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

[Brent Turner]

David--

Do you know anyone like that .. a person who would take their time-pro bono
-and dedicate years of their life to educate and persuade others toward the
goal of maintaining a proper democracy ?

Boy if I met a person like that I would shake their hand and nominate them
for a nice plaque.

Oh..  wait.. that' us...  and CAVO ...ha ha

xxoo

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 5:53 PM, David RR Webber (XML) <david at drrw.info>
wrote:

> Brent,
>
> This is just window dressing IMHO. And keeping the status quo in situ.
>
> These bureaucrats will not fix or change anything, and whatever changes
> they institute will be easily by passed.
>
> 8 years from now - they, and their consultants, will still be talking
> about the same issues. We've seen this movie over and over.
>
> Implementing real transparent and secure systems with a common
> infrastructure using open public standards and open source - just as we
> have with tools like Apache web server - does not happen through government
> facilitation.
>
> It is going to take a champion to step up and lead this forward - and then
> grow it organically from there. Getting the States to buy-in to a proven
> solution set and collaborate together going forward.
>
> Truly herding cats.
>
> David
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [CAVO] After election, DHS will work with voting machine
> vendors on cybersecurity
> From: Brent Turner <turnerbrentm at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, November 05, 2016 11:47 am
> To: CAVO <cavo at opensource.org>
>
> 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> wrote:
>
>>
>> After election, DHS will work with voting machine vendors on cybersecurity
>> *From *News <http://flip.it/LLHLNa>*, a Flipboard magazine by *Flipboard
>> Newsdesk <https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk>
>> After next week, the Homeland Security Department plans to start working
>> with election machine vendors to make sure they're…
>> *Read it on Flipboard* <http://flip.it/GwlXZ4> *Read it on politico.com*
>> <http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/voting-machines-cybersecurity-homeland-security-230773>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department
>> Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
>> University of Florida
>> P.O. Box 116120
>> Gainesville, FL 32611 352.562.0784 (V)352.273.0738 (F)juan at ufl.edu
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