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[ PRIVACY Forum ] [ NNSquad ] Re: MUST READ: Risks in Internet Voting
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Sun Nov 4 21:56:58 2012
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----- Forwarded message from Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> -----
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 21:28:44 -0500
From: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com>
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Re: MUST READ: Risks in Internet Voting - From
October 2012 CACM
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To: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
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I just posted some video of a related event - a recent forum in NYC on the
vulnerabilty of all e-voting systems to fraud. Some interesting stuff about
a) ownership of the firms (some shady) that make/operate the systems, b) a
general lack of oversight/ accountability, c) vulnerability to
manipulation. According to two panelists, the MOVE
Act<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_and_Overseas_Voter_Empowerment_Act>'s
back end is now operated by a Spanish company. .Several other countries,
for instance Ireland<http://www.independent.ie/national-news/54m-voting-machines-scrapped-for-9-each-3153437.html>,
have dumped electronic voting entirely.
j
Full Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAPqimT85o0
Highlights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROftmMKkYbo
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> wrote:
>
> MUST READ: Risks in Internet Voting - From October 2012 CACM
>
> http://j.mp/SrasLf (ACM)
>
> "Almost all the arguments on behalf of Internet voting ignore a
> critical risk Internet-based voting shares with all computerized
> voting-wholesale theft. In the days of hand-counted paper ballots,
> election theft was conducted at the retail level by operatives at
> polling places and local election offices. By contrast, introduction
> of computers into the voting process created the threat that elections
> can be stolen by inserting malware into code on large numbers of
> machines. The situation is even more dangerous with Internet voting,
> since both the central servers and the voters' computers are
> potentially under attack from everywhere. Despite the serious threats
> it poses to election integrity, Internet voting is being used in
> several countries and U.S. states, and there is increasing public
> pressure to adopt it elsewhere. We examine some of these threats, in
> the hope of encouraging the technical community to oppose Internet
> voting unless and until the threats are eliminated."
>
> - - -
>
> Key insights: Internet voting is fundamentally insecure. // Most
> people do not associate widely publicized viruses and worms with
> Internet voting. // Internet voting is being pushed in many countries
> by vendors, election officials, and well-meaning people who do not
> understand the risks.
>
> --Lauren--
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