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From: elag <elag@cloud8.net>
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Subject: Re: All Internet voting is insecure: report
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:35:04 -0400
Organization: de mortuis nil nisi bonum
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Parry wrote:
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> elag wrote:
> >
> > Paul Kinsler wrote:
> > >
> > > Online voting is fundamentally insecure due to the architecture of the
> > > Internet, according to leading cyber-security experts.
> > >
> > > Using a voting system based upon the Internet poses a "serious and
> > > unacceptable risk" for election fraud and is not secure enough for something
> > > as serious as the election of government officials, according to the four
> > > members of the Security Peer Review Group, an advisory group formed by the US
> > > Department of Defense to evaluate a new on-line voting system.
> > >
> > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35078.html
> >
> > Agreed... now what?
>
> The plot sounds familiar. I believe in the next scene the computers
> start electing robots to public office.
Rise Robots Rise
be not humanity's reprise
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