California’s Internet Voting Initiatives
The vast majority of computer and network security experts agree that there is currently no way to adequately secure an online public election.
Barbara Simons
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Internet voting is unachievable for the foreseeable future and therefore not inevitable. View a video of Barbara Simons entitled "Internet Voting: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come."
Risks of Technology-Oblivious Policy
Many readers of this column have tried to influence technology policy and had their advice ignored. Politics is frequently a factor, but another reason for our failure is that we don’t do a good job of explaining the roots of computing-related security and usability issues to non-technical people. People who have never written code do […]
Analyzing Internet Voting Security
An extensive assessment of a proposed Internet-based voting system.
Voting and Technology: Who Gets to Count Your Vote?
Paperless voting machines threaten the integrity of democratic process by what they don't do.
The U.S. Public Policy committee of ACM (USACM) is concerned the proposed Total Information Awareness (TIA) Program, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, will fail to achieve its stated goal of "countering terrorism through prevention." Further, we believe the vast amount of information and misinformation collected by any system resulting from this program […]
ACM’s Position on the Licensing of Software Engineers
From 1993 through June 2000 ACM worked with the IEEE Computer Society on projects to examine and guide the evolution of software engineering as a profession. This work was originally carried out under the Joint IEEE-CS and ACM Steering Committee for the Establishment of Software Engineering as a Profession. In 1998 the joint committee was […]
Viewpoint: The ACM Declaration in Felten v. RIAA
Because of concerns that ACM members and ACM itself could be subjected to civil or criminal prosecutions, the ACM Council voted in June to submit a legal document in support of Felten.
Inside Risks: Shrink-Wrapping Our Rights
Laws relating to computers, software, and the Internet are being proposed and passed at such a breathless rate that even those of us trying to follow them are having trouble keeping up. Unfortunately, bad laws, such as the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), are likely to encourage other bad laws, such as proposals to […]
From the President: to DVD or Not to DVD
The current legal DVD battle between the movie industry and the free/open software communities over DVD is a microcosm of an ongoing intellectual property war.
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