Saturday, November 03, 2007
Cluefulness on e-voting in Ohio
Ohio's Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is spending $1.7 million for independent security reviews of voting machines.
That's the sort of scrutiny everyone should give them, but there's a fundamental problem not being addressed. Finding bugs and fixing them when they're found barely works for normal software, and if you try it with security-critical software you'll wind up with problems even after a review. Security has to be designed in from the start.
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That's the sort of scrutiny everyone should give them, but there's a fundamental problem not being addressed. Finding bugs and fixing them when they're found barely works for normal software, and if you try it with security-critical software you'll wind up with problems even after a review. Security has to be designed in from the start.