[Cryptography] Senate Judiciary "Going Dark" https site is untrusted!

Henry Baker hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Wed Jul 8 20:08:02 EDT 2015


At 04:06 PM 7/8/2015, Tom Mitchell wrote:
>A mis configuration like this is ironic OR symptomatic that senate.gov certificates were hacked.
>
>Given that this is a 50:50 symptom of serious illegal activity or incompetence+misconfig
>it almost makes sense to report this to the DHS/FBI/TLA.

After you, Alphonse.

http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/07/04/2110207/researcher-who-reported-e-voting-vulnerability-targeted-by-police-raid-in-argentina

Police have raided the home of an Argentinian security professional who
discovered and reported several vulnerabilities in the electronic ballot
system (Google translation of Spanish original) to be used next week for
elections in the city of Buenos Aires.

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The FBI should take a page from the physicists: "if it isn't dark, it doesn't matter".



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