[CAVO] After election, DHS will work with voting machine vendors on cybersecurity

[Lawrence Rosen]

Brent Turner wrote:

> Hopefully national security interests will be considered paramount to the corporate interests 

 

I just learned of a change to DMCA regulations from the Copyright Office specifically intended to satisfy national security interests. It will now be legal to investigate and decompile proprietary voting software despite it being protected by DMCA encryption or other features. 

 

While this is not the same as open source software, it does give us a mechanism to find faults in proprietary voting systems.

 

NOTE: Avoiding DMCA protections isn't automatic. Be sure to follow appropriate procedures to request the code before you decompile.

 

/Larry

 

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From: CAVO [mailto:cavo-bounces at opensource.org] On Behalf Of Brent Turner
Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2016 8:47 AM
To: CAVO <cavo at opensource.org>
Subject: Re: [CAVO] After election, DHS will work with voting machine vendors on cybersecurity

 

Yes--   we have been speaking to them about insider hacks and vulnerabilities as well as the " Cozy Bears " and the rest of Yogi's family..

 

The problem seems to be stipulated as the corporate owned proprietary software..   the lobbyists pressure form Microsoft and the vendors.that don't want open source etc..  

 

Hopefully national security interests will be considered paramount to the corporate interests 

 

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Juan E. Gilbert <juan at ufl.edu <mailto:juan at ufl.edu> > wrote:

 


After election, DHS will work with voting machine vendors on cybersecurity


>From  <http://flip.it/LLHLNa> News, a Flipboard magazine by  <https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk> Flipboard Newsdesk

After next week, the Homeland Security Department plans to start working with election machine vendors to make sure they're…

 <http://flip.it/GwlXZ4> 


 <http://flip.it/GwlXZ4> Read it on Flipboard


 <http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/voting-machines-cybersecurity-homeland-security-230773> 


 <http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/voting-machines-cybersecurity-homeland-security-230773> Read it on politico.com










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