DAGR Weekly Reader W1-JUN
"Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody." ~ Ted Bell, author
Ukraine Drone Strikes on Russian Airbases
The audacious attacks exploited holes that exist in everyone’s airspace management and revealed that any country is vulnerable to the same kind of attack.
The Conversation UK, Jun 2, 2025
George Clooney Reveals the Goodnight, and Good Luck Line He Couldn't Get Right
Clooney talks about making the stage play about Edward R. Murrow and the meaning we still value of reporting the real news, not the hype and propaganda stuff that proliferates the airwaves.
Late Night with Seth Myers, JUN 3, 2025
Securing the Vote - Parts 1 and 2
1: Flaky paper won’t secure our elections without a protocol to go with it
Two decades of research back up this look at possible ways to secure the integrity of the vote. It’s a highly complex system, with over 9000 jurisdictions to train and account for. And securing it is not as easy as vote suppression forces would have us believe.
– by Andrew Appel, Prof. Computer Science, Princeton U, CITP Blog, May 22, 2025.
2: Paper fingerprinting and ballot tracking
Prof. Appel goes into the weeds, to look at how flaky papers can be used to create a ‘fingerprint’ for each ballot cast. And these can be audited later to make sure the ballot and the recorded vote for that ballot are the same.
– by Andrew Appel, Prof. Computer Science, Princeton U, CITP Blog, May 23, 2025.
Old News
The Plot Against George Soros (2019)
Behind the Soros boogeyman myth is the story of modern political consultancy. Theory: You can’t change people’s minds but you can demoralize them so they won’t vote for your opponent. Dirty campaign ads were reborn, and Soros was the test case. A must read for those planning strategies.
Hannes Grassegger, Buzzfeed News, Jan 20, 2019