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What's a sports car without fuel? Pretty useless – just like machine learning models without data, says CISPA researcher Antoni Kowalczuk. That's why AI models scrape the internet for that sweet, sweet training data – pictures in the case of image generation models. And sometimes, they (allegedly) ignore copyright laws in the process. So how can we tell if copyrighted or even sensitive data has made it into these models? Antoni's research tackles exactly that – and why that's not just a copyright issue, but a serious privacy concern.

RAW and UNCENSORED:Mike Rogers joins me ahead of his U.S. Senate announcement.We confront his past on the Intelligence Committee, his support for CISPA, and the growing conservative battle to defend civil liberties.No holds barred.#GrassrootsArmy #PatriotsRisingFit, Healthy & Happy Podcast Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

CISPA, Alte Schmelz und die Sache mit den Startups im Saarland - Hannover Messe: KI als Hauptthema - "Schutz jüdischen Lebens" soll in die saarländische Landesverfassung - Saarbrücker Synchronsprecherin plaudert über ihren Job und die Angst vor KI-Ablöse

Sicherheitslücken in Computerprogrammen sind riskant. Mit Fuzzing sollen sie entdeckt werden, bevor sie Schaden anrichten können. Doch die Methode ist aufwendig — bis jetzt. Prof. Andreas Zeller vom CISPA in Saarbrücken will das ändern. Prof. Andreas Zeller verfolgt am CISPA Helmholtz-Zentrum für Informationssicherheit eine Vision: mit seinem Team Software-Bots entwickeln, die Softwaresysteme automatisch testen, debuggen und überwachen. Das Projekt heißt „S3 – Semantics of Software Systems“. >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/wissen/forschungsquartett-wie-fuzzing-sicherheitsluecken-findet

Sicherheitslücken in Computerprogrammen sind riskant. Mit Fuzzing sollen sie entdeckt werden, bevor sie Schaden anrichten können. Doch die Methode ist aufwendig — bis jetzt. Prof. Andreas Zeller vom CISPA in Saarbrücken will das ändern. Prof. Andreas Zeller verfolgt am CISPA Helmholtz-Zentrum für Informationssicherheit eine Vision: mit seinem Team Software-Bots entwickeln, die Softwaresysteme automatisch testen, debuggen und überwachen. Das Projekt heißt „S3 – Semantics of Software Systems“. >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/wissen/forschungsquartett-wie-fuzzing-sicherheitsluecken-findet

Sicherheitslücken in Computerprogrammen sind riskant. Mit Fuzzing sollen sie entdeckt werden, bevor sie Schaden anrichten können. Doch die Methode ist aufwendig — bis jetzt. Prof. Andreas Zeller vom CISPA in Saarbrücken will das ändern. Prof. Andreas Zeller verfolgt am CISPA Helmholtz-Zentrum für Informationssicherheit eine Vision: mit seinem Team Software-Bots entwickeln, die Softwaresysteme automatisch testen, debuggen und überwachen. Das Projekt heißt „S3 – Semantics of Software Systems“. >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/wissen/forschungsquartett-wie-fuzzing-sicherheitsluecken-findet

Auf der renommierten IT-Konferenz USENIX Security Symposium 2024 hat die CISPA-Forscherin Lea Gröber gleich zwei Paper als Erstautorin vorgestellt: eines zur Online- und Offlinesicherheit von Content Creators in Pakistan und eines zum Thema Self-Hosting. Wir haben dies zum Anlaß genommen, mit Lea über ihre Forschung im Bereich der Usable Security zu sprechen. Zur Sprache kommt auch ihre Faszination für Pakistan und ihre Einblicke in die dortige Cybersicherheitsforschung. Darüber hinaus geht es im Podcast auch um in ihren persönlichen Werdegang in der Cybersicherheitsforschung, die Arbeit als Doktorandin am CISPA und ihre Vision eines offenen, privatsphäreschützenden und sicheren Internets.

Listen to this interview of Soheil Khodayari, researcher at CISPA, and Giancarlo Pellegrino, faculty also at CISPA — the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany. We talk about their coauthored paper The Great Request Robbery: An Empirical Study of Client-side Request Hijacking Vulnerabilities on the Web (SP 2024). Giancarlo Pellegrino : "One the challenges here we certainly discussed a lot was, How do we tell our reader what's new in this work? And so, for example, in section 9, our discussion and conclusion — we begin at the current state, that is, at the things our reader knows right now, before our paper has become part of common knowledge. Well, in our case, that knowledge was client-side CSFR, because it was that only instance of request hijacking really known of, and so we begin there." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Listen to this interview of Soheil Khodayari, researcher at CISPA, and Giancarlo Pellegrino, faculty also at CISPA — the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany. We talk about their coauthored paper The Great Request Robbery: An Empirical Study of Client-side Request Hijacking Vulnerabilities on the Web (SP 2024). Giancarlo Pellegrino : "One the challenges here we certainly discussed a lot was, How do we tell our reader what's new in this work? And so, for example, in section 9, our discussion and conclusion — we begin at the current state, that is, at the things our reader knows right now, before our paper has become part of common knowledge. Well, in our case, that knowledge was client-side CSFR, because it was that only instance of request hijacking really known of, and so we begin there." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unsere Sommer-Konferenzreihe 2024 geht mit einem Knall zu Ende, oder eher gesagt mit ein paar mehr – im Hintergrund unserer Aufnahme. Denn das USENIX Security Symposium 2024 in Philadelphia war ziemlich gut besucht und einen geeigneten Ort für die Aufnahme zu finden, nicht ganz so einfach. Aber hey, das ist live. Adrian und Gabriel haben uns Einblicke in ihre Forschung zu zum Mobilfunkprotokoll Voice over WiFi gegeben, das sogenanntem WLAN-Calling zugrunde liegt. WLAN-Calling ermöglicht in modernen Smartphones, dass Telefonverbindungen nicht nur über das Mobilfunknetz, sondern auch über WLAN aufgebaut werden können. Ziel ist es, so auch an Orten mit schlechter Mobilfunkqualität wie etwa Tunneln, Kellern oder auf Bahnfahrten Erreichbarkeit zu garantieren. Zwei kritische Sicherheitslücken haben solche Calls aber leider in der Vergangenheit zu einer etwas unsicheren Angelegenheit gemacht. Die Sicherheitslücken sind inzwischen aber dank der Forscher geschlossen. Was bei den Calls von Seiten verschiedener Hersteller und Mobilfunkanbieter schief lief, wie die beiden darauf aufmerksam geworden sind und wie es dann weiter ging, erzählen Adrian und Gabriel uns in dieser deutschen Sonderausgabe von CISPA TL;DR.

