 Welcome, welcome to the DEF CON 28 safe mode and this is the lounge of voting machine hacking village at DEF CON. This is the fourth time we are at DEF CON and this has been, every year it is a hassle to get everything running. This year we have been doing something we have never done before, trying to go virtual in just a few months time. It has been a trend the most amount of work and so many people have been helping us to get this done. We are here at Quantico and at Quantico Cyber Hub of voting village along with IACS Village and Kapalato villages. We are operating our back end from the same central location so that we can help each other and support each other through this whole exercise. It's very nice again to be back in DEF CON, this is really a weird experience because we are not meeting in a meet space instead of in virtual space. I certainly hope next year we will be able to again have our controversies, have our disagreements and our wonderful fears over physical space and do it that way. Before I start to introduce what this year is going to bring, let me first of all thank Mary Hanlis. She is behind the scenes helping to organize this whole thing. My two co-organizers will have a little bit of word. Unfortunately I will need to speak on behalf of one of the co-organizers because he is home and unfortunately so ill that he felt that coming to video call is too much a hassle at the moment. Let's start from Maggie, a member of McAlpine, one of the co-organizers. Maggie, if you want to give a word. Thank you all so much for joining us. This is obviously a really crazy year but maybe it's going to be a really good year. It's going to be really interesting to see what DEF CON virtual is like. Obviously this is a very important year from election perspective. You may have heard there is going to be an election later this year. So we hope that you will find our talks interesting and engaging and we hope they will make you want to vote even harder than ever. That is definitely going to be really important this year. So thank you so much for joining us. Please have patience as we build this airplane in the sky. We think we've got a really great lineup for you and we're just really excited to have been able to meet you virtually this year and to just in general be able to share what we can of the voting village with you. And I'll turn it over to Dan. So the next person to be in the list is Dan Weber. Previous years we have been really running this mostly out of our own pockets and we haven't had a non-profit of our own to support our operations. This year it's changed. We have finally completed the incorporation of non-profits supporting the voting village Election Indexity Foundation. Dan Weber is a co-organizer of the voting village but also the CEO of our non-profit Election Indexity Foundation. Thank you, Harry. Hey guys, it's a pleasure and honor to be here and talking to you guys today. You know, it's really important this year from election integrity. Not that it's more important any other year but with everything going on in the world and such, you know, there's just a heightened sensitivity as well as a need to get out there and to volunteer, be part of the process. You know, if you can get people out to vote, that's great. If you can go and become a poll worker, that's even more important because, you know, with the aging population and folks and that, they're just not able to come out. And so, you know, get out there and volunteer for it. You know, we're very privileged. HBO, if you probably have seen it, did not go to at voting village DC in that you'll find the link. They've opened up the movie Kill Chain of which both Harry and Maggie are part of and such for a free viewing for all of DEF CON. So until Sunday night, 1159, you know what I'm saying? PM, they've allowed us to go out and do that, you know, visit us at election intake, which is a Twitter hashtag for it and such and be part of it. You know, part of our goal and mission is to continue to do these voting villages to do education, get out there and teach folks about, you know, cybersecurity around the election and participate with other communities and such that are out there. And so we really appreciate the sport and you bearing with us this year as we've gone into safe mode with DEF CON here at the voting village. Thanks so much, guys. Sorry. Yeah. So as we are now official nonprofit, we also are doing a little fundraising by selling swag. There's a link in our discord where you can choose which kind of swag you might want to buy if you want to support our ongoing effort to educate people on a cyber warfare and cyber security on election and election security on whole outside of cyber. Because we're talking a lot about election security measurements and educating which are in a physical space instead of a cyber space. And a quick shout out to Mara Williams for doing our artist here. It's really incredible, really beautiful stuff. And last but not least, I mean, the movie which I mentioned is it was filmed three years at DEF CON. So you see a lot of familiar faces from dark tangent to Dr. Maus in the movie. So I hope you join her for us. And now, unfortunately, Matt plays one of the co-founders and co-organizers that he is. He's very excited. We have worked very hard for this. He has been having a specified a hopefully not far enough. And he's home in in condition that he I spoke with him just before this. And he wanted me to express how excited he is and how he's regretting that. At this point of time, he didn't feel that doing a video call would be possible because of how ill he is. So we certainly hope to speed the recovery and that everything turns out the best possible way. And