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Voting machine integrity through transparency
Voting machine integrity through transparency
Posted Mar 27, 2008 12:21 UTC (Thu) by ahoogerhuis (subscriber, #4041)Parent article: Voting machine integrity through transparency
TPM? Clearly you have not understood what TPM is created for. It's there for Big Media(tm) to verify they get eough of your money, not for you to verify you get your tax money's worth from your gummint. ;) -A
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Voting machine integrity through transparency
Posted Mar 27, 2008 14:40 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link]
And here I was thinking, "finally, a good use for platform lock-down!" Technological protection measures should only be used where something legitimately needs to be protected, and then they should work. The security of a voting system in operation is certainly a legitimate example of a place where hard verification and few keys should be used.