Time for another round of our TL;DR conference special! At USENIX 2024 in Philadelphia, we met an old CISPA friend: Dr. Sebastian Roth, Postdoc at TU Vienna. Sebastian did his PhD in the research group of CISPA-Faculty Dr. Ben Stock, where he focussed on web security at the intersection of usable security. In the hallway of the conference hotel, we talk about his time at CISPA, the role of everyday developers in web security and about the importance of security standards in the web. Listening is just like meeting an old friend – enjoy this latest episode of TL;DR!

Diesen Sommer haben wir uns aus der vertrauten Umgebung der CISPA-Büros herausgewagt und unsere Forscher zu ihren wichtigsten wissenschaftlichen Veranstaltungen begleitet: Konferenzen! Ende Juli fuhren wir nach Wien, um an der International Conference on Machine Learning teilzunehmen. Und da der Flur und die Gespräche dort ohnehin das Wichtigste an einer Konferenz sind, haben wir uns dort in einer Kaffeepause mit unseren Forscher:innen zusammengesetzt, um über ihre Forschung und das Neueste im Bereich des maschinellen Lernens zu sprechen. Unsere Gästin: Rebekka Burkholz, die 2021 zum CISPA kam und seitdem mit einem ERC-Starting Grant ausgezeichnet wurde, um mit ihrer Forschung neuronale Netzwerke effizienter zu machen. Im Podcast sprechen wir darüber, wie sie ihren wissenschaftlichen Hintergrund aus der Physik im Bereich KI anwendet und wie KI in Zukunft die Gesellschaft beeinflussen kann.

This summer, we ventured out of the safe and sound surroundings of the CISPA offices and accompanied our researchers to their most important science events: conferences! At the end of July, we went to Vienna to attend the International Conference on Machine Learning. And with the hallway and the conversations there being the most important part of a conference anyway, we sat down there with our researchers during a coffee break to talk about their research and the latest in machine learning. In this episode, we talk to Krikamol Muandet, who joined CISPA in 2022 and leads the Rational Intelligence Lab. His focus is on making AI truly intelligent – not just behaving like it is.

„Nach der Deadline ist vor der Deadline“, dieser Spruch ist im CISPA häufig zu hören. Kein Wunder: Das wissenschaftliche Jahr ist neben viel Forschungsarbeit vor allem von Paper-Fristen und wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen geprägt. Doch warum sind Konferenzen eigentlich so wichtig? Um was geht es dort, wie laufen sie ab und was bringen sie? Auf diese und noch viel mehr Fragen haben die CISPA-Faculty Dr. Katharina Krombholz und Dr. Ben Stock Antworten. Nicht nur, weil sie wie sie selbst im Podcast mehrfach durchblicken lassen, schon „alte Hasen“ sind und an vielen Konferenzen teilgenommen haben, sondern auch, weil sie beide in diesem Jahr als Program Chairs zwei wichtige Konferenzen in ihren Fachgebieten maßgeblich mitgestaltet und mitorganisiert haben. Was dabei die schwierigsten Aufgaben sind, wie der Forschungsnachwuchs von Konferenzen profitiert und in ihre Abläufe eingebunden wird und vieles mehr, könnt ihr in dieser deutschsprachigen Folge von CISPA TL:DR hören. Viel Spaß beim Hören!

CISPA-Faculty Dr. Franziska Boenisch spricht in dieser Folge mit uns darüber, warum Privatsphäreschutz bei Large-Language-Modellen wichtig ist und welche technische Infrastruktur die Forschung in diesem Bereich benötigt. Darüber hinaus erzählt sie, wie der Wissenstransfer in die Politik gelingen kann, wo ihrer Ansicht nach die Herausforderungen in der deutschen Forschungsförderung liegen und was sie macht, um weibliche Talente schon im Studium zu fördern. Die im Podcast erwähnten Aufzeichnung der Vorlesungen von Franziska Boenisch sind über diesen Link abrufbar: https://twitter.com/CISPA/status/1790736507742962071

As End-to-end encryption is becoming ever more widespread in most popular messaging services, discussions have emerged to enable the scanning of messages and files directly on end-user-devices. Carolyn Guthoff and Divyanshu Bhardwaj, usable security researchers at CISPA, have looked into these systems in their latest study on Client-Side-Scanning. They discuss potential implications such a system would bring and how Client-Side Scanning is perceived by experts, from cybersecurity researchers to law enforcement agencies. Content Warning: This episode contains mention of how Client-Side Scanning could help combat Child Sexual Abuse Material.

This episode will change your life! As if Clickbait headlines weren't bad enough: now there's something even worse lurking on the internet: Clickbait PDFs. Giada Stivala, PhD candidate and CISPA researcher, has discovered this new type of phishing attack, in which scammers are desperately trying to steal your click (and ultimately your data and/or money). Giada tells us how she scoured hacker forums to get to the bottom of these attacks, what the road from discovery to a finished research paper looks like and what to watch out for to protect yourself against these new phishing scams.

