Re: D.C. announces public test of Internet voting (AKA "digital vote by mail")

[Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not particularly proficient in the language they're using, Ruby,
so I wouldn't be the best person.  If you know some Ruby hackers
looking for glory, this could be their chance - there are many Ruby
gurus in CO I'm sure.

The surest way to spoil the election would be a big distributed denial
of service attack.  But it isn't clear if that would indeed be
permitted, and depending on their network it could easily take out
lots of innocent bystanders, like the rest of DC's computer systems.

-Neal

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:27:48AM -0600, Lou Puls wrote:
> Neal,
> 
> Thanks for the link to the announcement.  What short notice -- amazing!
> 
> Is there any chance YOU are applying for test credentials -- there is no-one
> more qualified from our region, I believe.
> 
> To me, this seems to be a rare opportunity for "White Hat" hacking-testing of
> the system, since any liability is intentionally waived, and the open-source
> environment precludes problems with unforeseen proprietary problems.
> 
> Lou Puls
> Museion Research
>  
> 
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>     The new trial overseas Internet voting system in D.C. is getting
>     underway (late), and is starting with a request for testing and review
>     of the source code from OSDV. 
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