Dear colleagues,
I've written a brief conference report (well... a debate report) from today's event.
I hope this is of interest, Christian
Christian's post reminded me that we had an occurence here that might be of interest...that I forgot to note for the group. Our student government, in cooperation with computing services, held online elections for student officers is past spring. Both sponsoring parties were "sure" about security. It failed. The vote was compromised by users who obtained user log ons and passwords [no one is saying how or how many] and voted [no one is saying how or how many times] illegally. The election had to be reheld, the old way. HUGE inconvenience. Computing services has now put in good lord knows how many hours across all of their security procedures, including a new firewall (planned before the snafu). Anecdotes (esp. from small and relatively insignificant places) don't set the course of technological change. However, early adopters' experiences do seem to "add up," sometimes. We are a little skittish here, now... Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph.D. Associate Professor Speech Communication and Multimedia Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion http://gcc.bradley.edu/com/faculty/lamoureux/rsca/index.html