A Major Internet Milestone: DNSSEC and SSL
On July 15th, a small but significant internet event occurred. On that day, years of planning culminated in the deployment of a cryptographic signature on the root DNS zone. To simplify greatly, this...
View ArticleNew Search and Browsing Interface for the RECAP Archive
We have written in the past about RECAP, our project to help make federal court documents more easily accessible. We continue to upgrade the system, and we are eager for your feedback on a new set of...
View ArticleDo Not Track: Not as Simple as it Sounds
Over the past few weeks, regulators have rekindled their interest in an online Do Not Track proposal in hopes of better protecting consumer privacy. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz told a Senate Commerce...
View ArticleAssessing PACER's Access Barriers
The U.S. Courts recently conducted a year-long assessment of their Electronic Public Access program which included a survey of PACER users. While the results of the assessment haven’t been formally...
View ArticleThe Future of DRE Voting Machines
Last week at the EVT/WOTE workshop, Ari Feldman and I unveiled a new research project that we feel represents the future of DRE voting machines. DRE (direct-recording electronic) voting machines are...
View ArticleElectronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source
Updates: 8/28 Alex Halderman: Indian E-Voting Researcher Freed After Seven Days in Police Custody 8/26 Alex Halderman: Indian E-Voting Researcher Remains in Police Custody 8/24 Ed Felten: It’s Time...
View ArticleIt’s Time for India to Face its E-Voting Problem
The unjustified arrest of Indian e-voting researcher Hari Prasad, while an ordeal for Prasad and his family, and an embarrassment to the Indian authorities, has at least helped to focus attention on...
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Update: Indian E-Voting Researcher Remains in Police Custody
Update: 8/28 Indian E-Voting Researcher Freed After Seven Days in Police Custody In case you're just tuning in, e-voting researcher Hari Prasad, with whom I coauthored a paper exposing serious flaws in...
View ArticleIndian E-Voting Researcher Freed After Seven Days in Police Custody
FLASH: 4:47 a.m. EDT August 28 — Indian e-voting researcher Hari Prasad was released on bail an hour ago, after seven days in police custody. Magistrate D. H. Sharma reportedly praised Hari and made...
View ArticleA Software License Agreement Takes it On the Chin
[Update: This post was featured on Slashdot.] [Update: There are two discrete ways of asking whether a court decision is "correct." The first is to ask: is the law being applied the same way here as it...
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