[LINK] NSW evoting system for next state election

Rick Welykochy rick at vitendo.ca
Tue Apr 1 12:54:31 AEDT 2014


Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 12:06 PM 1/04/2014, Christopher Vance wrote:
>
>> The Scytl code is written in Java. When I worked on it, the VEC
>> implementation was using Red Hat Linux and Oracle.
> Yay, someone with at least some knowledge!
>
> Chris, does this mean the user must have Java installed on their
> computer? I can see this being a security and voter support nightmare.
>
If Java is indeed required on the client, be very concerned. The vulnerabilities
for that language keep cropping up.

Advice to all users browsing the Internet: disable Java. Just say no to it.

For the latest, search the web for "more vulnerabilities found in java".


rgds
rickw


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