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Re: All Internet voting is insecure: report Posted via Supernews, ht ..
Parry (parry@perfectOMITmail.com) 2004/01/25 00:00

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.

-- Parry


> I vote for an electronic lynching.



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