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Internet Voting in Puerto Rico

Schneier on Security

Puerto Rico is considered allowing for Internet voting. Cybersecurity experts agree that under current technology, no practically proven method exists to securely, verifiably, or privately return voted materials over the internet. I have joined a group of security experts in a letter opposing the bill. The ACLU agrees.

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How Technology and Politics Are Changing Spycraft

Schneier on Security

Interesting article about how traditional nation-based spycraft is changing. Basically, the Internet makes it increasingly possible to generate a good cover story; cell phone and other electronic surveillance techniques make tracking people easier; and machine learning will make all of this automatic.

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On Blockchain Voting

Schneier on Security

But now I have this excellent paper from MIT researchers: “Going from Bad to Worse: From Internet Voting to Blockchain Voting” Sunoo Park, Michael Specter, Neha Narula, and Ronald L. Abstract: Voters are understandably concerned about election security.

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Inrupt’s Solid Announcement

Schneier on Security

Your data is no longer in a bazillion places on the Internet, controlled by you-have-no-idea-who. This is a significant step forward to realizing Tim’s vision : The technologies we’re releasing today are a component of a much-needed course correction for the web. A few news articles. It’s yours.

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Smartphone Election in Washington State

Schneier on Security

This year : King County voters will be able to use their name and birthdate to log in to a Web portal through the Internet browser on their phones, says Bryan Finney, the CEO of Democracy Live, the Seattle-based voting company providing the technology. A centralized printout of a received Internet message is not voter verifiable.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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US Disrupts Russian Botnet

Schneier on Security

The operation copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm used for command and control (C2) of the underlying botnet. The botnet “targets network devices manufactured by WatchGuard Technologies Inc. Four more news articles. WatchGuard) and ASUSTek Computer Inc.