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 […]
Security flaw in New South Wales puts thousands of online votes at risk
March 22, 2015 by
Update April 26: The technical paper is now available Update Mar. 23 1:30 PM AEDT: Our response to the NSWEC’s response New South Wales, Australia, is holding state elections this month, and they’re offering a new Internet voting system developed by e-voting vendor Scytl and the NSW Electoral Commission. The iVote system, which its creators […]
Heartsick about Heartbleed
April 10, 2014 by
Ed Felten provides good advice on this blog about what to do in the wake of Heartbleed, and I’ve read some good technical discussions of the technical problem (see this for a particularly understandable explanation). Update Apr 11: To understand what Heartbleed is all about, see XKCD. Best. Explanation. Ever. In this brief posting, I […]
