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Archive for May, 2011

2 months in at Mozilla

Posted: Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 @ 9:54 pm in personal | 1 Comment »

It’s been 2 months since I started at Mozilla. I’m working with fantastically talented and friendly people. I’m enjoying myself tremendously and I’m starting to get a sense of what makes Mozilla different from my previous experiences. Put simply, it’s teamwork. In his speech to Harvard Med School graduates last week (stick with me here, [...]

Online Voting is Terrifying and Inevitable

Posted: Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 @ 5:21 pm in security, voting, web | 4 Comments »

Voting online for public office is a terrifying proposition to most security experts. The paths to subversion or failure are many: the server could get overwhelmed by attackers, preventing voting altogether the server could get hacked and the votes changed surreptitiously the users’ machines could get compromised by a virus, which would then flip votes [...]