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...
Why not both!?!
ReplyDeleteI'm from the south... If you can fry it and dip it we do 😁
ReplyDeleteSauce on top of anything is always a losing proposition unless you are eating it with a knife and fork.
ReplyDeleteAnother vote for both
ReplyDeleteNo sauce.
ReplyDeleteSoak the thing in sauce. It's the only way to be sure
ReplyDeleteIt depends... if it is a full size one then one the top but if it is one of the party size ones then you have to dip :)
ReplyDeleteBoth!
ReplyDeleteEither, as the mood takes me!
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