Re: 2008: The year of hack the vote?

Kevin Kretz writes:
 | dangeer.org wrote:
 | >  More people use just those three
 | > than will *ever* vote.
 | More people under 40, certainly.  But in '04 there were
36 million 
 | people over 65, most of whom are eligible to vote.  You
know a lot of 
 | 70-year old e-gamblers or FaceBook members?


I don't but my many over-70 relatives all have
some sort of e-mail now, many from AOL where
we know from history the price of buying the
AOL screenames in bulk from an insider was at
the rate of $0.001/name.

Quoting my friend Marcus Ranum, the Internet
will remain as insecure as it can and still
apparently function.  Why should voting be
different?

We are approaching a rat hole...

--dan

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On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:34:55PM -0500, dangeer.org
wrote:
| Quoting my friend Marcus Ranum, the Internet
| will remain as insecure as it can and still
| apparently function.  Why should voting be
| different?

Voting is different (by which I mean worse) because the
requirements
are hard.

Should voters and ballots be identified? Should you be
required to
show up in person? What about confirmability? How important
is that
versus usability?

Electronic commerce, by comparison, is a walk in the park.

Adam

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