[governance] Securing Digital Democracy
Nyangkwe Agien Aaron
nyangkweagien at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 14:23:25 EDT 2012
Many thanks Jim
I just registered
Aaron
On 9/4/12, Carlos Vera Quintana <cveraq at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 excelent!
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> Carlos
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> Enviado desde mi iPhone
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> El 04/09/2012, a las 11:58, Nnenna <nne75 at yahoo.com> escribió:
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>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> https://www.coursera.org/course/digitaldemocracy
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Sign Up
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> James S. Tyre
>> Law Offices of James S. Tyre
>> 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512
>> Culver City, CA 90230-4969
>> 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax)
>> jstyre at jstyre.com
>> Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
>> https://www.eff.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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