After about 18 months of work, the Internet Voting Panel I served on has released its final report on February 12 and submitted it to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. 
The report contains the panel’s conclusions and recommendations, and summarizes the benefits and challenges of implementing Internet voting for provincial or local government elections in B.C. On October 23, 2013 the panel published a Preliminary Report for a six-week public comment period, ending on December 4, 2013. The panel reviewed the commentary, including additional submissions from experts, academics and vendors in the Internet voting community. The report can be found on the panel’s web site.
Final Report on Internet Voting
San-Tsai Sun defends his Ph.D. dissertation on Web Single Sign-On Systems and graduates
My Ph.D. student San-Tsai Sun has successfully defended and submitted the final version of his thesis “Towards Improving the Usability and Security of Web Single Sign-On Systems.” 
He’s moving back to industry, where he will be applying his expertise in web security to real-world systems. Congratulations to San-Tsai on very successful completion of the Ph.D. program, with many quality publications.
What research do I really do?
My department has made a short introductory video-clip about my research group LERSSE. For those who won’t read papers but still want to get an idea about what kind of research my graduate students do, just sit back and enjoy this 3-minute long summary.
If your bot friends are nicer and more interesting …
The most recent article (by Eagle Gamma) appeared in Infoworld in early April. Unlike earlier coverage, it discusses more recent work (Design and Analysis of a Social Botnet), in which an economic analysis of Social Botnet feasability and challenges for throttling them is discussed. I loved a comment left by one of the readers: “If your bot friends are nicer and more interesting than those so-called friends you found in high school, well ….”
Project Presentations at Graduate Course in Security
Students in my graduate course on computer security are presenting their term papers on April 10. The topics vary from evaluation of Sybil detection mechanisms to detection of DDoS attacks on grid clusters. This mini-conference is open to public.
