Reminds me why I fell in love with Science as a child. Science is so powerful and so breathtaking. Meticulous work and inspired investigation #science #lovescience #scicomm

On the issue of coercion the report misses the point so widely as to be dumbfounding. Apparently it isn't a concern as "There is no receipt that reveals the content of the vote, although it would be possible to use the verification process to reveal the content of the vote." ...

... how is that not a receipt? If you can reveal how you voted then you have a receipt, it doesn't matter if it is a physical receipt or a 'virtual' receipt.

And we shouldn't worry about coercion because Prof Smith contends coercion "is simply not part of the culture or social mores of Australian elections and has not and is not likely to be an issue." Neither was shoplifting from supermarkets, but self-service checkouts changed that.

Finally the included PwC report claims that the limited number of eligible voters has allowed "...the system to benefit from ‘security through obscurity’, and therefore, the level of risk management of iVote at present is appropriate based on current scale and scope of its use."

Yep, that's what you want from a voting system; you want its security to benefit from that well known gold standard of cyber security: 'security through obscurity'.

JFC. #GeneEditSummit

#NowNow He Jiankui -Chinese scientist whose claim to have created gene edited babies initially met with skepticism, just presented at the international Human Genome Editing Summit. Apparently provided verifiable data! The world may be about to change Charlie Pickering #TomorrowTonight

No point in national #science reform just being a talk fest or just enhancing current strengths, it must lead to long term strengthening of Australian science - i.e. #education

Great read. A cunning attack via a malicious change to a trusted open source package that many depend upon but few check. There are just too many dependencies nowadays. This is going to keep happening...

A long list of Google employees demands Google stops working on their censored browser #Dragonfly" for China. theintercept.com/2018/08/01/goo… perhaps inspired by #googlewalkout - as always #insiders are a powerful threat. #censorship #Whistleblower

Obvious #risk when you think about it. Wonder if McDonalds thought about it? #risks

Dell data breach: ‘’Dell is announcing that it detected and disrupted unauthorized activity on its network attempting to extract Dell.com customer information, which was limited to names, email addresses and hashed passwords” dell.com/learn/us/en/us…

“The #students here should be seen as people and not just pupils” This school has a deliberate process to make sure every student has at least one #teacher in the building who knows their name. So they feel valued. Important. #studentsAsPeople

First time in Washington for terrific #CyberwarCon and finally got to see two very special things. So happy right now.

I promised someone I'd self-dox and tell my "how I got from x to infosec" story. I was not "a natural," I excelled in biochem, music and literature; when I said I wanted to be in this field, I had hardly any ground to stand on. This is a thread about being stubborn. 1/n

I think we all have the potential and inclination to be kind. That some people act cruelly to me is a failure of education -at school & home & in the community. I hope her experience of young students, like mine, and of their wonderful natures is enough to offset this nasty act.

#China #marathon: "258 participants caught #cheating.. wearing fake bibs.. three impostors.. taken shortcuts during the race ..caught out by traffic cameras & photographers" Wow. So many cheat, and so much effort to detect cheaters (who cares?), and such surveillance..

This is what #authoritarianism looks like. It's against the LAW to do things I don't like you doing. “Winnie the Pooh” is one of the numerous words and phrases that have been banned from social media and using them is even against Chinese law. #Censorship

Compelling summary of the scientific news of the year - the Chinese designer baby shock. From leading human genome editing expert Merlin Crossley crossleylab.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/the… Charlie Pickering UNSW Science UNSW #TomorrowTonight #CRISPRbabies