we truly miss that he's not here with us because Matt has always been. Not only for our village, but DEF CON and all the other conferences. Such a huge amount of energy and encouragement and guidance how to get these things done. So this year, because it's election year and this is an election year, not only in the United States of America, but in a number of other countries. So we are so focused into the everything dominating cycle about US elections that we forecast. There are a number of other important democracies who are equally having a said, a Bellwater and said, said water election this year, still this year. So let's keep in mind we are all in this together as a democracy. We all are facing similar challenges. We all have similar kind of attacks against our systems and our governance. So whatever we have. You talked about that, but more about that later. First of all, I would like to introduce a call of our last year started Unhad developed initiative. Unhad developed, which we started last year was never even to be a one of it was ongoing. And the concept in its heart is to provide election officials, local officials who are under resource and have limited access to a knowledge and expertise. Access to the local area will be patriotic wherever they are. Hackers and security researchers who can provide them information, guidance, advice, value valuation of what they have been proposed. So we started that last year. Because 2020 is such an important college in the U.S. And we are facing a unique set of problems. We were not preparing to coronavirus. We have to right now a lot of things has to be changed and implemented from practices from another state have to be implemented over the board. See how that fits with a lot of practices. We started and it is called cyber search. Cyber search this year is starting right now and ending up the election. This is a one of it is different project. Making that everything as possible for this election year. We have been calling volunteers and we have introduced our channels for the cyber search both in text and in video. We have been calling volunteers and want to help their local election officials. And we have always obviously offered also to local election officials who need to have help by themselves and tell us what they think are best resources they need to have or want to have. Bearing in mind that sometimes they don't even know unfortunately exactly what they need but that's part of the learning experience. We had in our head a false image. We think that there is an election office. And the election office has an ID department and the ID department has a security practice. That is very much not true with most of the United States and most of the world actually but especially not most of the US. There is an election office and they might have one or two ID people part-time and won't use. No security practice whatsoever. Security if it's existing is outsourced. It comes from organizations who are volunteering help like Department of Homeland Security or volunteers and companies who are selling them services but they really don't have in-house expertise. And if you look since Help America both that 2002 hunts new technology have been pouring in. You raise the time in the ID department which happens to do elections and not the other way around. The local election officials need help and they don't have funds. They don't have resources. They don't have access to the expertise. So we are here to help and make certain that any way we can we will pair knowledge to the people who need to have the knowledge. And local election officials they are working really hard. They're good people. They are in an impossible situation. In an impossible situation because of the asymmetrical nature of cyber war. Every other war we fight, land, sea, underwater, airspace are natural domains with natural laws of physics. Cyber is a man named domain. It's inherently horrible. It's inherently symmetry. And in that environment they are fighting a war. If you, if there are four nations that have a land invasion with hands coming to you, you wouldn't ask the local sheriff, please stop them. In reality that's what happens in the local election officials. They are the last and only plan of defense massively out of poverty. And they are dealing with the nation state. It won't be the highly motivated allies. So please join us in that initiative in this court. And also please join us in the election in the committee foundation and tell what else in the committee foundation can do to help you, especially when we do the education, et cetera. Please join us with the Kilce movie on the movie night. Speaker track will start right after this talk. And speaker track this year because we are virtual, we have turned this to be a little bit different tone than last year's last year's because we after the talks, we have been able to have a debate on the hallways and the room and you can get feedback. There's a lot of opportunities. We don't have that this year. The speakers have no way of knowing whether they have talked as well received or not at the time the spoke the talk is over or immediately after that because there's is so one way straight right now in most cases. So we are here to help. So this year we have been deliberately involving speakers who have what proposing or asking comments or ideas, which has been created was rejected by security versus speakers who come with a package and are wanting to have a feedback or are offering in a data set for research. So what we want to do, we invite the same way as in that when we are going to come. No, we are compiling annual report. And in this year, the annual report will have a bigger section