Skip to main content

Home/ Digit_al Society/ Group items tagged evoting

Rss Feed Group items tagged

dr tech

Open Rights Group Scotland - E-voting's Unsolvable Problem - 0 views

  •  
    Ahhh ITGS group - a great discussion on the evoting problem would have been perfect for your Paper 2. "Remember: all of these principles of security, anonymity and verifiability have to be achieved in an understandable way. If they can't be then you get the opportunity for losers to claim fraud, and their supporters to believe them."
dr tech

Independent Report on E-voting in Estonia | A security analysis of Estonia's Internet v... - 0 views

  •  
    "There were staggering gaps in procedural and operational security, and the architecture of the system leaves it open to cyberattacks from foreign powers, such as Russia. "
dr tech

Pirate party founder: 'Online voting? Would you want 4chan to decide your government?' ... - 0 views

  •  
    "In 2012, a contest for US schools to win a gig by Taylor Swift was hijacked by members of the 4chan website, who piled ​on its online vote in an attempt to send the pop star to a school for deaf children. Now, imagine a similar stunt being pulled for a general election, if voting could be done online. Far-fetched? Not according to Rick Falkvinge, founder of Sweden's Pirate ​party. "Voting over the internet? Would you really want 4chan to decide your next government?" he said, during a debate about democracy and technology in London, organised by the BBC as part of its Democracy Day event."
dr tech

Should Britain introduce electronic voting? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

  •  
    ""In the 2020 general election, secure online voting should be an option for all voters," said the report. In response, the Electoral Commission's chair, Jenny Watson, said: "We will consider carefully the balance between maintaining the security of the system, whilst making it as accessible as possible for voters as part of this.""
dr tech

Leading voting machine company admits it lied, reveals that its voting machines ship ba... - 0 views

  •  
    "Kim Zetter asked them, on behalf of the New York Times, if their products shipped with backdoors allowing remote parties to access and alter them over the internet, they told her unequivocally that they did not engage in this practice. But now, in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden [D-OR], they admit that they lied, and that they "provided pcAnywhere remote connection software … to a small number of customers between 2000 and 2006.""
dr tech

A critical flaw in Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of everything wrong wit... - 0 views

  •  
    ""We have only examined a tiny fraction of this code base and found a critical, election-stealing issue," said Lewis, who is currently executive director of the Open Privacy Research Society, a Canadian nonprofit that develops secure and privacy-enhancing software for marginalized communities. "Even if this [backdoor] is closed its mere existence raises serious questions about the integrity of the rest of the code.""
dr tech

Hackers breach dozens of voting machines brought to conference | TheHill - 0 views

  •  
    "The conference acquired 30 machines for hackers to toy with. Every voting machine in the village was hacked. Though voting machines are technologically simple, they are difficult for researchers to obtain for independent research."
dr tech

John Oliver on exploitable voting machines: 'We must fix this' | Culture | The Guardian - 0 views

  •  
    "Oliver also pointed to a Finnish man who once found "one of the most severe security flaws ever discovered in a voting system" in US machines and alerted their manufacturers, who released a patch to fix the problem in 2006. The state of Georgia, however, never installed it, and the Senate report noted their machines hadn't been updated since at least 2005. "They'd essentially been hitting the 'remind me tomorrow' button on a critical security update for over a decade," Oliver explained, "meaning Georgia's election systems operate on the same level of technical proficiency as Every Dad"."
1 - 13 of 13
Showing 20 items per page