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...
I don't think I could physically fit 8 glasses of water a day XD
ReplyDeleteI tend to go for weeks without drinking straight water..I have 1 coffee at about 7 am.. one at about 9 or 10 am... another at 8 pm.
ReplyDeleteThat's usually all the liquids I consume every day..
I may have a beer with an afternoon meal (I put a 6 pack in the fridge a month ago, I think there's still 3 or 4 left, so that's not a common event)
Only time I will drink much water is if it's over 40 degrees.
Hasn't killed me yet.