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VeriSign and Secure Internet Voting
Bucky Katt writes "VeriSign announced Monday that it will provide key components of a system designed to let Americans abroad cast absentee votes over the Internet."
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So if you misspell the name of your candidate, Verisign will use its * wildcard to vote for its CEO automatically!
If I type in "Arnnold", will it pop up "Arianna" as the one it thinks I should be voting for?
Verisign has pulled a suprise victory in the California recall election.
...you'll be redirected to a site for entering into the elections?
First one to register eChad.com is the winner.
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Stratton Sclavos, CEO
Terry Kremian, Executive Vice President
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...Oh, you mean VeriSign. Oops!
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We have to love them them now. Put sitefinder behind us. Verisign is an American company helping America.
IF we complain about sitefinder being an abuse of power... the terrorists win.
BTW: heard those servers are going to be powered by SCO software
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a use for One Click(tm) technology here.
If you don't touch in the exact center of the canidate's button, your vote is automatically redirected to the highest paying advertiser.
I guess it doesn't really matter though. Now your vote is just as unreliable as the canidates.
...courts in Florida appoint our Presidents, don't they ?
Tired of being "punished" by the Slashdot $rtbl since 2002. I'm now over at http://soylentnews.org/ .
On that note, using Verisign's software, if you aren't sure who you want to vote, you can just put an asterisk after the first letter, and Verisign will choose whoever has the corresponding last name that paid them the most money!
http://mediagoblin.org/
I for one would love to be able to vote from the comfort of my home/work/cafe without having to wait in lines.
I would love to be able to vote from the comfort of your home/work/cafe, too. At the moment I think that will be easiest to do with a worm that infects your computer to make a man-in-the-middle attack possible, but we'll have to see Verisign's implementation before anyone works out the actual details. Fortunately for people who are tired of that "one man, one vote" nonsense, it's impossible for Verisign to develop secure online voting because no matter how bulletproof their own software is, the systems will still be as insecure as the operating system, server, email client or gullible users they're connected to.
Try to look at it as a form of "weighted" democracy: those people who can't figure out that they need to fix their IIS/WinXP/sshd/whatever holes have their votes weighted by 0, those people who can figure out how to exploit those holes have their votes weighted by 1000s.
And I'm sure if you accidently select the wrong candidate, or mistakenly select multiple candidates; rather than get an error message, Verisign will redirect your vote to a candidate of their choice at candidatefinder.verisign.com.
Good security is based upon reality and common sense. Common sense is a function of having common knowledge.
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