Paper ballots should not have barcodes to mark votes; paper ballots should have barcodes to mark ballot styles.  Why is that?  What’s the difference?  And at the end, I describe a useful innovation from a company called Voting.works.   One of the most important reasons we use paper ballots in elections is to protect our elections […] The post Barcodes on paper ballots: the good, the bad, and the stealth appeared first on Freedom to Tinker ..read more

On Monday, March 4, 2024, CITP and DeCenter co-hosted a workshop on the topic of decentralized social media. The invite-only workshop brought together a diverse group of leaders and innovators from the growing decentralized social media sphere, including scholars, engineers, and administrators who actively study, build, and manage decentralized social networks such as Mastodon, Bluesky, […] The post Five Themes Discussed at Princeton’s Workshop on Decentralized Social Media appeared first on Freedom to Tinker ..read more

This letter, signed by more than 20 election cybersecurity experts, was addressed to the Pennsylvania State Senate Committee on Government in response to a request for policy advice, but it applies in any state — especially those that use Ballot Marking Devices for all in-person voters: Georgia and South Carolina; most counties in Arkansas, New […] The post Suggested Principles for State Statutes Regarding Ballot Marking and Vote Tabulation appeared first on Freedom to Tinker ..read more

By Henry Birge-Lee, Grace Cimaszewski, Liang Wang, Cyrill Krähenbühl, Kerstin Fagerstrom, and Prateek Mittal Today we are announcing the development of a new open source project by our research group at Princeton University designed to strengthen certificate issuance against Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing attacks. Recent years have seen an uptick in a very powerful […] The post Announcing the Open Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration Project appeared first on Freedom to Tinker ..read more

CITP is releasing a report today based on a two day in-person workshop on the security of the Web Public Key Infrastructure (Web PKI) we held last year. The workshop convened a multistakeholder gathering of experts from across the internet infrastructure, including browser developers, certificate authorities, content delivery networks, cloud providers, civil society, and academia. […] The post Securing the Web PKI appeared first on Freedom to Tinker ..read more

Twenty years ago, social media companies started telling us: “Hey, use this free digital mediaproduct!” We individually used it, or didn’t. And then we all used it, because we had to. Just like the car.The existence of the technology restricts human freedom and agency. The die has been cast:social media has reshaped everything and to […] The post Building the Society We Want: A CITP Conference appeared first on Freedom to Tinker ..read more

Apply here now to be part of the Siegel Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship! Artificial intelligence, privacy and security, social media platforms and the internet are influencing all sectors of society — from the justice system and banking, to online shopping and the way we work. Indeed, the demand for expertise is great. Each summer, […] The post Rising Juniors and Seniors – Do you want to make an impact with public interest technology this summer? appeared first on Freedom to Tinker ..read more

Do you work at the intersection of tech and society? The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) are accepting applications for an assistant, associate or full professor whose work aligns with CITP’s three priorities areas: platforms and digital infrastructure; data science and society, and privacy […] The post We’re hiring an assistant, associate or full professor! appeared first on Freedom to Tinker ..read more

Last year, I published a 5-part series about Switzerland’s e-voting system.  Like any internet voting system, it has inherent security vulnerabilities: if there are malicious insiders, they can corrupt the vote count; and if thousands of voters’ computers are hacked by malware, the malware can change votes as they are transmitted.   Switzerland “solves” the […] The post Switzerland’s e-voting system has predictable implementation blunder appeared first on Freedom to Tinker ..read more

Experts from industry, academia and government share lessons learned and outline a path forward at a Princeton-Stanford workshop Author Kevin Klyman is a researcher at the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models and M.A. candidate at Stanford University. Foundation models are the centerpiece of the modern AI ecosystem, leading to rapid innovation, deployment, and […] The post How to Promote Responsible Open Foundation Models appeared first on Freedom to Tinker ..read more