Voting online
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:30 pm
Now, most people on this board, as well as anyone with a moderate grasp of the internet, are familiar with the concept of making one's wishes known via the internet. From food to clothing, we can pretty much get what we want, when we want, without putting on clothing or getting off our asses to do more than simply answering our doors.
And again, most people are used to the fact that the internet never has been the most secure thing in the world. Anyone with malicious intent, from the mysterious uber-hacker living on Jolt and little else, to the nine-year old in mom's basement who has just h4x0r3d j00, someone out there can seriously render your internet experience FUBAR to the nth degree.
Now, considering all of this, do you think that it's a wise thing to allow people to vote for the next Commander in Chief, via the internet? Currently, it's possible to alter the Diebold E-Voting using a 5-line Visual Basic script.
5 lines.
That's a hell of a lot less effort than it took to type out this post.
I don't know if it's just me, but finding out that my vote didn't count for anything because someone decided to do a bit of slick engineering on my county's voting server seems a lot more serious than seeing that some pre-teen in New Mexico hacked my pizza.
And again, most people are used to the fact that the internet never has been the most secure thing in the world. Anyone with malicious intent, from the mysterious uber-hacker living on Jolt and little else, to the nine-year old in mom's basement who has just h4x0r3d j00, someone out there can seriously render your internet experience FUBAR to the nth degree.
Now, considering all of this, do you think that it's a wise thing to allow people to vote for the next Commander in Chief, via the internet? Currently, it's possible to alter the Diebold E-Voting using a 5-line Visual Basic script.
5 lines.
That's a hell of a lot less effort than it took to type out this post.
I don't know if it's just me, but finding out that my vote didn't count for anything because someone decided to do a bit of slick engineering on my county's voting server seems a lot more serious than seeing that some pre-teen in New Mexico hacked my pizza.