mailing list about the dangers of the paper audit trail for e-voting that is being pushed by the e-voting academic experts. The instigator and perpetuator of the discussion was Ed Gerck.

I will have to check this out. Although, I have several piles of other publications to whittle down first.

This story about 16M Yen (~$136,000) stolen from someone’s CityBank online banking service after the user’s password was compromised at an Internet cafe highlights the tremendous risk of insecure client computers. It does not make a darned bit of difference what crypto strength you were to use, it is so trivial to install a keystroke capture device that nobody would ever notice that will catch everything before it is encrypted.

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BlackBox Voting is reporting on a whistleblower lawsuit filed here in Washington state by a software engineer against his former employer VoteHere. He alleges that he was wrongfully terminated to silence his complaints while third party “certification” of the VoteHere system was being conducted. The lawsuit enumerates many of the system’s flaws that he documented in defect reports. It is a must-read.

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The March 3 Security Wire Digest and Reuters are reporting that:

“Two Alberta men with a passion for locating and mapping wireless

[IP] Pondering Value of Copyright vs. Innovation

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