Patt Morrison for Tuesday, November 2, 2010

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

CALL-IN @ 866-893-5722, 866-893-KPCC; OR JOIN THE CONVERSATION ONLINE ON THE PATT MORRISON BLOG AT KPCC-DOT-ORG

 

 

1:06 – 1:30

OPEN

 

 

1:30 - 1:58:30

Online voting – election day debacle in the making?

Being online is a constant daily activity for many people as they communicate through email, Facebook, and Twitter and do their shopping and even their banking electronically. But voting online – that may be an entirely different matter. Several states have pilot programs in which military and overseas voters can send their ballots using the Internet, but security experts warn of the risks. In fact, a University of Michigan team hacked the Washington D.C. district system to test for reliability and secrecy (at the invitation of the district, by the way). It was so easy - it took them a mere three hours to find a flaw in the system’s “brittle” security design. They waited another day to allow votes to stream in and then hacked the server – changing ballot results, broadcasting the university’s fight song, and taking over the security cameras of the board’s office, plus finding a folder with the personal information on the more than 900 overseas voters who were to receive their online ballots. Clearly, a system is needed to make voting easier for the military and citizens overseas, but are states that are pushing online voting putting the countries elections at risk?

 

Guests:

THE HACKER

J. Alex Halderman, Assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. He and his team hacked the D.C. elections server for online voting.

Via ISDN

 

CRITIC OF ONLINE VOTING

David Jefferson, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Chairman of the Verified Voting Foundation, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working for reliable and publicly verifiable elections.

CALL HIM:

 

 

2:06 – 2:30

OPEN

 

 

2:30 – 2:58:30

The World in 2050

What will the planet and society be like in 40 years? According to geoscientist and Guggenheim fellow Lawrence C. Smith, analysis should be based on four global forces: demography, natural resources, globalization, and climate change. The population is projected to reach 9 billion by 2050, which will require much more resources than the earth currently provides. The world economy is becoming more and more interdependent and connected, and temperatures will continue to rise. All of this considered, Smith makes many predictions, but one of his key hypotheses is that the world will make a large expansion Northward. Want a glimpse of your future? Listen as Patt sits down with Lawrence Smith to discuss his forecast of the future.

 

Guests:

Laurence C. Smith, professor of geography and earth & space sciences at UCLA; author of “The World in 2050”

IN STUDIO

 

 

 

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Producer, Patt Morrison Program

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