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Estonia is the world leader in using online voting for its national elections. Its government has done a great deal to improve the security of the system, which is now used by up to 25% of voters. The country's "I-voting system" is touted by proponents of online voting in the U.S. to claim that secure Internet voting is possible.
It isn't. Early in May an international team of independent security experts accredited by the Estonian government reported severe security vulnerabilities in that country's "I-voting system." Elections, the researchers found, "could be stolen, disrupted, or cast into disrepute."
These results have serious implications for the push to internet voting in other countries, particularly in the U.S.
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Hack the Vote: The Perils of the Online Ballot Box
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For recreational use only.
(Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Friday May 30 2014, @04:30PM
It wasn't paywalled for me, but then again I use self-destructing cookies [mozilla.org] and spoof my http-referrer [mozilla.org] as google.com which makes me invisible to many paywalls.
I submitted the "blurb" because the VerifiedVoting site has been at the forefront of e-voting analysis and criticism for over a decade and is an important resource on the general topic. This story isn't so much about the specifics of estonia's system but the general topic of the push for insecure evoting systems in the US.