Making Voting Easy is Scaring the Life Out of Security Experts
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight which landed the first two humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module, Eagle, on July 20, 1969. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours later, and Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later. The two astronauts spent about two and a quarter hours […]
Finding a Security Flaw in Internet Voting is a Good Thing
Swiss law guarantees that every Swiss citizen has the right to vote, whether or not they currently live in the country. Overseas citizens have previously pushed for e-voting, arguing that postal methods are frequently delayed, making them unreliable. Votes are also a much more common occurrence in Switzerland, whose system of direct democracy calls for […]
Internet Voting: Are we Getting Closer?
AlterNet, this week, published “2020 will be the year that online voting really takes hold in the U.S.— here are some of its biggest challenges“. Steven Rosenfeld did an excellent job of outlining the issues surrounding the lack of political and technological will to enfranchise the 100 million people who could not get to the […]
Estonian e-everything
The Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered on the north by the Gulf of Finland, on the west by the Baltic Sea, on the south by Latvia, and on the east by Russia. Some years ago, I was on a Baltic cruise which made a […]
Amazing Landing on Mars
This was a big week for NASA. The InSight spacecraft traveled 300 million miles to the red planet, slowed down from 13,000 mph to 5 mph and then gently landed on the dusty surface of Mars. Less celebrated but also technologically amazing was the MarCO project. Two CubeSats, made up of 4 inch square cubes […]