| Re: All Internet voting is insecure: report |
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| elag (elag@cloud8.net) |
2004/01/24 17:27 |
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From: elag <elag@cloud8.net>
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Subject: Re: All Internet voting is insecure: report
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:27:02 -0500
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Paul Kinsler wrote:
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> Online voting is fundamentally insecure due to the architecture of the
> Internet, according to leading cyber-security experts.
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> 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?
I vote for an electronic lynching.
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