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Voting machine integrity through transparency

Voting machine integrity through transparency

Posted Mar 27, 2008 14:40 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022)
In reply to: Voting machine integrity through transparency by ahoogerhuis
Parent article: Voting machine integrity through transparency

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.


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