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Faith in Internet voting? Prepare for “ShellShock”!

By Luther Weeks on September 26, 2014

Continuing with facts to put in front of those with blind faith in the Interned, a disease that attacks those with little knowledge of computers, data communications, and software.

Shellshock can be used to take over the entire machine. And Heartbleed went unnoticed for two years and affected an estimated 500,000 machines, but Shellshock was not discovered for 22 years.

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If I can’t register to vote online, why can I vote online?

By Luther Weeks on September 11, 2014

The University of Maryland shut down its voter registration system based on a breech of their student ID system. Not quite the end of the World. Yet, online voting would be another matter.

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Crumbling infrastructure – its not just highways and bridges anymore

By Luther Weeks on July 17, 2014

The big news in Connecticut these days is Congress’s patched-up highway bill to continue patching-up our highways, while Connecticut has the the worst highway conditions in the nation.

But we are also just as dependent on electricity and the Internet. A Washington Post editorial highlights the risks, while Ed Snowden through Glenn Greenwald confirms the reality.

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If Internet voting is so safe, why is the power grid so vulnerable?

By Luther Weeks on April 7, 2014

Of course the answer is that Internet voting is not safe, much more vulnerable than the power grid. But why don’t we know that?

How are grid vulnerabilities different from the vulnerabilities of electronic voting and Internet voting in particular? Lets look at a story from the LA Times highlighting vulnerabilities in the power grid

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How can the NSA, Microsoft, Google etc. vote?

By Luther Weeks on January 21, 2014

A post got us thinking: Every Scary, Weird Thing We Know the NSA Can Do. Lets add some corollaries relevant to voting and elections:

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Chinese successfully attack U.S. Election Watchdog

By Luther Weeks on January 1, 2014

Just a little practice for Internet voting. Or are attackers just a but more careful when they attack actual elections?

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Cognitive Dissonance? Not in Connecticut when it comes to the Internet

By Luther Weeks on October 7, 2013

In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the discomfort experienced when simultaneously holding two or more conflicting cognitions: ideas, beliefs, values or emotional reactions. In a state of dissonance, people may sometimes feel “disequilibrium”: frustration, hunger, dread, guilt, anger, embarrassment, anxiety, etc – Wikipedia

The state fails at protecting data, legislators to get lesson in Internet security, N.I.S.T experts say unsafe the Internet is not safe for voting, the N.S.A. and others can look at practically anything, yet local registrars, the Secretary of the State, and the State Military Department can protect Internet voting by Legislative decree.

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Secret Vote? Not on “our” Internet — just the insiders and bad guys know how you intended to vote

By Luther Weeks on September 17, 2013

There is perhaps something even worse than the risks of the secret vote or the risks of the public vote. Voting via Internet in a way that has many of the risks of public voting, without the benefits, along with the risks of secret voting and lack of confidence in the system.

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Encryption, exposed as almost useless except to spys

By Luther Weeks on September 7, 2013

Several weeks ago, Glen Greenwald said there was much more to come based on the information obtained by Edward Snowdon. For several of those weeks we have had disturbing, yet relatively minor disclosures. Yet once again, Snowdon has providing something huge. We need, once again to become a nation of laws.

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An instructive story – Suppression, Conspiracy, Intrigue, Incredible, unfortunately True

By Luther Weeks on August 18, 2013

This is a tale of three individuals focusing on the less known of the three, and her struggles with a country bent on suppressing information required of its citizens to participate in, direct, and obtain democracy. It would be quite a movie trailer or book sample text, yet perhaps too unbelievable.

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