Software zu testen ist sehr aufwendig und entsprechend teuer, darum wird es oft nicht hinreichend getan oder gleich ganz unterlassen. Andreas Zeller forscht am CISPA daran, das Testen zu automatisieren.

Ground Control to CISPA TL;DR.... For this episode we venture into the great unknown that is space! Though it's not all that unknown anymore, as CISPA Faculty Dr. Ali Abbasi tells us, with a 'New Space Era' just around the corner. 40.000 satellites will orbit our home planet by 2030, with most of them not paying too much attention to cybersecurity. Sounds like a job for CISPA! Listen as Ali tells us what risks we face and what the future will hold in store for his research.

The prestigious USENIX Security 2023 conference in Anaheim, California is only days away! CISPA Faculty Dr. Ben Stock has co-authored a paper on E-Mail Security that will be presented there, along with 29 other papers with CISPA involvement. In this episode of TL;DR, he tells us all about how secure E-Mails really are, why you should always double check who the sender of a suspicious E-Mail really is and what the future might hold in store for the E-Mail standard.

Listen to this interview of Thorsten Holz, Professor for computer science and faculty at CISPA, the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, in Saarbrücken, Germany. We talk about mentoring, collaboration, writing, and a little more about writing again. Thorsten Holz : "I'm rather open in just sharing ideas with other researchers, even with researchers whom I haven't yet collaborated with. I haven't really had any bad experiences this way so far. Of course, from time to time, we've gotten scooped by other works. But in these cases, on the one hand, I don't think those other groups stole our ideas or intentionally tried to beat us to it. And on the other hand, being scooped also can be interpreted as an encouraging sign. Sure, it's depressing for a PhD student to see other authors get priority for that work. But really, since other groups have had similar ideas and have wanted to achieve similar goals, this means that we are doing interesting research which should have uptake in the community." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Listen to this interview of Thorsten Holz, Professor for computer science and faculty at CISPA, the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, in Saarbrücken, Germany. We talk about mentoring, collaboration, writing, and a little more about writing again. Thorsten Holz : "I'm rather open in just sharing ideas with other researchers, even with researchers whom I haven't yet collaborated with. I haven't really had any bad experiences this way so far. Of course, from time to time, we've gotten scooped by other works. But in these cases, on the one hand, I don't think those other groups stole our ideas or intentionally tried to beat us to it. And on the other hand, being scooped also can be interpreted as an encouraging sign. Sure, it's depressing for a PhD student to see other authors get priority for that work. But really, since other groups have had similar ideas and have wanted to achieve similar goals, this means that we are doing interesting research which should have uptake in the community." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to this interview of Sascha Fahl, Professor for Computer Science and Faculty for Usable Security and Privacy at CISPA, the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, in Saarbrücken, Germany. We talk about replicable methods, we talk about critical reading, and we talk about the necessity of a network to your research. Sascha Fahl : "I myself practise — and I encourage my PhDs to practice it too — the zero-draft writing approach. This is the approach of writing early, writing often. Because it's just absolutely important to accept that what you initially write is not what's going to be submitted and definitely not what will be in the camera-ready version of the paper. So I encourage the researchers in my group to put text into a manuscript very early on and to write sections which can be written before the results are in. And then it's just about revising the text multiple times, as it grows and as the project advances. Because we want to make sure that the argumentation is good, that the research questions are good, that the results actually address the research questions, that the discussion really fits well together with the results, and all that stuff. So the approach I promote is write early, write often, and also revise a lot." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Listen to this interview of Sascha Fahl, Professor for Computer Science and Faculty for Usable Security and Privacy at CISPA, the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, in Saarbrücken, Germany. We talk about replicable methods, we talk about critical reading, and we talk about the necessity of a network to your research. Sascha Fahl : "I myself practise — and I encourage my PhDs to practice it too — the zero-draft writing approach. This is the approach of writing early, writing often. Because it's just absolutely important to accept that what you initially write is not what's going to be submitted and definitely not what will be in the camera-ready version of the paper. So I encourage the researchers in my group to put text into a manuscript very early on and to write sections which can be written before the results are in. And then it's just about revising the text multiple times, as it grows and as the project advances. Because we want to make sure that the argumentation is good, that the research questions are good, that the results actually address the research questions, that the discussion really fits well together with the results, and all that stuff. So the approach I promote is write early, write often, and also revise a lot." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we talk to one of our latest Faculty hires, Dr. Wouter Lueks, about his work that is aiming to make technological solutions to societal problems more privacy-friendly. He tells us about his work on a project that will enable investigative journalists to share sensitive documents anonymously. He also explains why tackling actual current real-world problems goes really well together with CISPA's approach of foundational cybersecurity research.

Prof. Dr. Sascha Fahl hat uns bei unserem Besuch in Hannover verraten, wie CISPA nach Hannover kommt und was er damit zu tun hat. Außerdem erzählt der Forscher im Bereich der Usable Security uns, warum sichere Authentifizierungslösungen noch immer eine Herausforderung sind und welche Forschungsfragen ihn und sein Team noch umtreiben. Viel Spaß beim Hören!

Volles Wartezimmer beim Kinderarzt-auch wegen vieler Grippefälle- Gesprächsstoff: Dezemberabschlag wird übernommen- 200 Euro für Studenten, reicht das?- Airbus und CISPA werben um Mitarbeiter an Uni- 1000 Bäume für Niederwürzbach

TL;DR's first episode with not one, but two guests! Andreas Kogler from TU Graz stayed at CISPA for three weeks with Faculty Dr. Michael Schwarz's research group. Of course we took the chance to talk to our guest and his host about their past and current projects. With their research on side-channel attacks, they cost CPU vendors quite a few weekends and vacations. Michael and Andreas tell us how they found CPU vulnerabilities that left even them in disbelief and why security often comes at the price of speed.

