Beginning today, we have the honor of the presence of Dan Wallach and David Allen, experts on the computer vote rigging controversy, as subscribers to Newsroom-l, the news and issues list for professional journalists. I invited them to join the list to answer any questions you might have about this very controversial and vitally important topic.
In order to make it easier for non-subscribers to see the discussion and make comments, I will publish the pertinent results on the Newsroom-l blog . Folks who are receiving this on other lists can also subscribe to the newsroom-l email discussion list at http://www.newsroom-l.net/.
Our experts:
Dan Wallach is an assistant professor of computer science at Rice
University, specializing in the security of mobile code, distributed and
peer-to-peer systems. When opportunities present themselves, Wallach
has been involved in several "debunking" efforts. Before the Diebold
analysis, Wallach was part of a team that found flaws in the music
industry's secure digital music initiative (SDMI). Earlier still,
Wallach was part of a team that found flaws in the "sandbox" security of
Sun's Java system. He looks forward to your questions.
David Allen is the owner of Plan Nine Publishing, which he describes as
"the most unlikely publisher for a book like" Black Box Voting. For six
years he's specialized in turning funny electrons into funny books, i.e. web
comics into books. Before his foray into publishing, he worked for 16 years
as a systems engineer, installing, fixing, and teaching about computers. He
is accredited by Microsoft (MCSE), Compaq (ASE) CompTIA (A+ Tech) and a
number of other folks. He has also have freelanced writing articles and
columns for various computer publications.