elections Leading voting machine company admits it lied, reveals that its voting machines ship backdoored, with pre-installed remote access software Cory Doctorow
lawsuits Smartmatic files a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, Giuliani, Powell Mark Frauenfelder
News Trump weirdly defensive of Russia in his first comments on Russian hack of U.S. government Xeni Jardin
News Cybersecurity agency warns of 'imminent, increased cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers" Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
voting machines are computers we put democracies inside of The electronic votes said he lost in a statistically impossible landslide, but the paper ballots said he won John Struan
law Judge orders the State of Georgia to be prepared for pen-and-paper balloting by March 2020 Cory Doctorow
security The voting machines that local officials swore were not connected to the internet have been connected to the internet for years Cory Doctorow
elections Voting machine companies: the names of our parent companies are trade secrets Cory Doctorow
national security Here's how hackers could hijack America's Wireless Emergency Alert system Xeni Jardin
censorship A critical flaw in Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of everything wrong with e-voting, security practice, and auditing firms Cory Doctorow
security Ebay is full of used voting machines full of real electoral data and riddled with security defects Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Defcon Voting Village report shows that hacking voting machines takes less time than voting Cory Doctorow
security US voting machine vendors and officials insist that it's OK to build wireless networking into election systems Cory Doctorow
security Here's everything that's wrong with America's insecure electronic voting machines, and what to do about it Cory Doctorow