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Archive for May, 2007

Voting: Things are Not Always What They Seem

Posted: Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 @ 3:52 pm in privacy, security, voting | View Comments

It’s interesting how Voting often comes up in so many discussions, and how often folks believe that Voting is a well established, stable process that is usually fair, except for those pesky touchscreen voting machines that are corrupting a process that has long been well managed. (Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like unverified touchscreen [...]

Web 2.0 Security & Privacy Workshop

Posted: Thursday, May 24th, 2007 @ 6:59 pm in security, web | View Comments

Today, I was at the IEEE Web 2.0 Security & Privacy Workshop, where I presented a short position paper on extending the web browser to enable secure private-data mashups. I started the day not sure what to expect: maybe a day-long complaint about how web 2.0 concepts are insecure and we need to stop and [...]

Voting à la Française

Posted: Sunday, May 6th, 2007 @ 6:45 pm in policy, privacy, security, voting | View Comments

Nicolas Sarkozy just won the French Presidential Elections by a sizeable margin. In case my fellow US liberals are worried about a “Conservative” victory in Europe, it’s important to note that the US Republican Party and the French UMP are by no means the same. Sarkozy used his first speaking opportunity to declare France “a [...]