Famed author and Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow gave an impassioned speech on digital rights management.Theme: Many of the speakers rely on public data sources (such as the Certificate Transparency project) and Project Sonar as the foundation for their research. But reasonable, knowledgeable experts suggest a combination of electronic and paper ballots for the best security, as evidenced by this excellent NPR Science Friday discussion. The call to action post-Voting Village was generally that we, as a nation, should fall back to paper ballots. No one should really be surprised by that having physical access to a device almost guarantees a break given enough time and talent, and there was plenty of both at DC25. By the end of the conference, every single voting machine had surrendered to the hackers. The buzz on the first day was that most of the machines had fallen to hacks within 90 minutes of the opening. Given all the news around election meddling over the last six months, DC organizers were smart to include a new Voting Village where enthusiasts could pen-test the various voting machines used around United States. The Brand New Voting Pillage, oops I mean Voting Village You are also highly encouraged to listen to these talks if they become available on the DEF CON media server (or YouTube, whichever comes first). While I ponder my options for DC26, let’s recap some of the more interesting talks, events, and sub-communities from DC25. Because how many hacker talks can you attend over two decades before you start to lose your child-like sense of wonder? So I’m actively considering leaving DC26 to the younger people. And even though this year featured some pretty cool talks, I had a sense that I’ve seen this before.
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