Avi Rubin Quotes

United States, Computer Scientist
November 8, 1967

Aviel David "Avi" Rubin (born November 8, 1967) is an expert in systems and networking security. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins, Director of ACCURATE, and President and co-founder of Independent Security Evaluators. In 2002, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the USENIX Association for a two-year term.

Also known as Professor, Director

If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.

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- Health
- Financial
I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

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- Random

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

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- Bad
People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.

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- People
- Control
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

Avi Rubin
The basic idea behind a paper trail is that you take one of these electronic systems and you augment it with a printer that prints out people's vote as they vote.

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- People
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

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In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly.

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- Important