[governance] Securing Digital Democracy

Tue Sep 4 13:15:32 EDT 2012

+1 excelent!

Carlos

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El 04/09/2012, a las 11:58, Nnenna <nne75 at yahoo.com> escribió:

> Thanks for the info, James.  I just signed up for the course!
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> From: James S. Tyre <jstyre at jstyre.com>
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:49 PM
> Subject: [governance] Securing Digital Democracy
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> This is a free online course by University of Michigan CS Prof Alex Halderman, an expert
> in the field.  Officially it started yesterday, but one can register and start when one
> wants.  I could be wrong (I often am), but I thought it might interest some here.
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> https://www.coursera.org/course/digitaldemocracy
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> Securing Digital Democracy
> J. Alex Halderman
> In this course, you'll learn what every citizen should know about the security risks--and
> future potential - of electronic voting and Internet voting.
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> Sign Up
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> Watch intro video
> Started on: 3 September 2012 (5 weeks long)
> Workload: 2-3 hours/week 
> Information, Technology, and Design
> Computer Science: Systems, Security, Networking
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> About the Course
> Computer technology has transformed how we participate in democracy. The way we cast our
> votes, the way our votes are counted, and the way we choose who will lead are increasingly
> controlled by invisible computer software. Most U.S. states have adopted electronic
> voting, and countries around the world are starting to collect votes over the Internet.
> However, computerized voting raises startling security risks that are only beginning to be
> understood outside the research lab, from voting machine viruses that can silently change
> votes to the possibility that hackers in foreign countries could steal an election. This
> course will provide the technical background and public policy foundation that 21st
> century citizens need to understand the electronic voting debate. You'll learn how
> electronic voting and Internet voting technologies work, why they're being introduced, and
> what problems they aim to solve. You'll also learn about the computer- and
> Internet-security risks these systems face and the serious vulnerabilities that recent
> research has demonstrated. We'll cover widely used safeguards, checks, and balances - and
> why they are often inadequate. Finally, we'll see how computer technology has the
> potential to improve election security, if it's applied intelligently. Along the way,
> you'll hear stories from the lab and from the trenches on a journey that leads from Mumbai
> jail cells to the halls of Washington, D.C. You'll come away from this course
> understanding why you can be confident your own vote will count - or why you should
> reasonably be skeptical.
> 
> About the Instructor(s)
> J. Alex Halderman is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the
> University of Michigan. His research spans computer security and tech-centric public
> policy, including topics such as software security, data privacy, electronic voting,
> censorship resistance, and cybercrime, as well as technological aspects of intellectual
> property law and government regulation. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. 
> A noted expert on electronic voting security, Prof. Halderman helped demonstrate the first
> voting machine virus, participated in California's "top-to-bottom" electronic voting
> review, and exposed election security flaws in India, the world's largest democracy. He
> recently led a team from the University of Michigan that hacked into Washington D.C.'s
> Internet voting system. In his spare time, he reprogrammed a touch-screen voting machine
> to play Pac-Man 
> 
> Recommended Background
> Most of this course will be accessible to non-technical students. We will provide optional
> materials for those with some college-level computer science background.
> 
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