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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Security Researchers Warn New Jersey's Emergency
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Mon Nov 5 19:49:57 2012
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:25:06 -0800
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Security Researchers Warn New Jersey's Emergency Email Voting Could Be
An Insecure, Illegal Nightmare
http://j.mp/VP0GDy (Forbes)
"It took less than 24 hours for Matt Blaze, a computer science
professor at the University of Pennsylvania who audited voting systems
for California and Ohio in 2007, to start pointing out the problems
with that workaround: Unencrypted emails can be spoofed or tampered
with. The computers used to send the emails, many of which will be in
public places like libraries or shelters, could be compromised to
change or block voters' choices. And the computer that receives the
emails may be just as vulnerable to sabotage-given that voters will be
sending their ballots as attached files, the receiving PC will need to
open attachments sent by unknown users, one of the most common
practices leading to malware infections."
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