Perspective.
Ransomware
Attacks Predicted to Occur Every 11 Seconds in 2021 with a Cost of
$20 Billion
Election
security takes planning. No evidence of that here.
Nevada
Democrats Say They’ll Replace Their Caucus App With iPads And A
Google Form
In
just two days, Nevadans will begin early voting in the state’s
Democratic caucuses. For the past few weeks, it’s been unclear how
those votes would be integrated into the overall vote tallies after
Nevada
Democrats were spooked by the chaos in Iowa’s Democratic primary
and decided to toss a previous
plan to use an app.
But today, the state Democratic party revealed how it intends to
incorporate those early votes into the live caucuses on Feb. 22: “a
simple, user-friendly calculator.”
What
that means, exactly, is still a bit unclear. In a memo sent to
campaigns Thursday and shared with FiveThirtyEight, the party wrote
that “the caucus calculator will only be used on party-purchased
iPads provided to trained precinct chairs and accessed through a
secure Google web form.”
The
memo didn’t provide any specifics about whether the calculator
would be accessed through the Google form, or whether the Google form
itself is the calculator.
(Related)
The
Simple Lessons from a Complicated Iowa Caucus
… The
first lesson is clear: Anything computerized can fail for a slew of
reasons, from hacking to software defects to inadequate training of
election workers. This includes tablets, voting machines, ballot
scanners, electronic poll books, and apps on phones and tablets.
That
is why a central tenet of the joint election protection work of the
Brennan
Center for Justice at
New York University and Common
Cause is
to push states and counties to rigorously test equipment before it’s
rolled out to voters, and to have backups for every critical part of
the election, such as ballots, poll books, and voter registration
databases. It’s important that officials have plenty of those
supplies on hand so that they don’t
run out,
and to make
sure workers understand how to use the backups.
(Related)
'Sloppy'
Mobile Voting App Used in Four States Has 'Elementary' Security Flaws
MIT
researchers say an attacker could intercept and alter votes, while
making voters think their votes have been cast correctly, or trick
the votes server into accepting connections from an attacker.
For
my Disaster Recovery lecture.
Coronavirus
Is a Data Time Bomb
So
far, less than 0.0008 percent of the humans on Earth have been
diagnosed with the coronavirus known
as COVID-19.
But thanks to the circulation of disease and capital, the whole
world has been affected.
Chinese
manufacturing cities such as Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak,
are intimately entangled with the supply chains of the entire world.
That means that both the disease and the containment measures enacted
to control it (take, for example, the quarantine still in place for
70
million people)
will have a dramatic effect on businesses across disparate
industries.
For
my continuing education.
The
Myth of the Privacy Paradox
I
have posted to SSRN a copy of my latest draft article, The
Myth of the Privacy Paradox.
It’s available for download for free.
Here’s
the abstract:
In
this article, I deconstruct and critique the privacy paradox and the
arguments made about it. The “privacy paradox” is the phenomenon
where people say that they value privacy highly, yet in their
behavior relinquish their personal data for very little in exchange
or fail to use measures to protect their privacy.
Because
politicians have done such a lousy job we haven’t been able to
clear it up in 200 years?
Ohio
to use artificial intelligence to evaluate state regulations
Lt.
Gov. Jon Husted said his staff will use an AI software tool,
developed for the state by an outside company, to analyze the state’s
regulations, numbered at 240,000 in a recent study by a conservative
think-tank, and narrow them down for further review.
…
“This
gives us the capability to look at everything that’s been done in
200 years in the state of Ohio and make sense of it,” Husted said.
[prior
to this, nonsense? Bob]
The
project is part of two Husted-led projects — the
Common Sense Initiative,
a state project to review regulations with the goal of cutting
government red tape, and InnovateOhio, a
Husted-led office that
aims to use technology to improve Ohio’s government operations
Resource.
LC – New
Online Collection: Military Legal Resources
In
Custodia Legis:
“This collection includes material from the William Winthrop
Memorial Library at the U.S.
Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in
Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Judge
Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) is
the legal arm of the United States Army, established
on July 29, 1775 by
General George Washington. Judge Advocates are stationed in the
United States and abroad. They are most known for representing
soldiers during courts-martial, but their duties encompass a wide
range of legal disciplines.
Selections of their physical library collection have been digitized
and made available to the public online, including primary source
materials and publications
in
the field of military law. The collection is divided into three
webpages to best highlight the type of material available: JAG
Legal Center & School Materials,
Historical
Materials,
and Military
Law and Legislative History.
These pages contain the digitized material, as well as descriptions
of the collections and, in some cases, historical and contextual
significance. The three webpages organize the collection with
drop-down menus, under which you can find the descriptions and links
to the PDFs…”
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