As a long time reader of comp.risks, and having a professional interest in security (as a sysadmin), I'll take this opportunity to say that anyone who is promoting online voting as a replacement for paper ballots is (in my opinion) one or more of a)Hopelessly naive, b)Frighteningly optimistic, c)Woefully ignorant of the problems of authentication combined with anonymity, d)Ignoring the problems of coercion, or (worst of all) e) Willing to accept vote tampering. I do not seriously think that the Electoral Commissioner would be willing to accept vote tampering, but every electronic or online system has been demonstrated to be vulnerable to it. Worse, such attacks can occur at any point, be it in corrupt coding, interference with the ballots, or by injecting forged ballots. All of these have be proven to be possible in every practical and theoretical system proposed to date. This is ignoring the problem of d) - if the voting is not occurring in a public place, how do you prove that t...
wow, something that might survive living with me!
ReplyDeleteNice :-) Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteIf it was about 10% the price I would get one for my daughter. Guess I'll just wait a few years.... but by then she won't need anything so tough!
ReplyDeletemmmmmm tough with a stylus you can actually do work with
ReplyDeleteYes... Looks promising, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteyea if it's got a screen that works outdoors and the stylus works as advertised it might be worth it
ReplyDeleteThey make a big point of the sunlight-capable screen, and the stylus looks good in the videos...
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