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...
Bromley-by-Bow is an easy Bidemeyer's Slip from that, so I'll take it. We're not playing for sheep stations after all.
ReplyDeleteI would assume that the Circle Line is "wild" as would be usual for a Wednesday !
ReplyDeleteFrancesco Scaglioni absolutely, but remember to allow for Bing's Exception, as you are in another timezone.
ReplyDeleteJust remember we're below the Equator here so above the Diagonal is really below the Diagonal for us.
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