Richard DeMillo
@rad_atl
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Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, author, executive, Ducati owner, grandfather. Avoid opinion. Seek critical thought.
Atlanta
Joined March 2015
Reading recent exchanges with promoters of #BallotMarkingDevices & noticing how effective @Kasparov63 advice is: If the facts are simple just keep repeating them. #HandMarkedPaperBallots are widely available for most voters (via mail). They're Covid safe and not hackable.
@Kasparov63 Like this: Ballot marking devices have an essential security flaw. Like all computers they can be hacked, misprogrammed, misconfigured, misused. Printed ballots from machines can’t be trusted as expressions of voter intent, so no audit or recount can detect cheating.
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Get the skinny on what's in the unsealed documents in Georgia’s long running lawsuit aimed at throwing out universal use Ballot Marking Devices on @TheBradBlog
Federal Judge Unseals Expert Report on GA Voting System, Revealing Horrific Vulnerabilities: Today's #BradCast Guest: Richard DeMillo (@rad_atl) of Georgia Tech; Also: MI's failed SoS candidate, GOP chair sanctioned for election suit FULL STORY, LISTEN: https://t.co/e9R47lM6GG
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Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy invites applications to access the newly established Election Security Research Facility (ESRF), intended to be the most comprehensive research resource for election technologies and other democracy-affirming institutions.
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14/ And learn why electronically marked paper ballots cannot assure the will of the people. By Appel, @philipbstark and @rad_atl
https://t.co/kIgxqQnZX3
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Is it time to withdraw from whatever Twitter is becoming? Just today: Trolling, bots, links to media “stories” promising new bombshell reveals about Nancy Pelosi, vaguely worded threats and Musk hasn’t even fully lifted the bans on problem accounts yet. Not a good trajectory.
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Well. that didn't take long: my family already already targeted not for their tweets or mine but for their fact-based MSM journalism. Even modest guardrails already down | Twitter's Content Moderation Team Reportedly Unable to Work Amid Musk Takeover
gizmodo.com
Ahead of midterms, the system that normally functions with hundreds of human moderators is currently relying on around 15 people to manage content violations.
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In the wake of GA's voting system breach, Dr. Andrew Appel's short article about BMDs is worth rereading! It's written for us laymen, to help us understand why BMDs don't produce quality elections. ⬇️ https://t.co/0hOPtOhUDq
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Nothing in what I said should be taken as claim that machines were actually hacked. We have been clear on this point for months.
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I dont know why Ben is replying to me but since he did, let me say this is nonsense. It contradicts everything vendors/SOS claimed for 20 years about secret security methods. Oh and it does lower the bar for discovering vulnerabilities. Not fatal but doesnt inspire confidence.
@MarilynRMarks1 @rad_atl As I explained in the thread, that aspect matters little. Change credentials, move on. Access to the software, even for months by many people, is not a serious issue.
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One thing that especially undermines elections and voter confidence is deliberate misinformation. @benadida may not know that the breach spanned many hours and days, involving numerous actors with computer science backgrounds - but @GabrielSterling must know that. Facts matter.
Thank you @benadida for being a rational expert in elections. And he’s right…the fear mongers need to stop. Their statements undermine Americans’ faith in elections…the same outcome as Trump’s stolen election claims. Often they say the same thing & reinforce each other.
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@PamelaEdwards @MarilynRMarks1 @drjefferson @ElizabethMcG2 @KimZetter Sampling has nothing to do with it. Here's why: If adversaries can be assured that half the cast ballots are unexamined, they can easily calculate how many ballots to change to achieve desired outcome with a given margin without detection.
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Magical thinking about ballot-marking device (BMD) security, discussed by Andrew Appel. https://t.co/FVkmB1TR2e
@jhalderm @CoalitionGoodGv @rad_atl
blog.citp.princeton.edu
The Center for Democracy and Technology recently published a report, “No Simple Answers: A Primer on Ballot Marking Device Security”, by William T. Adler. Overall, it’s well-informed, clearly...
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Magical thinking about Ballot-Marking-Device contingency plans
blog.citp.princeton.edu
The Center for Democracy and Technology recently published a report, “No Simple Answers: A Primer on Ballot Marking Device Security”, by William T. Adler. Overall, it’s well-informed, clearly...
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Want to know what really happened in Antrim County during the 2020 election? I just posted a peer-reviewed paper based on the investigation I did for the Michigan SOS and AG. It will appear at @USENIXSecurity in August. https://t.co/QANSH7EdRL
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Trump's false election claims made it tougher to talk about election security
washingtonpost.com
Legitimate security concerns are twisted and misrepresented.
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Cybersecurity in Jan 6 Hearings Day 2 (2:04:40 mark) | Rep. Lofgren introduces a letter I co-signed with 58 colleagues stating that the existence of vulnerabilities is not evidence that Dominion systems were hacked in 2020. https://t.co/KYT5LxVdh4 via @YouTube
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2/ The alleged breach happened 18 months ago and @GaSecofState has done nothing but conceal the dangerous breach from election officials, GA voters and the press. Note the nonchalance with which his office responds--"we take investigations seriously." What invstigation??
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