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...
she seems to have confused colleagues with minions..
ReplyDeleteAndrew Muhling Easy mistake to make, by all accounts she confused "Ministers" with "Minions" as well.
ReplyDeleteChecks date, sighs, resolves to mute everything in his stream for the next 30 hours or so ...
ReplyDeleteStephen Gunnell Well it IS the Shovel (which is always parody) but Ms Credlin really has joined Sky News (which provided the genesis for this particular piece of brilliance from the Shovel).
ReplyDeleteBut otherwise, yes, muting is wise for the next day or so. ;)
I did post it to my Jokes and Gags collection, so no apology here.
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