Michael Ellis as NSA General Counsel
November 18 2020
Over at Lawfare, Susan Hennessey has an excellent primer on how Trump loyalist Michael Ellis got to be the NSA General Counsel, over the objections of NSA Director...
Read moreOn Blockchain Voting
November 16 2020
Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze:
Why is blockchain voting a dumb idea? Glad you asked.
For...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
November 14 2020
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
- I’m speaking at the (ISC)² Security Congress 2020, November 16, 2020.
- I’ll be on a panel... Read more
Friday Squid Blogging: Underwater Robot Uses Squid-Like Propulsion
November 13 2020This is neat: By generating powerful streams of water, UCSD’s squid-like robot can swim untethered. The “squidbot” carries its own power source, and has the room to hold more, including...
Read moreInrupt’s Solid Announcement
November 13 2020
Earlier this year, I announced that I had joined Inrupt, the company commercializing Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid specification:
The idea behind Solid is both simple and extraordinarily...
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New Zealand Election Fraud
November 13 2020
It seems that this election season has not gone without fraud. In New Zealand, a vote for “Bird of the Year” has been marred by fraudulent votes:
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“Privacy Nutrition Labels” in Apple’s App Store
November 12 2020
Apple will start requiring standardized privacy labels for apps in its app store, starting in December:
Apple allows data disclosure to be optional if all of the following conditions...
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The Security Failures of Online Exam Proctoring
November 11 2020
Proctoring an online exam is hard. It’s hard to be sure that the student isn’t cheating, maybe by having reference materials at hand, or maybe by substituting someone else...
Read more2020 Was a Secure Election
November 10 2020
Over at Lawfare: “2020 Is An Election Security Success Story (So Far).”
What’s more, the voting itself was remarkably smooth. It was only a few months ago that professionals...
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