CVE-2026-45086

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. From 0.31.1 before 0.31.5 and in 0.32.0.rc1 before 0.32.0.rc2, a participant can directly load /admin/demographics/questions/editquestions and reach the demographics questionnaire editor without the required administrator authorization. The...

EUVD-2026-51664

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. From 0.31.1 before 0.31.5 and in 0.32.0.rc1 before 0.32.0.rc2, a participant can directly load /admin/demographics/questions/editquestions and reach the demographics questionnaire editor without the required administrator authorization. The...

Team Mirai and Democracy

Japan’s election last month and the rise of the country’s newest and most innovative political party, Team Mirai, illustrates the viability of a different way to do politics. In this model, technology is used to make democratic processes stronger, instead of undermining them. It is harnessed to...

Rewiring Democracy Ebook is on Sale

I just noticed that the ebook version of Rewiring Democracy is on sale for $5 on Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Google Play, Kobo, and presumably everywhere else in the US. I have no idea how long this will last. Also, Amazon has a coupon that brings the hardcover price dow...

CVE-2017-18521

The democracy-poll plugin before 5.4 for WordPress has CSRF via wp-admin/options-general.php?page=democracy-poll=l10n...

CVE-2017-18520

The democracy-poll plugin before 5.4 for WordPress has XSS via updatel10n in admin/class.DemAdminInit.php...

AI & Humans: Making the Relationship Work

Leaders of many organizations are urging their teams to adopt agentic AI to improve efficiency, but are finding it hard to achieve any benefit. Managers attempting to add AI agents to existing human teams may find that bots fail to faithfully follow their instructions, return pointless or obvious...

Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices

In his 2020 book, "Future Politics , " British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was "How much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society?" But in the early decades of this century,...

More on Rewiring Democracy

It's been a month since Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship was published. From what we know, sales are good. Some of the book's forty-three chapters are available online: chapters 2, 12, 28, 34, 38, and 41. We need more reviews--six on Amazon is no...

Will AI Strengthen or Undermine Democracy?

Listen to the Audio on NextBigIdeaClub.com Below, co-authors Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders share five key insights from their new book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship. What's the big idea? AI can be used both for and against the public...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: Nathan E. Sanders and I will be giving a book talk on Rewiring Democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on October 22, 2025, at noon ET. Nathan E. Sanders and I will be speaking and...

EUVD-2017-9637

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EUVD-2017-9636

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EUVD-2022-51202

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EUVD-2024-34501

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EUVD-2023-1946

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EUVD-2024-0744

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EUVD-2024-2253

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EUVD-2024-3017

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking and signing books at the Cambridge Public Library on October 22, 2025 at 6 PM ET. The event is sponsored by Harvard Bookstore. I’m giving a virtual talk about my book Rewiring Democracy at 1 PM ET on October 23, 2025...