- CISPA und Airbus kooperieren - Habeck ruft Alarmstufe beim Gas aus - Gestrandet auf Teneriffa - Verlust von Ford, wie weiter mit dem Autobau im Saarland? - Nach Betriebsversammlung bei Ford: Wie die Belegschaft Druck aufs Management aufbauen will

- Saarlouis: Betroffenheit und Wut über Ford- Entscheidung gegen den saarländischen Standort - Berlin: Bundeswirtschaftsminister fordert Konzept von Ford für Saarlouis- Saarbrücken: Cispa und Airbus versprechen neue Arbeitsplätze

In this month's episode of TL;DR, we talk to CISPA faculty Dr. Giancarlo Pellegrino about his early days at CISPA, about the evolution of web applications, about breaking news of horror vulnerabilities with flashy names and about what the future will hold for his security research.

In episode 6 of our podcast, we talk to CISPA researcher Sahar Abdelnabi about fake images, texts, and videos that are increasingly getting harder to recognize as fake. The PhD student explains how these so-called deepfakes are created and how her research ensures that the real deal remains distinguishable from fakes.

In der fünften Episode unseres Podcasts sprechen wir mit CISPA-Faculty Dr. Sven Bugiel über sichere Logins und Passwörter. Der leitende Wissenschaftler erklärt, warum Passwortmanager sinnvoll sind, wie man sie richtig nutzt und welche Möglichkeiten der 2-Faktor-Authentifizierung es gibt. Quelle: https://cispa.de/password-security / Bitte abonniert den Original-Podcast: https://cispatldr.podigee.io/feed/mp3

In the second episode of the CISPA podcast TL;DR, we talked to faculty Dr. Cristian-Alexandru Staicu about how modern software development works and what security risks are involved in the process. Have fun listening!

Am Helmholtz-Zentrum für Informationssicherheit (CISPA) in Saarbrücken entsteht ein spannender Forschungsstandort für IT-Security.

