[LINK] Pentagon dumps vulnerable Internet voting system

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Fri Feb 6 14:40:33 EST 2004


In message <1076044184.5015.99.camel at int.lannet.com.au>
on Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:09:45PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 15:47, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> > http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4296692&section=news
[...]
> > The $22 million (15.24 million pounds) Secure Electronic Registration and
> > Voting Experiment, or SERVE,
[...]
> Ya gotta luv the yanks...22mil - poof, just like that.

UK MoD scrapped a 130 million pound (!) computer system. Before it was
used. (At least they had the good sense to admit defeat??)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/33831.html
http://www.computing.co.uk/News/1147382
http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=201440&in_page_id=2




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