Internet & Democracy Blog » Internet and Democracy Releases Report on Arabic Blogosphere. After much work over the past year, the Internet and Democracy Project team is proud to officially announce today the release of our study on the Arabic blogosphere, a follow-up to last year’s I&D study on the shape of the Iranian blogosphere. Our research identified a base network of approximately 35,000 blogs, and aimed to generate a baseline for understanding the state of online discourse in the region. As in our previous work, we’ve worked with John Kelly to visualize the data on over 6,000 of the most connected blogs and had researchers read over 4,000 blogs to understand who the bloggers are and the issues they care about. We’re excited to report that there’s some intriguing findings on the state of the networked public sphere in the Middle East, some highlights include: * The Demographics of Arab Bloggers: Demographic coding indicate that Arabic bloggers are predominately young and male.
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ECH21183109_1. Democracylive. Cyberdemocratie. E-communication and society: A cyber-house divided. E-Democratie. Programmeouti-09. Internet Democracy Project. Les Electronic Voting Machines. How I Hacked An Electronic Voting Machine. Roger Johnston is the head of the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory. Not long ago, he and his colleagues launched security attacks on electronic voting machines to demonstrate the startling ease with which one can steal votes. Even more startling: Versions of those machines will appear in polling places all over America on Tuesday. The touchscreen Diebold Accuvote-TSX will be used by more than 26 million voters in 20 states; the push-button Sequoia AVC Voting Machine will be used by almost 9 million voters in four states, Harper's magazine reported recently (subscription required). Here, Johnston reveals how he hacked the machines--and why anyone, from a high-school kid to an 80-year-old grandmother, could do the same.
--Ed It's called a man-in-the-middle attack. We used a logic analyzer. We can do this because most voting machines, as far as I can tell, are not encrypted. The device we implanted in the touchscreen machine was essentially $10 retail. Mavflippo2_2. How to use the eSlate Voting Machine.