  The National Endowment for Democracy is a private foundation - that receives millions of our tax dollars - that pays groups to work to change the governments of other countries. In this episode, hear highlights from a hearing during which the president of this creepy organization and the presidents of two organizations that it funds - which are controlled entirely by members of the Republican and Democratic parties - will give you some insight into what kind of work they are doing manipulating information and interfering in elections in other countries around the world. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Click here to contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536 Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD175: State of War CD172: The Illegal Bombing of Syria CD167: Combating Russia NDAA 2018 LIVE CD117: Authorization for Limitless War CD113: CISA is Law CD102: The World Trade Organization: COOL? Main Hearing Hearing: Democracy Promotion in a Challenging World, Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, June 14, 2018. Full Hearing Transcript Watch on YouTube Witnesses: Carl Gershman: National Endowment for Democracy: President Daniel Twining: International Republican Institute: President Kenneth Wollack: National Democratic Institute: President Timestamps & Transcripts 15:35 Representative Edward Royce (CA): At home, we must maintain the decades-old bipartisan consensus that democracy is a core element of U.S. foreign policy. That is why it’s important to have the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, and the National Democratic Institute here today, and that’s why it’s important that Congress continues to adequately fund these institutions.   24:30 Representative Edward Royce (CA): I’m pleased to welcome our distinguished guests here on the panel, including Mr. Carl Gershman, who has served as president of the National Endowment for Democracy since its founding in 1984. He’s a long-time friend of this committee. He’s respected worldwide for his work, especially in his efforts to help peaceably end the Cold War and transition countries from behind the Iron Curtain to democracy, and he’s done this through nongovernmental action. Before his time at NED, he was the senior counselor to the United States representative to the United Nations, where he worked on international human rights issues.   25:21 Representative Edward Royce (CA): Mr. Daniel Twining is the president of the International Republican Institute, and previously he served as the counselor and director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He also worked here in Congress. He worked here as a foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain.   25:45 Representative Edward Royce (CA): And we have Mr. Kenneth Wollack. He is president of the National Democratic Institute, and he has co-edited the Middle East Policy Survey and written regularly on foreign affairs for the Los Angeles Times.   27:26 Carl Gershman: I’d call your attention, for example, to some recent events, among them the remarkable democratic transition in Gambia; the fall of the corrupt Zuma government in South Africa; the stunning victory of democracy in Malaysia, and the freeing of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim; the equally stunning triumph of democracy in Armenia; and the successful local elections in Tunisia that are, in my view, a decisive step forward in the Arab world’s first democracy. These are just a few of the examples that I could give of recent democratic advances. There is Slovakia, interesting developments in Ethiopia. Even in a country like Uzbekistan, we can see some glimmerings of some opening.   31:07 Carl Gershman: Other examples include the support that NED has given in Ukraine to the Anti-Corruption Action Center that has tirelessly led the campaign for the establishment of an independent anti-corruption court. And I’m pleased to report that just last week the Ukrainian parliament at long last approved legislation to create such a court.   37:25 Daniel Twining: In Europe, the Kremlin is deploying a sophisticated information-warfare campaign to undermine democratic institutions, erode citizen trust in democracy, and wedge apart the transatlantic alliance. This form of warfare is particularly insidious—this political warfare—because it uses core features of democracy against us—exploiting our free media, manipulating false information, undermining confidence in electoral systems. IRI’s Beacon Project is engaged in a big line of work to leverage our relationships for European political parties and civil-societies groups to track Russian misinformation, including in many local languages, and then to coordinate political responses to that.   31:46 Carl Gershman: The last example is the nonpartisan training conducted by four NGOs in Tunisia of new candidates who participated in last month’s local elections. Of the 235 individuals who were trained, 112 won seats, and 25 were at the heads of their electoral lists.   41:46 Kenneth Wollack: Authoritarian regimes are using digital tools to advance their interests, including electoral espionage and the dissemination of disinformation, to skew electoral outcomes, disrupt democratic discourse, discredit democratic institutions, and fuel ethnic and social divisions. NDI has responded by providing cybersecurity support; assisting efforts of civic, media, and political groups to detect, expose, and combat this information; and conducting new types of public-opinion research to identify populations that are most susceptible to Russian disinformation and develop messages that can build resilience. In cooperation with IRI and NED, NDI is helping to launch a new effort with democracy groups, civil-society organizations, civic-tech partners, political parties, and a global network of four million citizen election monitors to interact more regularly with the technology companies.   44:23 Kenneth Wollack: Ukrainians can point to concrete achievements in recent years. These include the emergence of new political parties that have national reach and are focused on citizens they represent rather than on oligarchs who would finance them. Brought together by NDI in partnership with the European Parliament, party factions in the Rada are overcoming deep fragmentation to agree on procedures that will make it easier to build consensus around reforms. In NDI programs alone, more than 45,000 citizens have engaged directly in the national reform process and reaching more than 1.3 million citizens through the media.   45:05 Kenneth Wollack: Another story of democratic resilience is unfolding in Syria. In northern Syria, citizen groups are prioritizing community needs, and local administrative councils are responding by providing critical services. Fifty NDI governance advisors are working each day in 34 locations to advise citizen groups and administrative councils, and bringing them together to solve problems.   49:19 Carl Gershman: But you’ve got to build a defense against it, and a lot of the groups that we helped stop fake news Ukraine and other groups like that are being able to identify fake information. We have a dialogue—a very ongoing dialogue—with the Internet companies to take down a lot of incitement, a lot of fake news. We’re connecting our grantees with the Internet companies. We have groups like Bellingcat, which is an investigative journalist group. They use open-source information. But they’ve identified the Russian general who provided the missile that shot down the Malaysian airliner.   51:30 Kenneth Wollack: But this a daily fight on the ground. Representative Edward Royce (CA): A social media fight? Wollack: Yes. To give you one example, the Democratic Party of Serbia, two weeks before the local elections, the Russians—presumably the Russians—had hacked their Facebook page, put horrible content on it. The hackers then contacted Facebook, told them to look at the site. Facebook immediately took down the Facebook page. Now, the party didn’t know who to contact. They had no contact with Facebook. They were able to contact us. Our office in Silicon Valley managed to reach the Facebook executives. They immediately took it down.   54:04 Representative Eliot Engel (NY): The budget proposal for fiscal year 2019 requested a $67 million for NED, which is a 60 percent cut from the amount which is $170 million that Congress has appropriated yearly since FY ’16.   54:59 Carl Gershman: I mean, there are, obviously, two fundamental problems with the OMB budget request for fiscal 2019: the amount and separating us from the four institutes. And both of these are devastating. I don’t even want to get into now what we would have to cut. They’re devastating—utterly devastating. It would virtually kill the whole program.   58:22 Daniel Twining: But in Malaysia, IRI’s been working with the opposition there since 2002. Malaysia was essentially a one-party majoritarian state. The ruling party had ruled since 1957. It had gerrymandered all the districts, given itself every advantage. But in this last election a month ago, the opposition won for the first time in 60-something years, and that was an example of playing the long game, right? We, the United States, supported a democratic opposition that is now in charge of this very strategic country right there on the front lines of the South China Sea, right there on the front lines of the Islamic world’s intersection with the rest of Asia, and that’s good for America.   1:09:12 Representative Gregory Meeks (NY): And Mr. Gershman, I’m a former board member at NED, so I’ve seen firsthand the work that you and your dedication and the bipartisan board of NED collectively working together to try to make sure that we have a better world for all of us.   1:12:20 Kenneth Wollack: Our engagement is not to spread falsehoods. It’s not to create fake news. It’s not to try to disrupt the process. It’s not to try to spur conflict in countries. What we’re trying to do is promote the principles, values, processes, and institutions that are enshrined in an intergovernmental organization. And our work is to try to help people engage in the political process.   1:16:34 Representative Dana Rohrabacher (CA):... did we or did we not involve ourselves heavily to undermine the democratically elected government of Yanukovych in Ukraine? And what did it bring us? It brought us turmoil and conflict—that if we’d have waited and let that government be elected, because of its flaws unelected, we would not be in this situation today where the world is more likely to go into conflict because of that. I don’t believe the Russians would’ve invaded Ukraine had we not arrogantly involved ourselves to overthrow that democratically elected government in Ukraine.   1:18:39 Representative Dana Rohrabacher (CA): So, I’ve had my say. I know I’m making everybody mad at me, but I had to say it.   1:25:59 Representative Brad Sherman (CA): And I want to turn our attention to Yerevan and Armenia. NED has allocated $1.3 million last year. Now we’ve seen a real move toward democracy. Are you going to do more, given the fluid situation there? Carl Gershman: Thank you very much for that question, Mr. Sherman. Yes. The answer is yes. Our board, which meets later this week, is making Armenia what we call a country eligible for contingency funds, which are funds set aside for new situations and, obviously, what’s happened in Armenia is very, very new. And we—I think there are several priorities that have to be addressed. There are going to be quick elections that have been called in Armenia, and those elections have to have integrity to them to give legitimacy to the current Pashinyan government. There is a parliament that oversees this, and government officials are really new to the governing game. The system has been controlled by a centralized authority for a number of years and so a lot of training is going to have to be necessary for some of the new government officials. And then, finally, there’s going to be a big information war, the kind of issue raised by Congressman Royce, and it is very essential in this period—and this is what the groups that we help are doing—is to get people reliable and independent information so they don’t make the judgments based upon the disinformation that is going to be promoted by the forces that have just been removed from power.   1:49:40 Representative Karen Bass (CA): Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I want to welcome my colleagues from NED and IRI and NDI. And I’m a member of the NED board, for my colleagues that are here on the committee, and I have to say the work that NED does around the world is really tremendous.   2:07:52 Representative Ted Poe (TX): Globally, what do you personally see is the number-one entity that is a threat to democracy worldwide? Is it China? Is it Russia? Is it North Korea? Is it ISIS? Is it Iran? Pick one. Pick the one you think is the threat. Carl Gershman: China. Rep. Poe: China. Gershman: China. Rep. Poe: Mr. Twining. Daniel Twining: China. Rep. Poe: Mr. Wollack. Kenneth Wollack: Russia. Rep. Poe: Russia. Russia and China.   2:35:00 Carl Gershman And I think it should not be forgotten: NED was created as an independent institution so that even when you have problems, whatever the problems are with the executive branch, our work continues consistently. And I think that was a brilliant idea, and it’s in the National Endowment for Democracy Act adopted by the Congress by Dante Fascell in 1983, and I think it was brilliant to give the NED that kind of independence so that we can go forward, regardless of what the policies of the executive branch are at any particular time.   2:47:46 Carl Gershman: I take pride in the fact that when we make grants to groups abroad, I take pride that it’s with American taxpayer money. We try to protect that money. We try to make sure that every single dollar is spent well. But I take pride in the fact that that’s a demonstration of the support coming from the American people. Sound Clip Sources News Interview: The Rules-Based International Order Created by the U.S. is Being Torn Apart by the U.S., CNN, June 10, 2018. 2:30 Sen. Diane Feinstein I mean we have helped support this whole Democratic Atlantic community and more or less forged it into a single entity. And I’ve been very proud of that as an American. Speech: Madeleine K. Albright Gives Keynote Remarks at 2018 Albright Luncheon, National Democratic Institute, YouTube, May 10, 2018. 10:50 Madeline Albright We are employing every tool at our disposal from the use of focus groups to the collection of more accurate data, to connections made through social media, to the design of election observer missions, to the drafting of model laws, to partnerships with regional bodies and the United Nations, to the mobilization of public opinion from around the equator and from pole to pole. Discussion: Foreign Affairs Issue Launch with Former Vice President Joe Biden, Council on Foreign Affairs, January 23, 2018. Speakers: Joe Biden Richard Haass - President of the Council on Foreign Relations Joe Biden: I’ll give you one concrete example. I was—not I, but it just happened to be that was the assignment I got. I got all the good ones. And so I got Ukraine. And I remember going over, convincing our team, our leaders to—convincing that we should be providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor. And they didn’t. So they said they had—they were walking out to a press conference. I said, nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The president said—I said, call him. (Laughter.) I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time. Hearing: Facebook, Google and Twitter Executives on Russian Election Interference, House Select Intelligence Committee, C-SPAN, November 1, 2017. Witnesses: Kent Walker Google Senior Vice President & General Counsel Colin Stretch Facebook Vice President & General Counsel Sean Edgett Twitter Acting General Counsel 59:39 Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL): I submit to you that your efforts have to be more than just about finding malicious and deceptive activity, that you have a responsibility—all of you have a responsibility—to make sure that we are not adding to the problem by not being as rigorous and as aggressive as we can in terms of vetting the content and in terms of making sure that we are being really dynamic in doing that.   1:57:39 Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA): RT, Russia Today, on your platform, has 2.2 million subscribers. Fox News, on your platform, has 740,000 subscribers. CNN has 2.3 million subscribers. The Intelligence Community assessment that was made public in January spoke about RT, and it said, “RT conducts strategic messaging for Russian government. It seeks to influence politics and fuel discontent in the United States.” So my question to you is, why have you not shut down RT on YouTube? Hearing: Facebook, Google and Twitter Executives on Russian Disinformation , Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, October 31, 2017. Witnesses Colin Stretch - Facebook Vice President and General Counsel  Sean Edgett - Twitter Acting General Counsel  Richard Salgado - Google Law Enforcement & Information Security Director 38:25 Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI): And I gather that all of your companies have moved beyond any notion that your job is only to provide a platform and whatever goes across it is not your affair. Colin Stretch: Senator, our commitment to addressing this problem is unwavering. We take this very seriously and are committed to investing as necessary to prevent this from happening again. Absolutely. Whitehouse: Mr. Edgett? Sean Edgett: Absolutely agree with Mr. Stretch, and this type of activity just creates not only a bad user experience but distrust for the platform, so we are committed to working every single day to get better at solving this problem. Whitehouse: Mr. Salgado? Richard Salgado: That’s the same for Google. We take this very seriously. We’ve made changes, and we will continue to get better. Whitehouse: And ultimately, you are American companies, and threats to American election security and threats to American peace and order are things that concern you greatly, correct? Stretch: That is certainly correct. Edgett: Agree. Salgado: That’s right.   Hearing: Subcommittee Hearing - The Collapse of the Rule of Law in Venezuela, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, July 19, 2017. Witness Luis Almagro Secretary General of the Organization of American States 07:15 Senator Marco Rubio: I also know this, and I do not speak for the president, but I’ve certainly spoken to the president, and I will only reiterate what he has already said, and I’ve been saying this now for a number of days: it is my—I have 100% confidence that if democracy is destroyed once and for all in Venezuela on the 30th in terms of the Maduro regime, the president of the U.S. is prepared to act unilaterally in a significant and swift way. And that is not a threat; that is the reporting of the truth. Confirmation Hearing: Defense Secretary Nominee General James Mattis Says Russia is Trying to Break NATO, US Senate, C-SPAN, January 12, 2017. John McCain: For seven decades, the United States has played a unique role in the world. We’ve not only put America first, but we’ve done so by maintaining and advancing a world order that has expanded security, prosperity, and freedom. This has required our alliances, our trade, our diplomacy, our values, but most of all, our military for when would-be aggressors aspire to threaten world order. Hearing: U.S. Strategy Against ISIS, Senate Armed Services Committee, C-SPAN, December 9, 2015. 2:28:14 Sen. Lindsey Graham Here’s what I’ve done. I make an offer to our president that I believe this war is going to go on for a long time after his presidency; I believe that they’re going to go wherever they can on the planet and that we should stop them wherever necessary; and when it comes to means, we should not limit this commander in chief or any other commander in chief when it comes to means. Speech: Gov. Howard Dean - DemTools 2.0 Launch, NDI's DemTools Launch Event, December 9, 2015. 9:55 Howard Dean I’m incredibly proud to be a member of the board of NDI, which is an incredibly sophisticated organization that does not shrink from bringing democracy to any corner of the Earth, including some we’re not allowed in. We get there anyway. Speech: Sen. Tom Cotton Says US Should Shoot Down Russian Planes Over Syria, YouTube, October 1, 2015. Conference: Is the United States at a Crossroads? Domestic and Global Dimensions, Wilson Center, May 15, 2015. 15:35 Jane Harmon Ukraine. You and I were there together. Madeline lead the delegation - of course she did - for the National Democratic Institute, which she chairs and the International Republican Institute was also there during the first Ukraine election in May of last year. And among other things we met with the presidential candidates including Poroshenko and Tymoshenko and we tooled around in Kiev and I also went to Odessa to see how the voting was going. Speech: Senator Dan Sullivan's Maiden Floor Speech, US Senate, C-SPAN, January 27, 2015. 9:05 Sen. Dan Sullivan If the executive branch continues to dither on America’s economic future, Congress can and should act to expe- dite such projects. That is what we are doing with Keystone, and that is what I will be pressing the Congress to do for Alaska’s and America’s next great en- ergy infrastructure project—the Alas- ka LNG project—which will create thousands of jobs and provide clean and affordable energy to Americans and our allies for decades. Speech: Vice President Joe Biden Opens 2014 NDI Democracy Award Dinner, National Democratic Institute, December 11, 2014. 32:40 Vice President Joe Biden That’s why in Ukraine, working alongside groups like NDI, with your leadership, we’re providing to the Ukrainians, as we had to the Iraqi’s, personnel from each of our departments teaching them how to literally, as I said, write a budget, expertise from our Justice Department, teaching them the tools that are available to ensure that the court systems are free and transparent. We’re helping Ukrainian officials develop laws and regulations that will establish anti-corruption institutions within the government, enable authorities to combat corruption more effectively. Our militaries are working together to improve Ukrainian capacity to provide it’s own defense and a military system that meets the standards of democracies, while providing security assistance to counter Russian aggression. Speech: Thomas A. Daschle's Speech to NDI's 30th Anniversary Dinner, National Democratic Institute, December 16, 2013. 1:30 Tom Daschle Like many of you, - by the mission of NDI. The realization that we have had one focus now for 3 decades. And that focus is very simply to empower people to be able to govern themselves more effectively. That’s what we try to do. Speech: Mitt Romney Foreign Policy Speech, Virginia Military Institute, C-SPAN, October 8, 2012. 17:25 Mitt Romney Fortunately, we had leaders of courage and vision, both Republicans and Democrats, who knew that America had to support friends who shared our values, and prevent today’s crises from becoming tomorrow’s conflicts. Statesmen like Marshall rallied our nation to rise to its responsibilities as the leader of the free world. We helped our friends to build and sustain free societies and free markets. We defended our friends, and ourselves, from our common enemies. We led. We led. News Interview: CIA Admits Orchestrating Syrian Coup of March 1949, BBC Interview, 1967. Additional Reading Article: Who will fix Facebook? by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, November 26, 2018. Article: US, Ukraine in 'close discussion' for new lethal arms by Joe Gould, Defense News, November 18, 2018. Article: Facebook purge: Here is the list of pages deleted by Facebook by Patrick Brown, The Western Journal, October 13, 2018. Biography: George Catlett Marshall, United States General, by Forrest C. Pogue, Encyclopedia Britannica, last updated October 12, 2018. Article: Anti-Media shut down by Facebook and Twitter by Caitlin Johnstone, The Anti-Media, October 11, 2018. Article: Facebook purged over 800 U.S. accounts and pages for pushing politcal spam by Elizabeth Dwoskin and Tony Romm, The Washington Post, October 11, 2018. Article: Facebook tempts political backlash with massive purge of 810 pages and accounts by Rhett Jones, Gizmodo, October 11, 2018. Article: The survivors of the Rohingya Genocide by Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, August 9, 2018. Article: John McCain passes the torch at the International Republican Institute by Josh Rogin, The Washington Post, August 3, 2018. Article: Exclusive: IMF backs Ukraine anti-corruption court plan by Marc Jones, Reuters, July 25, 2018. Article: Ukraine anti-corruption court law needs amending - IMF chief by Reuters, June 19, 2018. Article: Independent candidates get most votes in Tunisia's municipal election by Tarek Amara, Reuters, May 8, 2018. Article: Trump is gutting the National Endowment for Democracy, and that's a good thing by Stephen Kinzer, The Boston Globe, March 14, 2018. Article: The Trump administration wants to dismantle Ronald Reagan's 'infrastructure of democracy' by Josh Rogin, The Washington Post, March 4, 2018. Article: House Foreign Affairs Chairman Royce announces retirement by Bridget Bowman, Roll Call, January 8, 2018. Article: What the United States did in Indonesia by Vincent Bevins, The Atlantic, October 20, 2017. Article: Is John McCain's pick to lead the International Republican Institute a strike against Donald Trump? by Timothy J. Burger, Town & Country Magazine, August 10, 2017. Article: Confront authoritarianism by defending democratic values by Carl Gersham , Journal Sentinel Online, October 22, 2016. Article: Russia adds International Republican Institute to growing list of "undesirable organizations", International Republican Institute, August 18, 2016. Article: Bernie Sanders is exactly right: The media is an arm of the ruling class of this country by Brian Hanley, Huffpost, March 28, 2016. Article: Pro-democracy nonprofit is banned in Russia by Ivan Nechepurenko, The New York Times, March 11, 2016. Article: Evil internet bill CISPA is back from the dead, cleverly titled CISA by Kelly Weill, Daily Beast, October 28, 2015. Article: National Endowment for Democracy is first 'undesirable' NGO banned in Russia by Alec Luhn, The Guardian, July 28, 2015. Article: Former Soviet states stand up to Russia. Will the U.S.? by Carl Gershman, The Washington Post, September 26, 2013. Article: Russia wields hard power over Armenia by Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post, September 20, 2013. Article: Covert plan for Panama may be wrong message to send the opposition, The Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1988. Article: U.S. assembled a force in 1964 for possible use in Brazil coup by David Binder, The New York Times Archives, December 30, 1976. Article: Oil discovery in Brazil expected to aid economy, The New York Times Archives, December 9, 1964. Resources About Page: International Monetary Fund, Destruction and Reconstruction (1945-1958), Cooperation and Recovery: The Marshall Plan About Page: German Marshall Fund About Page: National Democratic Institute - Who We Are Archived Form: National Endowment for Democracy For 990 (2002-2015) Board of Directors: International Republican Institute Board of Directors: National Democratic Institute Board of Directors: National Endowment for Democracy Donation Page: National Endowment for Democracy FAQs: International Republican Institute - Who We Are Joint Statement: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2019, p. 406 Project Info: The Beacon Project, International Republican Institute Web Page: Democracy Assistance is Not Election Meddling: Distinguishing Support from Sabotage Letter: United States Senators to Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, December 20, 2017 OpenSecrets: Sen. Dan Sullivan - Alaska Website: Albright Stonebridge Group Website: Bellingcat YouTube Channel: National Democratic Institute Visual Resources Tweet: @ElliotHiggins February 6, 2017 Community Suggestions See more Community Suggestions HERE. Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)