about the speaker track talks than normally is. We are in writing feedback in short form or on form with your name to be quoted with your handle only or completely anonymous feedback comments short form long form for all the talks. And from those we will compile into the annual report for the speakers for the community in large. What are what were the guidance, what were the thoughts from the greater security community around the world and especially the U.S. So we are welcoming that. This is something which we saw the opportunity because we go to virtual where we can do something which we wouldn't have been doing when we were in person. Again, since we are doing this this way, this year, as always, but especially this year, being selected as speaker is not endorsement by us that we are behind the speaker or the ideas. We don't stand in that instead we are saying this is there's a lot of things that we need to talk about and what we need to be educating inside. So please provide your feedback. In the case there's a research, please provide your research. We have given you all in the documentation in the speaker track documentation and now on morning time, links how to find everything and the idea again is you can provide the feedback in any mode for research for anonymous handle or name what which or background information without quotation at all. We are actually asking if you want to be called even if you are anonymous. So please provide us feedback. We will compile it and since we don't have a normal physical hacking going that much, the report will be more about that. We also encourage because people have from last years all the things and information which you have extracted from the physical devices we have all that research is hopefully going to resume and once there's outcomes of those research, we are more unwilling and we are welcoming and we are almost begging. We send that information and we will compile it to an anonymous report. Last time, please, this year because of the nature of this pandemic, as it were, we are quickly changing the gears. There have been a lot of debate out on the media. At the surge of interest, we have all probably been exposed about the controversy over mail-in balancing. There is again these ideas about internet voting or mobile phone voting or blockchain voting. Ideas which are not only rejected by security, community but also over and over demonstrated in academic papers and theory with papers why this is not an implementation issue. This is a fundamental issue which we don't think there's a solution in the foreseeable future of how these technologies can be implemented. So we have talks which are explaining how you run elections in this environment, what are the mechanisms we use to increase the trust. One of those being a paper last week published about how developing devices are unordinary. So why that technology when it provides a decent paper actually is not trustworthy. That would have been a bigger part of the debate if we would be voting more in person in a modern place, nevertheless, than it's a rally in new technology. We will be having talks about tools, how you can check and communicate with about your own elections with central resources, find help and validate what you have seen is something which should be further investigated and should be further reported. We are always talking about risk limiting orders as a method of validating that the outcome of the election has picked up the right winners of risk limiting orders, a low labor mathematical method which allows a huge public participation and transparency. The method is about proving that the election, all of the comments right now that every single last vote is coming accurately because that never happens really and it doesn't matter if the election is still proven to have the right results. And as always we are going to have conversations about what are all the ways we can do to improve it. So we have the channels opened, I hope this is on the podium I can check 20 minutes ago. We have the channels there to ask staff we are here to help. We can make changes if you have an idea, if you have an approach which you want to quickly introduce to other people. We do have a video and voice channels called the staff saying I would like to make a mini talk. I have this research project, I have these results, I have this image file I want to look at. Whatever it is you want to ask us can we do this? Please send us a note. We will figure out the time slot. We will put you into one of the video channels and we will make an announcement or the announcement channel that this new activity is going to be in. Whatever we can do to help make this more enjoyable for you, make more leverage your knowledge, make this to be better experience, more engaging experience, let us know. Whatever we can do, we are here to help. Again, this is no one of us has been here before. One thing I can guarantee, this is not going to be a smooth ride. So, bear with us and forgive us in the head that there will be glitches, there will be something going wrong. And if you see something, say something the same as every year, let us know what went wrong immediately. So we can try to fix it as it happens. We have a whole back infrastructure enabling us to, in a quite speedy manner, to address a lot of technical issues and address a lot of things which you might come up with. And of course, you know, if you have new ideas, that's okay. So be happy with us because we want to be happy with you and we are here to help you. Without further ado, I probably forgot something I should not say, but without further ado, I hope you have a safe and you stay safe. You have a safe. Yes, 28 seconds. Thank you.