Posted in Architecture, Commentary, Development methodology, Open Source, Voting System Technology on Jan 7th, 2012
So, we have a phrase we like to use around here borrowed from the legal academic world. Used to describe an action or conduct in analyzing a nuance in tort negligence, is the phrase “frolic and detour.” I am taking a bit of detour and frolicking in an increasingly noisy element of explaining the complexity [...]
Posted in Architecture, Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, Election Technology Reform, Internet Voting, Open Source, Risk, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Oct 22nd, 2010
Gentle Readers:
This is a long article/posting. Under any other circumstance it would be just too long.
There has been much written regarding the public evaluation and testing of the District of Columbia’s Overseas “Digital Vote-by-Mail” Service (the D.C.’s label). And there has been an equal amount of comment and speculation about technology supplied to the District [...]
Posted in Architecture, Voting System Technology on Apr 30th, 2010
[Today's guest post is from election technology expert Doug Jones, who is now revealed as also being an encyclopedia of U.S. elections history. Doug's remarks below were in a discussion about how to effectively use post-election ballot-count audits as a means to gain trust in the correct operation of voting machines -- particularly timely, given [...]
Posted in Architecture, Voting System Technology on Jan 10th, 2010
I came across this article, “NIST-certified USB Flash drives with hardware encryption cracked.”. The money quote:
“The real question, however, remains unanswered – how could USB Flash drives that exhibit such a serious security hole be given one of the highest certificates for crypto devices? Even more importantly, perhaps – what is the value of a [...]
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