The Risks of Election Believability (or Lack Thereof)
With 90% of the 2020 U.S. general election ballot contents verifiable by paper, why do only 65% of voters trust the results?
Rebecca T. Mercuri
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The Risks of Self-Auditing Systems
Unforeseen problems can result from the absence of impartial independent evaluations.
COTS and Other Electronic Voting Backdoors
During the U.S. 2006 primary election season, there was a flurry of media attention about electronic voting, when it was revealed that Diebold Election Systems had erroneously reported to a testing authority (CIBER) that certain Windows CE operating system files were commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) but in fact also contained customized code. This is important because, remarkably, […]
The computer's role in identity theft incidents may have been misgauged through overestimates of reported losses.
In providing security assurances, transparency and trust are inherently intertwined concepts, but their relationship is not well understood.
The Many Colors of Multimedia Security
Protection of artistic content from illegal distribution involves significant gray areas in terms of methods and laws.
The disparity between the code of election law and the code that comprises election equipment reflects inherent problems in the translation of social policies into computer procedures and overseeing processes.
The Hipaa-Potamus in Health Care Data Security
Regulations intended to improve health care data access have created new security risks along with headaches for patients and practitioners.
Exponential increases in computational speed, memory capacity, and bandwidth impose futuristic security demands and challenges.
Standards can provide an important component in the computer security environment but they should not be relied on blindly.
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