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Journey of online ballot cast in Northwest Territories election.

New Chrome “Not Secure” warning for insecure HTTP connections

The question of online voting in Ontario municipalities is heating up as we approach the election in October. I did an interview for CBC News over the weekend about the many fundamental challenges to online voting, including why it’s not like online banking, and more like one of the...

I did an interview last week on CBC’s Radio One’s The Current (starting at the 6:00 mark) about the Atlanta ransomware attack, and what it means for Canada’s municipalities and their plans for online voting this October.

[Update Feb 15th] Was interviewed in the CBC about this.

If you are going to run an election online you need to protect yourself against distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS). You can hire a cloud-based service to provide DDoS protection, but how much trust are you placing in them?

I recently did a Q&A for the Globe and Mail about how artificial intelligence is changing the nature of cybersecurity, both for better and for worse. Like blockchains, AI has captured the zeitgeist and suddenly people who like to think about hammers are seeing nails almost everywhere.

The CSE just released a report detailing cyber threats to Canada’s democratic process. In light of this week’s most compelling publicly-made case to date that election hacking at the nation-state level is a thing, election agencies from the federal level all the way down to private, non-governmental elections...

I was on CHRW 94.9FM Radio Western this afternoon talking about the WannaCry ransomware attack. Make sure those Windows updates are turned on! Hear the interview here: