Internet-based voting for government elections is sucker bait Democracy's Biggest Cyberthreat May Not Be Malware
http://j.mp/Maraz0 (Internet Evolution) "Attempts by other countries to design and build alternative online voting systems have met with failure as a result of the more traditional cybersecurity threats that Kaspersky alludes to. Recall what happened when Washington, DC, introduced efforts to allow Internet voting for overseas voters. When invited to test it, security experts hacked the system within 48 hours. To prove their point, the hackers voted Futurama's drunken robot Bender to head the District of Columbia's school board." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
