Google Tech Talk January 20, 2011 Presented by Dr. David Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ABSTRACT In the last decade the administration of public elections in the United States has become increasingly computerized, leading to great concern in the security community about the security, reliability, privacy, and auditability of electronic voting systems. Although in the last few years there has been substantial progress, against great resistance, in raising the consciousness of state officials about the security vulnerabilities associated with computerized voting, recently the idea of Internet voting, ie using private computers or other devices to cast electronic ballots that are transported over the Internet has become increasingly attractive to legislators and election officials. In this talk we argue that Internet voting is much more dangerous than other forms of electronic voting because of the possibility that anyone on Earth, including a foreign nation state, can attack an Internet election from a remote position of safety, and with the possibility of changing the election outcome without ever being discovered. The number of attack modes is enormous, and the prospects for defense extremely weak. Last October the District of Columbia fielded an Internet voting system for an open test, allowing anyone to try it out or attempt to attack it. This test was to be the final hurdle before the system was put to use in the 2010 general election in November …
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xgunwingx says:
May 19, 2011 at 3:03 am (UTC 0)
People are paying money to not vote!?
flowewritharoma says:
May 19, 2011 at 3:59 am (UTC 0)
I have fined out this video right now.
docatomics says:
May 19, 2011 at 4:48 am (UTC 0)
…that is right , unlike our parasitic ruling elite whom we are told we hire or “vote for” to make our decisions are immune from the effects of fruadulent secret ballot ; which is why we hire them , right ?
~would it be interesting to try a real democracy forum that was incorruptible simply by the fact you can’t piece of the majority with any bribe or scam on each and every act of legislation. (realcanadiandemocracy*net was my attempt to look at this fraud of secret ballot and overcome it)
docatomics says:
May 19, 2011 at 5:26 am (UTC 0)
@docatomics…secret ballot is a time tested covet method by which the farce of Representative Democracy has always subjugated the convenient belief that the mass has democraticaly decided who shall make there most important decision for them
~grow up and make our own decisions, starting with a system that shall empower each citizen to input those decision into the collective being we all pay into. As representative has once again failed via competition, it is time for SELF REPRESENTATIOIN
docatomics says:
May 19, 2011 at 6:15 am (UTC 0)
…fuck that, if we can vote for a representative on the net we don’t need representatives
~we shall instead use that same tech to vote on the actual laws being proposed, to propose those laws and the ability over the Internet, to study unlimited data, opinion & belief on any change being considered. All Electronic voting must be verifiable by the public scrutiny , to assure your vote didn’t suffer tamper changing or should you decide to withdraw your support after the new law is tried.
docatomics says:
May 19, 2011 at 6:47 am (UTC 0)
…fuck that, if we can vote for a representative on the net we don’t need representatives
~we shall instead use that same tech to vote on the actual laws being proposed, to propose those laws and the ability over the Internet, to study unlimited data, opinion & belief on any change being considered. All Electronic voting must be verifiable by the public scrutiny , to assure your vote didn’t suffer tamper changing or should you decide to withdraw your support after the new law is tried.
tition1 says:
May 19, 2011 at 7:03 am (UTC 0)
“Dissaffected individuals from Bulgaria”
Dissafected individuals from the United States tend to point fingers at other countries
Cheers from a dissafected bulgarian…
brandonthebuck says:
May 19, 2011 at 7:11 am (UTC 0)
Fascinating: you can tell someone how you voted, but you can’t be able to prove it.
Samyaza1 says:
May 19, 2011 at 7:46 am (UTC 0)
@WJKPhD Hacking Democracy. Google it.
WJKPhD says:
May 19, 2011 at 8:20 am (UTC 0)
What a lot of hokum! Just scary stories – no science! 33 states in US, plus over a dozen countries in Europe and provinces in Canada have been using Internet voting for several years without tech or security problems (one DoS attack in Toronto, 2003, was stopped in 45 min) For An Alternative to David Jefferson’s Scary Stories, and Lack of Science
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