<div dir="ltr">David-- <div><br></div><div>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 ? </div><div><br></div><div>Boy if I met a person like that I would shake their hand and nominate them for a nice plaque. </div><div><br></div><div>Oh.. wait.. that' us... and CAVO ...ha ha </div><div><br></div><div>xxoo </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 5:53 PM, David RR Webber (XML) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@drrw.info" target="_blank">david@drrw.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000;font-size:10pt"><div>Brent,</div><div><br></div><div>This is just window dressing IMHO. And keeping the status quo in situ.</div><div><br></div><div>These bureaucrats will not fix or change anything, and whatever changes they institute will be easily by passed.</div><div><br></div><div>8 years from now - they, and their consultants, will still be talking about the same issues. We've seen this movie over and over.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Truly herding cats.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [CAVO] After election, DHS will work with voting machine<br>
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From: Brent Turner <<a href="mailto:turnerbrentm@gmail.com" target="_blank">turnerbrentm@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Sat, November 05, 2016 11:47 am<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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..<div><br></div><div>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.. </div><div><br></div><div>Hopefully national security interests will be considered paramount to the corporate interests </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Juan E. Gilbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juan@ufl.edu" target="_blank">juan@ufl.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <br> <h2 style="font-family:georgia;font-weight:100">After election, DHS will work with voting machine vendors on cybersecurity</h2> <div style="font-family:georgia;color:#999999"><em>From </em><a style="color:#999999" href="http://flip.it/LLHLNa" target="_blank">News</a><em>, a Flipboard magazine by </em><a style="color:#999999" href="https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk" target="_blank">Flipboard Newsdesk</a></div> <div style="font-family:georgia">After next week, the Homeland Security Department plans to start working with election machine vendors to make sure they're…</div> <a href="http://flip.it/GwlXZ4" target="_blank"> <h3 style="font-family:sans-serif;color:#0099cc"><u>Read it on Flipboard</u></h3> </a><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/voting-machines-cybersecurity-homeland-security-230773" target="_blank"> <h4 style="font-family:sans-serif;color:#999"><u>Read it on politico.com</u></h4> </a> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <pre class="m_-3516325146756894600m_-1298668162966532153moz-signature" cols="72">--
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