This timeline offers a glimpse on several controversies related to the Swiss Post evoting system that was put on trial through a Public Intrusion Test in Spring 2019.
Dealing with EFAIL and the controversies around revealed various areas of frictions that highlighted some general disagreements regarding the management of vulnerability disclosure. We unfold the EFAIL disclosure process through four ethnographic descriptions.
Swiss National Science Foundation
09/01/2018 to 02/29/2020
This exploratory project aims to pave the way toward an anthropology of computer (in)security. Computer security is compromised when a vulnerability is exploitable and allows unauthorized access to digital devices or networks. Currently, such computer vulnerabilities represent a considerable threat to the security of contemporary societies and bear tremendous consequences to political processes, the economy and impact social norms and practices. This "digital lives" project aims to account for the socio-cultural dynamics, ethical dimensions and (in)securitziation processes embedded into three interconnected issues: the practices of vulnerability disclosure, operational security and advocacy related to digital rights and governance.
The Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography (PECE: pronounced “peace”) is an open source (Drupal-based) digital platform that supports multi-sited, cross-scale ethnographic and historical research. The platform links researchers in new ways, enables new kinds of analyses and data visualization, and activates researchers’ engagement with public problems and diverse audiences. PECE is at the center of a research project that explores how digital infrastructure can be designed to support collaborative hermeneutics....
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