In this week’s episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#100 – woot!): Taavi Kotka spent 4 years as the Chief Information officer for the nation of Estonia – whose government is widely recognized as among the most technologically advanced in the world. He talks about the Estonian model for e-governance and how the U.S. has ruined the term “e-voting” for everyone. Also: what happens when discussions about the security of bits and bytes have consequences measured in flesh and blood? Joshua Corman, the Chief Security Officer at the firm PTC joins us to talk about it, ahead of his featured presentation at next week’s Security of Things Forum in Boston. Estonia’s former CIO: this is why we can’t have nice things DEFCON’s Voting Village has made an annual ritual of exposing the insecurity of electronic voting machines. But in Estonia, citizens have been voting electronically since 2005: easily, efficiently and […]

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