He doesn’t expect the notoriously secretive companies will take him up on the offer.
“You’re getting something that would be hard to pay for – why not embrace it?” he said. He noted that Tesla sent its vice president in the past when hackers were targeting self-driving cars. Moss said he’d be happy to have the voting machine companies be actively involved, bring their voting machines, and help learn from the event. "Anybody who says they’re un-hackable just doesn’t know what they’re talking about.” “That answer in and of itself shows a total lack of sophistication in cyber security,” Braun said. He laughs at the voting machine companies which insist there’s nothing to worry about. “It’ll be good to get some independent folks who don’t have an ax to grind one way or the other.” “Up until now, the voting machines companies keep telling us everything is totally secure, when everyone in cybersecurity knows there’s nothing that’s totally secure, it’s all just a matter of risk mitigation,” Braun said. Jake Braun, a White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security under Obama, and currently a cybersecurity lecturer at the University of Chicago and CEO of Cambridge Global, said he’s hoping the event helps produce a report for DHS and Congress about the problems. “Also, vendors are frequently blatantly mispresenting the specifications and the properties of the equipment they sell to the jurisdictions.” This means that the old systems which were designed with no security consciousness are not being replaced with responsibly designed successors,” said Harri Hursti, a Finnish computer programmer who has worked on election-related issues in Finland, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Argentina and the United States. “Election machines used in USA really do not have security standards - the voluntary voting system standard addresses air humidity and shock resistance, but not security. Moss and other organizers are at the early stages of planning, locating used voting machines on eBay and elsewhere, and they’re already anticipating the excuses that any success they have hacking will be dismissed by the companies as not being up to date with their systems. “Pretty much, just like everything else, it’s time for hackers to come in and tell you what’s possible and what’s not,” Moss said. He said he’s concerned that no one has proven where the soft spots are-and the combination of non-disclosure agreements and private contracts have allowed misinformation to take root. It's both highly competitive with existing methods while generalizing well to new use cases. Moss (also known as Dark Tangent) is a former member of Obama’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. StarSpace is a general purpose neural embedding model that can be applied to a number of machine learning tasks including ranking, classification, information retrieval, similarity learning, and recommendations. “That’s the point: we’re only going to play with them for a couple of days, but bad guys can play with them for weeks or years,” Moss said. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service.
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