Comments on: Estonia allows cellphone voting – Could this catch on elsewhere? http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/12/13/estonia-allows-cellphone-voting-could-this-catch-on-elsewhere/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tropp79 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/12/13/estonia-allows-cellphone-voting-could-this-catch-on-elsewhere/comment-page-1/#comment-152201 tropp79 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:56:20 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=10106#comment-152201 David, only your last vote would get counted, as it overrides previous ones. It's not the phone, it's the SIM that identifies you (ID PIN differs from SIM PIN, btw). Duplicating the authentication and encryption module on the SIM card (or our IDs) isn't quite as simple as photocopying some 20th-century driver's license. The security is quite good, and crypto is top-notch. Primary security issue with the system is that there's a theoretical possibility that some exceptionally gifted sysadmin may be able to connect your secret vote to your person, but that's about it. David, only your last vote would get counted, as it overrides previous ones. It’s not the phone, it’s the SIM that identifies you (ID PIN differs from SIM PIN, btw). Duplicating the authentication and encryption module on the SIM card (or our IDs) isn’t quite as simple as photocopying some 20th-century driver’s license. The security is quite good, and crypto is top-notch. Primary security issue with the system is that there’s a theoretical possibility that some exceptionally gifted sysadmin may be able to connect your secret vote to your person, but that’s about it.

]]> By: DavidB http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/12/13/estonia-allows-cellphone-voting-could-this-catch-on-elsewhere/comment-page-1/#comment-152176 DavidB Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:28:43 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=10106#comment-152176 Some of us CAN forget the liberal attempts to disenfranchise and cheat in 2000 and 2004 Dave. Will YOU ever give up that your darling LOST and no amount of black helicopter claims after the fact are going to change that? My god, Aussies get fined for not voting? And that's called freedom??? Hmmm, a key tenet of freedom and choice is the freedom to NOT make a choice! That's ridiculous to force people to vote. I have 3 cell phones, so I get to vote 3 times right? It would be trivial to obtain enough identity to get 3 "chips", if illegal aliens can obtain enough credentials to vote surely I can (via multiple identities) too. Oh, wait, we'll have a national ID card system that is fraud resistant and prevents dupicate ID's right? Some of us CAN forget the liberal attempts to disenfranchise and cheat in 2000 and 2004 Dave. Will YOU ever give up that your darling LOST and no amount of black helicopter claims after the fact are going to change that?

My god, Aussies get fined for not voting? And that’s called freedom??? Hmmm, a key tenet of freedom and choice is the freedom to NOT make a choice! That’s ridiculous to force people to vote.

I have 3 cell phones, so I get to vote 3 times right? It would be trivial to obtain enough identity to get 3 “chips”, if illegal aliens can obtain enough credentials to vote surely I can (via multiple identities) too. Oh, wait, we’ll have a national ID card system that is fraud resistant and prevents dupicate ID’s right?

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