CIA Warning: 'E-Voting Not Secure' - EAC Finally Releases Stunning Expert Testimony...

[BradBlog]

U.S. EAC Finally Releases Full Transcript of Stunning CIA Cybersecurity Expert Testimony Warning 'E-Voting Not Secure'
Remarks underscore years of reporting at The BRAD BLOG, including dangers of voting machine 'sleepovers', and Sequoia Voting Systems' continuing ties to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez...

"I follow the vote. And wherever the vote becomes an electron and touches a computer, that's an opportunity for a malicious actor potentially to...make bad things happen," CIA cybersecurity expert Steve Stigall explained, in stunning testimony, to a U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) field hearing held one month ago in Orlando.

His remarkable testimony helps to connect troubling dot to troubling dot in what we've been reporting over the past many years...

FULL REPORT: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7021

[alstephenson]

1. I'm sure this will be all over the MSM news!

NOT.

[BradBlog]

3. Well, happily...

...it was actually McClatchy who broke the news originally, even as many in the MSM seem to regard them just one notch about those pesky "bloggers"!

But if the gods are with us, Greg Gordon over there, a good guy, will continue on the beat if he's allowed to.

[annabanana]

2. k&r . . . . . (Like I do with EVERY thread on this subject) . . . . . . .n/t

[inna]

4. Brad, you absolutely rock. enthusiastic rec # 10. :) thanks so much! NT

[Fovea]

5. I spent more than one evening with the brightest guys in the room

back in 2001 bouncing around how to make e-voting secure. Eventually we zeroed in on using a national biometric database.
It also involved using the same database when ANY modification of the core database (one, national, under the GAO).
It required a redundant papertrail audit and severe limitations on who had update and delete privileges.

We figured we'd be able to make it a tiny bit better than paper voting, but it requires a radical revamping
of privacy rights.

The final software systems are so far from secure, you can't even see it from here.

[tbyg52]

7. >>national biometric database

Thank you for supplying one more reason to be against these monstrosities....! :hi:

[Fovea]

9. Almost any functional system of national health care

would be built around one.

The chance of getting the Other Fovea's meds or other medical misadventure is too high otherwise.

The question is who gets to control whose privacy.

That is pretty much a moot point at the moment.

That is why we needed to not pass the telco immunity, and why we need a national privacy policy.

[eridani]

6. In other news--

--water is wet, and babies, puppies and kittens are cute.

[Kurovski]

8. Kick.

Previously recommended. :kick: