Sentences with phrase «computer voting security»

So DeBeauvoir took a very unusual step: She gave the keynote speech at a computer voting security conference, challenging the assembled computer scientists to build her the voting system of her dreams.

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Leading up to the election, questions were raised about the security of state computer systems that protect voting data.

Alex Halderman, a computer science professor who has studied voting machine security, told Politico that he believes there will be consequences if the U.S. voting system isn't fixed.

«There is no such thing as security,» said Teresa Hommel, a staunch opponent of electronic voting, who argued that even the FBI and U.S. Military have difficulty keeping computer systems safe.

Whereas if you let people vote online, that puts more responsibility in terms of data security into the hands of the voter (which might be perceived as positive), but knowledge about how votes will be counted or how you would go about verifying that the voting process was not corrupted, requires more than just basic computer knowledge.

Computer scientists had been sounding alarms about the rampant security flaws in voting machines for years, and the manufacturers hadn't responded.

Digital Technologies have completely reshaped how we go about every aspect of our lives: • Financial: our jobs, online shopping and banking, automated trading • Social: email, mobiles, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Skype, blogs • Political: electronic voting, grassroots movements (Arab Spring) • Recreational: computer games, streaming video and music, augmented reality (Pokémon Go), fitness and activity monitoring (FitBit) • Educational: free access to information, web search (Google), collaborative resources (Wikipedia), online learning (Khan Academy) and MOOCs, learning analytics • Ethical: privacy and cyber security, data protection (Facebook, the census)

(My earlier article refers to some other sources, including computer security experts, who are very sceptical of remote voting of any kind.)

With a computer vote, the buyer can watch the vote, or buy the PIN or other security code or device and cast the vote personally.

A lot of computer security experts do not think any current offering of Internet voting is sufficiently secure — and many do not trust most implementations of electronic voting, even when the voter comes to a polling station to vote.