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Securing Digital Democracy
Coursera
2 recommenders · 3 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2016–2020 · score 1.8
A Coursera course by J. Alex Halderman, a University of Michigan computer science professor, on the security of digital democracy, including how elections and voting systems can be attacked and defended. It covers the technical and policy issues behind electronic voting and related internet security concerns.
Commenters point to it as a strong, specific course on election and voting security, with one calling it an awesome course and another highly recommending it.
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Not only that, remember the Diebold debacle around GWB election? He was one of the people who hacked that machine, and researched other voting machines as well. He's running a course on Coursera called Securing Digital Democracy https://www.coursera.org/learn/digital-democracy I can highly recommend it.
It is recommended often because Learning How To Learn is a very fundamental part of your skill set which, sadly, many people either lack or do sub-optimal. Precisely because of that it can contain "obvious" device; because you are already (partly) familiar with it. I find it rather arrogant to say its useless for everyone. Its a fairly quick course, where you can spend more time on aspects if you desire.
This topic about the top Coursera courses or which ones you recommend comes up regularly here on HN.
On top of the mentioned Learning How To Learn I can recommend the following:
Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory and Practice by Edwin Bakker [1]
Securing Digital Democracy by J. Alex Halderman [2]
Cryptography I by Dan Boneh [3]. I didn't finish this one, but its very good...
[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/terrorism
[2] https://www.coursera.org/learn/digital-democracy
[3] https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto
And the problem always is: how are you going to verify that the terminal you're using is running precisely the version of software you've seen?
There's an awesome online course touching all those topics and then some, from J. Alex Halderman, Associate Professor in University of Michigan. It's called 'Securing Digital Democracy' and is available on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/digital-democracy