Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Avi Rubin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Avi Rubin.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Aviel David "Avi" Rubin 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.

American - Scientist | Born: November 8, 1967

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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.

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.

Avi Rubin

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

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

Avi Rubin

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

Avi Rubin

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.

Avi Rubin

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.

Avi Rubin

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

Avi Rubin

As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.

Avi Rubin

What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by companies and hospitals are completely open and offer no protection for the data on them.

Avi Rubin

I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

Avi Rubin

I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

Avi Rubin

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

Avi Rubin

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Avi Rubin

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