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Internet
voting system set for upcoming elections not secure, computer
experts say
In the January 2003 issue of Lab Notes, we reported on UC
Berkeley computer science professor David Wagner, a "cypherpunk" of
the finest order. In the last decade, he's cracked Netscape's
software security code that was designed to protect users' credit
card numbers, devised a method to eavesdrop on supposedly encrypted
conversations made with digital cellular telephones, and pointed
out the insecurity of today's popular wireless computer networks.
Now, Wagner
and three other prominent cyber-security researchers are
calling for a federally funded online absentee voting system
to be shut down before it's compromised.
"Internet
voting system set for upcoming elections not secure, computer
experts say" by Sarah Yang (Media Relations)
and Phil Sneiderman (The Johns Hopkins University)
Original
article: "Filling the Holes In Swiss Cheese Cybersecurity" (Lab
Notes, Jan/Feb 2003)
http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/labnotes/0103/wagner.html
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UC
Berkeley computer science professor David Wagner
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