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Researcher Who Reported E-voting Vulnerability Targeted By Police Raid in Argentina
TrixX writes: Police have raided the home of an Argentinian security professional who discovered and reported several vulnerabilities in the electronic ballot system (Google translation of Spanish original) to be used next week for elections in the city of Buenos Aires. The vulnerabilities (exposed SSL keys and ways to forge ballots with multiple votes) had been reported to the manufacturer of the voting machines, the media, and the public about a week ago. There has been no arrest, but his computers and electronics devices have been impounded (Spanish original). Meanwhile, the information security community in Argentina is trying to get the media to report this notorious attempt to "kill the messenger." Another source (Spanish original).
Just FTR, the group organizing this election is the government of the city of Buenos Aires. which is not run by the Kirchner but one of the opposition parties
I can provide you with this english link. This has not been reported in english speaking media yet, sorry for not having something better but this is breaking news yet. https://gist.githubusercontent...
Some days before the elections taking place today in BsAs, a guy found "bugs" and other mistakes from which the Frente Para la Victoria, the PRO, the Frente Renovador, and other polithical parties from here may take advantage of. The article is fine and describes in a very suitable and short way what's really happening. This is obvious, just as with Nisman, and other cases: we are being ruled by a right-wing party disguised as a populist left-wing party who wants to stay in the power, no matter what. Just like in some other countries.
The best thing to do for people who has no idea what's happening, like you, would be to explain the general context in which this specific case is taking place.
The modern "peronistas" polithical parties always assure their "eternal" position in the governement by giving niggas ("negros villeros") some coke and hotdogs since they just don't care about the rest, 'cause they have nothing to lose. Then you give them these "planes sociales" (asignación universal por hijo, plan procreAR, plan trabajAR, etc) and make sure you have them happy for a while. Once you've done this, you gotta start spreading around propaganda to convince low and middle class that you really are carrying on with the agenda J. D. Perón had in his first presidence back in 1945. After all that, finally, you can choke the uptown-hypster-conservative class by the balls using low and middle class against them. And when the party is on the hiatus (like it's gonna be in 2/3 months) you just get the fuck outta here to the Bahamas, leaving everything prepared for your comeback in 4/8 years (with help from Scioli, Massa, etc).
What does all this have to do with the article? 1) Manipulating the votes would re-assure the victory of Scioli (a right wing-burocrat disguised as a left-wing, close friend of Menem, that contributed with the neoliberal economic State general overthrown in Latin America back in the '90 to spread EEUU's geopolithical rules, and who has the guts to confront all of us, not cause he's a good man, but because Argentina's mafia and other polithics will maintain his butt clean and assure his polithical status in the future) and therefore a future comeback and victory from the kirchneristas or Cristina herself; 2) Scioli would also leave everything prepared for other kirchneristas to win the next elections in 2019 (since the dólar is gonna skyrocket because of all this fachade of maintaining these "planes sociales" without a real planning and agenda with money nobody will pay for, wasting more resources and money to make everyone think they really are carrying on with populist-economic decisions) by making sure bills are payed and that mouths are shutted with represion, and by checking that "La Cámpora" keeps ruling as a student-polithical dangerous party to allow, with their influence, a comeback from Cristina & company); 3) Internationally, I suspect, sooner or later they'll have to deal with Daddy and mammy (EEUU and Europe), because with all the "Griesa" default debate, plus our firendly relationship with Russia and China (we're more their hooker on duty than their friend) America is not smiling at us, and personally, now that shit is scalating with Russia and Asia in general it's their opportunitty to re-assure their worldwide hegemony; and the fact that this guys are comfortably standing on power, it'll be no trouble taking decisions against argentinian's will.
So, no doubt the guy who reported the problems described in the article just got in trouble. I doubt they're gonna kill him or something. But he will have to walk looking over his shoulder his entire life.
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