Hacker claims he rigged presidential elections throughout Latin America. Could it happen here?
http://boingboing.net/2016/03/31/hacker-claims-he-rigged-presid.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 Andres Sepulveda, identified as a hacker from Colombia, says he and other hackers installed malware to monitor the opponents of Enrique Pe?a Nieto during the 2012 Mexican presidential campaign, as part of a 'black propaganda' operation. - - - Probably false and/or exagerrated, but that's not the point. People routinely compare online banking with online voting, saying if we can make the former secure (uh ...) why not the latter? But of course, the latter also requires anonymity. Unwinding screwed-up financial transactions is one thing, unwinding a rigged online election a whole 'nuther kettle of rotting fish. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
