http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-dc-dcelections-heari,0,541741.story
A University of Michigan professor who with his students hacked a prototype D.C. voting website and had it play the school's fight song said Friday that it will be decades, if ever, before voting can be performed safely over the Internet.
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"Clearly stealthiness was not our main objective. Otherwise we wouldn't have played the fight song," Halderman said. "A real attack might be completely invisible and could have run on undetected much, much longer."
Bruce Schneier - Hacking Trial Breaks D.C. Internet Voting System
Sounds like it was easy.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/hacking_trial_b.html
Eat your heart out Diebold
http://newyorkbrits.blogspot.com/2010/10/eat-your-heart-out-diebold.html
Stuxnet worm ushers in cyber war threat to nuclear plants
http://nuclear-news.net/2010/10/05/stuxnet-worm-ushers-in-cyber-war-threat-to-nuclear-plants/
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2010/1005/Pentagon-The-global-cyberwar-is-just-beginning The Pentagon and its NATO allies are looking at how to improve their defenses against a cyberwar, but the basic question of how to define a cyberattack is complicating efforts.
NATO faces more than defense challenges as cyber threats grow
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6072197,00.html Cyber attacks on defense systems are a concern for NATO. NATO plans to reform its mutual protection policy to include the increasing threat of cyber attack. But while protecting member nations from computer viruses is a huge task in itself, it is far from the only challenge.
National
Chamber of Commerce Denies Foreign Money Funding Campaign Ads
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20018631-503544.html
The details of the allegations are a little complicated, but to put it as simply as possible: Think Progress is alleging that foreign chapters of the Chamber in places like Bahrain (which are known as "AmChams") funnel money to the U.S. Chamber. That money, Think Progress says, ends up in the fund that pays for campaign ads.
In the statement denying the report, Freeman said "AmChams are independent organizations and they do not fund political programs in the United States."
International
India: Experts to review 'paper trail' for EVMs
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/experts-review-paper-trail-evms-781
Ireland: Ã "š ¬50m voting machines to be turned into 'traffic cones or fleeces'
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/euro50m-voting-machines-to-be-turned-into-traffic-cones-or-fleeces-2368702.html
The machines, which were bought eight years ago at a cost of à "š ¬50m, will now have to be shredded and recycled at an additional cost to the taxpayer after the Government received "no serious offers" to buy them.
Ireland: Cowen admits à "š ¬50m spent on electronic voting is gone(YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65seQoK4wOM&feature=youtube_gdata
You can read the full transcript of the exchange on the Oireachtas website here http://bit.ly/9tnBno
Scotland: New laws to avoid election fiasco
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5giSLNQ8i94sw2JDD8A-vycv253jw?docId=N0169671286547968472A
The Local Electoral Administration (Scotland) Bill is the latest measure to be introduced following the publication of the Gould Report, commissioned after more than 100,000 ballot papers were rejected in the 2007 Holyrood and council elections.
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