CITP Blog is hosted by Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Here you’ll find comment and analysis from the digital frontier, written by the Center’s faculty, students, and friends.
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Part 1 of a 5-part series If I can shop and bank online, why can’t I vote online? David Jefferson explained in 2011 why internet voting is so difficult…
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Most top websites are not following best practices in their password policies
By Kevin Lee, Sten Sjöberg, and Arvind Narayanan Compromised passwords have consistently been the number one cause of data breaches by far, yet passwords remain the most common means of…
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Dcentral vs. Consensus: Are institutions “frens” or enemies of crypto?
As a part of an ethnographic study on blockchain organizations, I recently attended two major conferences – Dcentral Con and Consensus – held back-to-back in Austin, Texas during a blistering…
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A PDF File Is Not Paper, So PDF Ballots Cannot Be Verified
A new paper by Henry Herrington, a computer science undergraduate at Princeton University, demonstrates that a hacked PDF ballot can display one set of votes to the voter, but different votes after…
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ES&S Uses Undergraduate Project to Lobby New York Legislature on Risky Voting Machines
The New York State Legislature is considering a bill that would ban all-in-one voting machines. That is, voting machines that can both print votes on a ballot and scan and…
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Will Web3 Follow in the Footsteps of the AI Hype Cycle?
For many, the global financial crisis of 2008 marked a turning point for trust in established institutions. It is unsurprising that during this same historical time period, Bitcoin, a decentralized…
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A Multi-pronged Strategy for Securing Internet Routing
By Henry Birge-Lee, Nick Feamster, Mihir Kshirsagar, Prateek Mittal, Jennifer Rexford The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is conducting an inquiry into how it can help protect against security vulnerabilities in…
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How the National AI Research Resource can steward the datasets it hosts
Last week I participated on a panel about the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR), a proposed computing and data resource for academic AI researchers. The NAIRR’s goal is to subsidize…
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CITP Case Study on Regulating Facial Recognition Technology in Canada
Canada, like many jurisdictions in the United States, is grappling with the growing usage of facial recognition technology in the private and public sectors. This technology is being deployed at…