By Luther Weeks on March 17, 2013
Here in the land of steady habits, we are ready to move forward with blinders at the ready, apparently confident that our registrars, town clerks, and state IT department will never discover any attacks on on our voting systems, email systems, or fax machines.
Posted in Internet Security Issues, Legislature2013
By Luther Weeks on January 13, 2013
We and others have posted several times, debunking the frequently repeated statement that “If we can use ATMs and the Internet for banking, why can’t we use the internet for voting”. The answers are 1) Voting is a different application and riskier; and 2) Internet banking is not safe, banks loose billions to electronic fraud every year, yet it is less than they make and save using the Internet.
Posted in Internet Security Issues
By Luther Weeks on December 25, 2012
Another government testament to the risks we face with dependency on the Internet for vital systems. We hope in this particular case that the effort is actually increasing the safety of systems we all depend upon.
Posted in Internet Security Issues, National
By Luther Weeks on August 12, 2012
What value is an attack that everyone sees? That depends. Courts have been reluctant to grant re-votes, for good reasons. Results of a vote can depend strongly on the other races and issues on a ballot, get out the vote efforts, and even the weather.
Posted in Internet Security Issues, Internet Voting, National
By Luther Weeks on October 10, 2011
In this post, we address where Common Sense fails. Where what seems obvious to individuals and election officials is often counter to the facts or science. Those that are unfamiliar with technology and a specific area of science often overestimate how difficult or easy specific things are to accomplish.
Posted in Chain of Custody, Common Sense, CT, Electronic Vulnerability, FAQ, Internet Security Issues, Internet Voting, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on June 26, 2011
While all Internet voting systems are vulnerable to such attacks and thus should be unacceptable to anyone, email voting is by far the worst Internet voting choice from a national security point of view since it is the easiest to attack in the largest number of different ways.
Posted in Internet Security Issues, Internet Voting, National
By Luther Weeks on May 16, 2011
We are not surprised that some do not trust us. What is surprising is that many still trust their intuition over the testimony of experts. For those who still have faith in the Internet we present a panel earlier this year at the Overseas Vote Foundation.
Posted in Internet Security Issues, National
By Luther Weeks on April 25, 2011
We have been warning of the risks of Internet voting and ignoring science since our founding. Yet, we have overlooked some of the risks, literally right in front of our nose.
Posted in Internet Security Issues, Legislature2011, National
By Luther Weeks on April 3, 2011
LATimes reports on cyber threats to a Southern California water system. This is why we have been testifying against “online” voting and highlighting that even good size cities cannot protect their systems. Clearly each of Connecticut’s 169 towns could not afford even the expense of threat assessment of online voting systems. A good start would be vulnerability assessment of our existing paper ballot and voting machine security.
Posted in CT, Internet Security Issues, National
By Luther Weeks on March 20, 2011
Could Connecticut or any or our 169 municipalities accomplish what the U.S. Government and the Defense Department has not?
“cyber crime and cyber espionage are daily occurrences in the United States and are doing long-term damage to the nation’s economy and global competitiveness. What’s more, they set the stage for cyber attacks. ‘Some of our opponents use cyber criminals as mercenaries,’”
Posted in CT, Internet Security Issues, National
