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Online Voting Not Safe: Definitive Proof

Bill Bore | 28.04.2002 16:45

Financial Times reports the case of the Vivendi company, which has been thrown into chaos after its own internet elections were hacked.

Its of secondary importance that this happened to Vivendi, a capitalist enterprise; the more serious issue is that online voting IS NOT SAFE.


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Bill Bore
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The article, and background reading

28.04.2002 19:58

For those who prefer a URL to a general hint that it's on the FT website somewhere:

 http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3ZFM8DI0D&live=true&tagid=ZZZLZDL1B0C&subheading=media,%20entertainment,%20%20sport

Computer-based (whether internet or not) voting is a fraught area for security. There's a good overview of the subject at  http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0012.html#1 and more detail than you'll ever need here:  http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html

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