[LINK] Pentagon dumps vulnerable Internet voting system

[Howard Lowndes]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 15:47, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> Pentagon dumps vulnerable Internet voting system
> Thu 5 February, 2004 23:54 
> By Will Dunham
> Reuters
> http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4296692&section=news
> 
> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has said it has scrapped its programme
> to allow U.S. troops and other Americans overseas to vote through the
> Internet because the system was so vulnerable to computer hackers it could
> cast doubt on the integrity of U.S. election results.
> 
> The Pentagon heeded the advice of cyber-security experts who urged in a
> January 21 report the program be abandoned because it was impossible to
> create a voting system with current personal computers and the Internet
> that would stop hackers or terrorists from tampering with election results.
> 
> The $22 million (15.24 million pounds) Secure Electronic Registration and
> Voting Experiment, or SERVE, program was supposed to allow 100,000 U.S.
> troops and civilians overseas to cast votes through the Internet during
> this presidential election year.

Ya gotta luv the yanks...22mil - poof, just like that.

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