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...
Leia needs to be added to the lineup... ;)
ReplyDeleteI still claim Kylo is a drama queen, not a princess
ReplyDeleteWe'll Leia isn't a Disney design. She was sort of slave-traded in ...
ReplyDeleteStephen Gunnell Disney own Star Wars, and Leia's was a Princess (noting that she's a general now).
ReplyDeleteSo she's a Disney Princess as far as I'm concerned. :)
However, she was a princess before The Mouse. And was sold into the ... hareem. So she's not born and bred, as it were.
ReplyDeleteJohn Samuel I see you hold to the Pirates of Penzance definition of ancestors then. I still say not and she is better off for it.
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