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Dan Wallach

@danwallach

RAND Center for AI, Security, and Technology (CAST) @dwallach@discuss.systems

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Joined July 2009
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1) Hi, everyone. I wanted to share with you the scary recent experience I had with my original Twitter account, @Aaron_Derfel, which was hacked two days ago, and how I fear this raises serious concerns about the future of this social media platform.
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Ian Brown@igb4 Dec 2022
The @TwitterSpaces team no longer works at Twitter and is currently looking to get hired as team/package deal. These folks are top-notch large-scale social audio engineers and worth $$$ to any Twitter competitor. – at San Francisco, CA
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Great work by Twitter Spaces team!
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1/20 Dear friends, I need to draw your attention to something super bad and super important (and it doesn’t originate from Russia for once). Last week the EU has taken a shockingly stupid and damaging decision to close down national corporate registers of beneficial owners 🧵🧵🧵
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New GitHub search is 🔥🔥🔥
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🧵"Twitter 2.0" is trending. I'm a foremost expert on this and let me tell you what you should do: quit, take the 3 month severance with your friends, and build the 2.0 version yourself. Musk will give up and buy your company in a couple years.
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Lea Kissner@LeaKissner16 Nov 2022
A buddy who's interested in end-to-end encryption (E2EE) but hasn't done one of these projects in the very messy place which is the real world happened to ask me this morning about pitfalls which might not be obvious. So here's a partial list in the hopes that it's helpful. 🧵
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#Voter confidence and #election accuracy will be critical on #ElectionDay in the US and abroad. Computer-aided confirmation of vote tallies can help assure both. Read all about it in bit.ly/ACMTechBrief #5 on "risk-limiting audits," out today. bit.ly/RLAsWork!
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Don Palmer@VotingGuy1 Sep 2022
Replying to @EACgov @CISAgov @RiceUniversity
Panel #2: Security and Technology in Elections @danwallach with @RiceUniversity @BakerInstitute; @SLICompliance Traci Mapps; Acting Assistant Director, NRMC @CISAgov Mona Harrington; moderated by @EACgov Vice-Chair Christy McCormick
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The second #HAVA20 panel discussion, “Security and Technology in Elections,” begins in 30 minutes. The coordination between government officials and the private sector to secure elections and the integration of technology in the electoral process. youtube.com/watch?v=Jwa13QIU…
“20 Years of HAVA” logo. Text reads “Building Trust in Elections. Panel 2: Security and Technology in Elections.” Photos of panelists Vice Chair McCormick, Dan Wallach, Traci Mapps, and Mona Harrington.

ALT “20 Years of HAVA” logo. Text reads “Building Trust in Elections. Panel 2: Security and Technology in Elections.” Photos of panelists Vice Chair McCormick, Dan Wallach, Traci Mapps, and Mona Harrington.

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New from me: Public records requests to nearly 100 Texas school districts reveals an unprecedented surge in book ban attempts. Titles about race, sex, gender & sexuality are getting yanked by the dozens. Students and librarians are pushing back. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tex… @NBCNews

Book banning in Texas schools: Titles are pulled off library shelves in record numbers

Facing pressure from parents and threats of criminal charges, some districts have ignored policies meant to prevent censorship. Librarians and students are pushing back.

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(1/2) Today is Dana's last day as Travis County Clerk. From digitizing the office to leading national efforts in developing a verifiable paper trail voting system, she has spent the last 35 years transforming the Clerk's office and Travis County.
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I am so thrilled that our Provost, @RDesRoches has been named as Rices’s eighth president!!
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We're hiring 2 experienced software engineers to join our team building election technology all Americans can trust. Applications welcome throughout the month of August. voting.works/2021-eng-jobs
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Unless we can implement vaccine mandates for schools for adolescent students teachers staff and universal masks I can’t imagine how we can successfully get through August and September
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Eric Mill@konklone7 Aug 2021
In any system that attempts to balance surveillance of bad stuff against fundamental security and privacy guarantees, the most important attribute it needs to have is public auditability. 1/
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“Had you honored your commitment to contact us in advance, we would have pointed out that the consent decree does not bar Facebook from creating exceptions for good-faith research in the public interest.” Good on @FTC for quickly correcting this nonsense. ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/co…
Letter from Acting Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection Samuel Levine to Facebook

Letter from Acting Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection Samuel Levine to Facebook

Today, Acting Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection Samuel Levine sent the following letter to Mark Zuckerberg concerning Facebook’s misleading claims regarding the co

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The level of SARS-CoV-2 in Houston's wastewater is 320% more than the benchmark level of July 6, 2020. This is an indication virus is rapidly spreading and the increase in #COVID19 cases will likely continue. Free vaccination sites: houstonemergency.org, 832-393-4220. #HouNews
Two maps of Houston color coded to show wasterwater virus load.

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ICYMI: Can developing secure #voting technology build confidence in U.S. #elections? Earlier this week, @mcranechilders, @danwallach, Veronica Degraffenreid and Ryan Macias discussed this question in our fourth event with @CarterCenter. (Re)watch it here: bit.ly/3ocb0er
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In Harris Co TX, where @DanWallach lives, they put up drive-thru voting tents & opened 24-hour vote centers. Both were popular & helped with accessibility. Despite pushback from the TX legislature, he thinks these practices will spread b/c they’re good ideas. #CarterBakerElection
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Join @mcranechilders, @danwallach, Veronica Degraffenreid & Ryan Macias on Monday May 17 at 11:30 am CDT for a discussion about how to make #voting technology more secure. This is the fourth event in our series with @CarterCenter on #ElectionReform. RSVP: bit.ly/3ocb0er
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