There is an election security fight brewing in Georgia, where Sec State Brad Raffensperger's bet on securing vulnerable voting machine software by other means for 2024 is setting off a firestorm of criticism from security experts. My story below: politico.com/news/2023/06/2…

I like the quote at the end by John Sebes "We’ve got to be able to have a conversation about that without being wrapped up around the flag of MAGA conspiracy theorists" politico.com/news/2023/06/2…

Opinion: The case against allowing internet voting in Michigan bridgemi.com/guest-commenta… via Bridge Michigan

Today's the 1st day of class at University of Michigan and we're in hour 24 of a major IT outage. Despite the disruption, it's been great to see colleagues innovate and help each other work around the downtime. Big thanks to everyone at UMich ITS who's been up all night to bring us back online.

This article with quotes from Apple on why it killed the CSAM photo scanning initiative is the first thing I’ve seen from the company explaining their decision. wired.com/story/apple-cs…

That amazing feeling when you look something up on @wikipedia and there is your TLS cert, looking back at you.

Ross Anderson Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREng Dear friend and treasured long term campaigner for privacy and security, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, Lovelace Medal winner, has died suddenly at home in Cambridge.

How can #optimization help with #electionsecurity? Read the latest article from Operations Research. "Improving the Security of United States Elections with Robust Optimization" bit.ly/3YKslim

From a security perspective, elections are much safer when there's a decisive outcome than when they hinge on razor-thin margins in a few states. But what about next time? How many voters will continue to call for necessary election security improvements?

🎧 NEW PODCAST: Protecting Democracy: My Journey Covering Election Security w/ J. Alex Halderman! From Georgia’s voting machines to myths about mail-in ballots, we explore how to safeguard elections in a digital world. 🔗 Listen: milestogo.libsyn.com/episode-38-not…

I'm in DC the rest of this week for the Election Verification Network conference. Ping me if you want to say 👋