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Hacking Democracy On Securing an Election (Shmoocon 2020)

Democracy is the cornerstone of America’s Constitution, identity, and ideology, and this foundation was shaken during the 2016 Presidential Election.

By Casey Ellis · 01 Feb 2020
Policy

Crowdsourcing physics

Ok, time for some hard chats. I’m posting this following on from a series of conversations and reactions on Twitter and Slack/Discord, and a couple of articles that left

By Casey Ellis · 02 Jan 2020
dontgetpwned

The Golden Rule of Avoiding Fraud

This is a simple one that I told my mother-in-law the other day. It won’t protect you from everything, but it will greatly reduce your exposure. Don’t comply with an

By Casey Ellis · 05 Dec 2011
dontgetpwned

Is a 3 Year Old All that's Between You and Getting pwned?

Here’s some food for thought… Would you trust a 3 year old: * …with access to your mortgage? * …to keep your house secure? * …with the security of your bank accounts

By Casey Ellis · 22 Sep 2011
Policy

Privacy and Confidentiality — Yours or mine?

WARNING: Mild rant ahead. I’m writing this post to out a particular behavior that I am seeing more and more often lately. Example 1: Whilst activating a prepaid

By Casey Ellis · 21 Jul 2011
Policy

What Is Disposable Email and Why Do I Care

One of the complaints I hear ALL THE TIME goes something like this… Ugh, I have so much SPAM in my inbox… Even with filtering I still spend about half my time sortin

By Casey Ellis · 04 Feb 2011
Policy

On LinkedIn and Privacy

On my personal Twitter, I’ll follow just about anyone and let most people follow me. Twitter is about common interest. On my Facebook profile I’m a little more cautious a

By Casey Ellis · 23 Jan 2011
Security

What Are You Really Sharing

I’ve noticed a lot of people putting up quizzes on Facebook lately, I did one of my own as well (although I can’t seem to find it now…). I got to thinking the kind of inf

By Casey Ellis · 17 Jan 2010