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...bigger worry concerns something that is least likely to happen--that someone will somehow meddle with the devices and manipulate vote tallies. It's not impossible. Princeton computer scientist Edward Felten and a couple of graduate students this past summer tested the defenses of a voting machine made by Diebold, a major manufacturer of such devices. Felten's team found three ways to insert into the machine rogue programs that allowed them to redistribute votes that had already been cast. In one instance, the testers had to take the machine apart with a screwdriver--an act likely to draw...
...work to exploit those flaws, Ferguson chose not to publish. He calls the situation "Orwellian": "Given the problems we have with lack of computer security, we need more research into it, not less." "We're seeing an erosion of the right to practice computer science," says Princeton's Ed Felten, who withheld research on flaws in security technology after the music industry threatened to sue. "You hear terms like tampering and hacking used to describe things that have long been done for legitimate purposes." The developing legal framework discourages such research by failing to distinguish well between legitimate and illegitimate...
Here's the movie pitch: a Princeton professor and two twentysomethings take less than five minutes to outsmart the world's largest software firm. Actually, that's no movie. Late last month government expert ED FELTEN sat down on a sofa in the Justice Department "war room" with two grads from his computer-science program--PETER CREATH, 23, and CHRISTIAN HICKS, 24--and stuck a tape in the VCR. Up came Microsoft's demonstration of how Felten's program to remove Internet Explorer made Windows run slower, important evidence for the defense in the ongoing antitrust suit. Almost immediately...
Recent research demonstrates that these stress hormones also have a direct impact on the body's immunological defenses against disease. "Anything involved with meditation and controlling the state of mind that alters hormone activity has the potential to have an impact on the immune system," says David Felten, chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Rochester...
Patricia G. Felten...