” … it turns out that the students who saw the most positive outcomes were those who designed their social media intervention in a targeted way.”
A PDF File Is Not Paper, So PDF Ballots Cannot Be Verified
May 19, 2022 by
A new paper by Henry Herrington, a computer science undergraduate at Princeton University, demonstrates that a hacked PDF ballot can display one set of votes to the voter, but different votes after it’s emailed – or uploaded – to election officials doing the counting. For overseas voters or voters with disabilities, many states provide “Remote Accessible Vote […]
ES&S Uses Undergraduate Project to Lobby New York Legislature on Risky Voting Machines
May 12, 2022 by
The New York State Legislature is considering a bill that would ban all-in-one voting machines. That is, voting machines that can both print votes on a ballot and scan and count votes from a ballot – all in the same paper path. This is an important safeguard because such machines, if they are hacked by […]
Will Web3 Follow in the Footsteps of the AI Hype Cycle?
May 4, 2022 by
For many, the global financial crisis of 2008 marked a turning point for trust in established institutions. It is unsurprising that during this same historical time period, Bitcoin, a decentralized cryptocurrency that aspired to operate independent from state manipulation, began gaining traction. Since the birth of Bitcoin, other decentralized technologies have been introduced that enable […]
A Multi-pronged Strategy for Securing Internet Routing
April 19, 2022 by
By Henry Birge-Lee, Nick Feamster, Mihir Kshirsagar, Prateek Mittal, Jennifer Rexford The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is conducting an inquiry into how it can help protect against security vulnerabilities in the internet routing infrastructure. A number of large communication companies have weighed in on the approach the FCC should take. CITP’s Tech Policy Clinic convened […]