Join the interview in progress featuring Ben Stock, post-doc researcher at CISPA, Saarland University as he discusses the highlights of his research regarding vulnerability notification. Ben and his colleague Christian Rossow, Professor of IT Security at CISPA, Saarland University will be presenting, “Hey, You Have a Problem: On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Web Vulnerability Notification,” on Tuesday, June 13th at 11:45-12:15.

Josh Levy from Free Press talks about CISPA and Stop Cyber Spying Week. Rebecca Wilkins from Citizens for Tax Justice joins Bennet to discuss Corporate Tax Dodgers including none other than Apple Computers. Plus, Today in history which includes the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the worlds longest baseball game played in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

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This week, the potential dangers of crowdsourcing a manhunt, a hacked tweet that cost economic markets billions of dollars, Twitter Music, Windows brings back the start button, Netflix's winning strategy, and a couple of bills in the US Congress you won't want to ignore. Podcast [display_podcast] What We're Playing With Andy: Zombieland: The Series (Amazon Studios debuts 14 pilots for free viewing) Tosin: Google Glass (Google threatens to deactivate Google Glass if you loan it to a friend), Chromebook Pixel Headlines Reddit owns up to its part in spreading misinformation about the Boston bombings False Rumor of Explosion at White House Causes Stocks to Briefly Plunge; AP Confirms Its Twitter Feed Was Hacked Twitter #Music wants to be your source for new tunes Windows 8.1 set to bring back the Start button Audible Book of the Week Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large by Willam Shatner & Chris Regan Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown Music Break: Real by William Shatner More Headlines Netflix Says Its “House of Cards” Strategy Worked, and Wall Street Agrees Netflix will offer $11.99 family plan with up to four simultaneous streams What is CISPA, and Why Should You Care? Everything you need to know about the Senate's online sales-tax bill Viral Video of the Week Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up in the atmosphere during reentry, SpaceX's rockets are being designed to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing. Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

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Shawn and Martin are back with another episode of the Con Artist Podcast! Tonight's broadcast, believe it or not, is the show's one-year anniversary! Tune in at 9PM east for some geek talk, their picks of the week, and more! Tonight, the guys will be talking about the cancelled Boston Comic Con, Doctor Who, and the controversy surrounding the Eisner Awards. #DeathToFanboys

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This week on the podcast we're talking about the return of CISPA, re-installing Windows 8, and working an on-call job without losing your mind. We're also answering your questions about why we give Google so much information, how to use unlimited data effectively, and syncing your files over your local network without the aid of a cloud storage service. Looking for the show notes? You can find this episode at http://lifehacker.com/5983721 (after 5:00 PM PT) and all episodes at http://lifehacker.com/theshow (anytime). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Nicole speaks with The Nation's Antonia Jujasz about her stunning report on the health concerns from the BP spill, two years later. Also, Aaron Krager on yesterday's protest at the GE shareholders meeting, and Tim Karr of Savetheinternet.com on CISPA.