{"id":15265,"date":"2024-06-02T19:38:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T02:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/?p=15265"},"modified":"2024-07-11T17:48:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T00:48:53","slug":"talk-hope-election-security-july-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/02\/talk-hope-election-security-july-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"My talk at HOPE XV: Survey and Scrutiny of Election Security: July 12-14, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Promo_DouglasLucas_SurveyScrutinyElectionSecurity_6May2024.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Promo video for my talk (also on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JILK7R5H70o\">youtube<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>ADDITIONAL UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/files\/ReadingList_ElectionSecurityHOPEXV_DouglasLucas_12July2024.pdf\">14-page PDF<\/a> I put together: a recommended resource list for this talk, presented July 12, 2024. The resource list contains the following sections: Books and papers; Documentaries; Reality Winner and Kremlin cyberattacks on 2016 elections; BMD vulnerabilities, Coffee County, Georgia elections office breach, and ongoing statewide voting software compromise; Election activism; General deep politics and activism; Douglas Lucas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> The conference schedule is <a href=\"https:\/\/hope.net\/schedule.html\">now available<\/a>. My talk is at 7 p.m. on Friday July 12 in Marillac Auditorium; 50 minutes total including Q&amp;A.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A decade ago, I was a panelist at HOPE X, the tenth Hackers on Planet Earth conference in New York City. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kcwEaaS6MrM\">Youtube<\/a> of that panel \u2014 on crowdsourcing research into the cyber-intelligence complex \u2014 still collects views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way home from the conference, I wrote a humorous <a href=\"https:\/\/thecryptosphere.com\/2014\/07\/23\/report-from-hope-x-surveillance-snowden-stratfor-and-surprises\/\">article<\/a> describing my experience: my surprising, then interviewing NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake; the private spies who showed up to surveil the panel and seemed more interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/journalism\">my articles<\/a> than most people I actually know are; my rooted smartphone getting hacked &#8230; Ah, wonderful times, so long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now \u2014 well, next month, July 12-14 \u2014 I&#8217;ll give a solo talk at HOPE XV titled <em>Survey and Scrutiny of Election Security<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait, what&#8217;s this conference again? Sponsored by the magazine <em>2600: The Hacker Quarterly<\/em>, HOPE is held every other year in New York City \u2014 previously in Manhattan, now in Queens at St. John&#8217;s University. Top-billed speakers over the years have included Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/ajes.12179\">frenemy of the state<\/a> Edward Snowden, you get the idea. Typical offerings include lockpicking villages, ham radio and vintage computer stuff, vendors, film screenings, socializing, controversy real or ginned up, private spies watching me, people hacking my phone &#8230; plus panels\/talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check out the conference website <a href=\"https:\/\/hope.net\/\">here<\/a>, speakers&#8217; bios <a href=\"https:\/\/hope.net\/speakers.html\">over here<\/a>, various promo videos HOPE requested <a href=\"https:\/\/hope.net\/videos.html\">way over here<\/a>, and short descriptions of every panel\/talk <a href=\"https:\/\/hope.net\/talks.html\">all the way over here<\/a>. The description for mine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Fake news or flawless? Our computerized elections are neither. To truly understand corporate, closed-source election computers requires understanding how they fit into the wider electoral system and its interlocking parts. Douglas&#8217;s investigative journalism will provide case studies documenting how it can go haywire: the 2016 Kremlin cyberattacks on U.S. election infrastructure exposed by whistleblower Reality Winner, the MAGA-led Coffee County elections office breach still compromising Georgia&#8217;s statewide voting software, and more. Such details will show how you can help secure elections: scrutineers, statistical forensics, free software voting companies &#8230; the list goes on. He will address democracy&#8217;s evolution, too, scrutinizing statist voting within the bigger picture of human collaboration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll create an online reading list for attendees interested in learning more, as well as an overview diagram of the election system&#8217;s interlocking parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of this writing, I don&#8217;t know which exact day and time my talk will be, but the conference website should be updated with that information any moment [see update above]. If you decide to attend and want to get together, email me: <a href=\"mailto:DAL@RISEUP.NET\">dal@riseup.net<\/a>. I plan to arrive a day early and stay a day after. Otherwise just watch my talk afterward on Youtube or at the happenin&#8217; headquarters of DouglasLucas.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will I get into any zany HOPE incidents this decade around? Probably. If I encounter anyone from Homeland Security&#8217;s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) \u2014 their three uses of the word <em>security<\/em> there totally isn&#8217;t overcompensation or anything \u2014 I have some remarks for them, including regarding my potential lawsuit over their FOIA deni&#8230; but that&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just remind me not to root my phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"15284\" src=\"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hopeconf2-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hopeconf2-1024x600.jpg 1024w, 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