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    The Ballot is Busted Before the Blockchain: A Security Analysis of Voatz pdf security internetpolicy.mit.edu
    lattera avatar via lattera 5 months ago | cached | 4 comments

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    gerikson avatar gerikson 5 months ago | link |

    From the abstract:

    We find that Voatz has vulnerabilities that allow different kinds of adversaries to alter, stop, or expose a user’s vote, including a sidechannel attack in which a completely passive network adversary can potentially recover a user’s secret ballot. We additionally find that Voatz has a number of privacy issues stemming from their use of third party services for crucial app functionality. Our findings serve as a concrete illustration of the common wisdom against Internet voting, and of the importance of transparency to the legitimacy of elections.

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      calvin avatar calvin 5 months ago | link |

      Twitter thread with links to news articles, as you wish.

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        TheAnig avatar TheAnig 5 months ago | link |

        I wonder how many of these issues are by design.

        I’ll just leave this here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOvEwtDycs

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          gcupc avatar gcupc 5 months ago | link |

          Relevant XKCD