In defiance to proposed legislation that would make striking illegal, CUPE education workers in Ontario will walk out on Friday.
The union argues the legislation is unconstitutional. The government will invoke the 'notwithstanding clause', which allows them to pass legislation which violates certain portions of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedom. This is an unprecedented action in a labour dispute.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-education-minister-news-conference-1.6635275
I did some pretty cool research recently on online voting. We found that you can see who someone voted for just by analyzing the (encrypted!) data being sent between a voter and a voting service.
This type of attack works for at least one large online voting vendor that holds elections for Canadian municipalities, trade unions, and political parties.
Link to paper: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-15911-4_3
Thanks to my co-authors Pananos and Essex, and the vendor for putting out a fix quickly!
Online voting systems typically display a confirmation screen allowing voters to confirm their selections before casting. This paper considers whether a network-based observer can extract information about voter selections from the length of the exchanged network...
#introduction Hi, I'm James, and I'm a Master's student at the University of Western Ontario in #canada.
I research online elections #cybersecurity and hope to have my first academic paper on this subject accepted in the next few weeks.
Sometimes, I participate in progressive election organizing.
What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?
Aye Matey!
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