[ NNSquad ] Online voting system vendors dismiss concerns of hacking and resort to ad hominem attacks against researchers

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Online voting system vendors dismiss concerns of hacking and resort to
ad hominem attacks against researchers

http://j.mp/YT0BSF  (CNN - "Why you can't vote online yet.")

    But that argument hasn't been enough to bring online voting into the
    mainstream. For that, Weber places the blame squarely on election
    officials whom he says aren't interested in changing the status quo.
    "They find online voting culturally distasteful," Weber says. "They
    bring up theoretical hacking situations in order to make people afraid
    of the concept of change. And unfortunately it works."  Security
    researchers don't think those concerns are merely theoretical. Michael
    Coates, chair of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and
    director of security assurance at Firefox maker Mozilla, says hackers
    will attack anything worth hacking.

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Note the online voting system vendors dismissing concerns about
hacking, and even resorting to ad hominem attacks against computer
scientists and other researchers opposed to online voting systems.

--Lauren--
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