On 29/04/18 09:46, David Boxall wrote:
NSW government has awarded electronic voting software contract for 2019
election. ...
There were some concerns expressed about the vulnerability of Scytl's
system to a man-in-the-middle attack in 2015:
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/604722/nsw-evoting-system-under-fire/
The NSW Electoral Commission responded that such an attack was unlikely
due to the "high level of technical expertise" required.
But since then we have seen a technically sophisticated group, perhaps
backed by a nation state, using technical means to try to influence an
election.
The NSW Electoral Commission said the risk was no higher than from a
"malicious postman replacing a postal vote". Perhaps this could be
dubbed an "Pochta Rossii" attack. ;-)
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