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[ NNSquad ] Security Researchers Warn New Jersey's Emergency Email Voting Could Be An Insecure, Illegal Nightmare
Security Researchers Warn New Jersey's Emergency Email Voting Could Be An Insecure, Illegal Nightmare http://j.mp/VP0GDy (Forbes) "It took less than 24 hours for Matt Blaze, a computer science professor at the University of Pennsylvania who audited voting systems for California and Ohio in 2007, to start pointing out the problems with that workaround: Unencrypted emails can be spoofed or tampered with. The computers used to send the emails, many of which will be in public places like libraries or shelters, could be compromised to change or block voters' choices. And the computer that receives the emails may be just as vulnerable to sabotage-given that voters will be sending their ballots as attached files, the receiving PC will need to open attachments sent by unknown users, one of the most common practices leading to malware infections." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad