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Some reality from someone who is involved: E-voting was a poorly implemented transparency process to check a not totally terrible (and also, not correct) imple
by jeffrallen 5y ago
Some reality from someone who is involved:
E-voting was a poorly implemented transparency process to check a not totally terrible (and also, not correct) implementation of a pretty good design. Lessons were learned on the transparency side, and they are on HackerOne now, doing things approximately right. Security is hard and they will probably fail again, but they are failing according to industry standards now, at least. (I was a reviewer of the original system.)
e-ID was rejected by the voters as a gift of a service that should have been in government control to private industry for them to make profit on it. There was nothing technically terrible about the design for outsourcing eIDs to private industry, it was just a concept the voters found unacceptable. (I voted no along with a majority of my fellow citizens.)
- CaptainZapp 5y agoIt didn't really help that one of the prime candidate company to issue the eId couldn't get even basics, like cert management, straight. I'm quite thankful for Die Republik (slightly leftist daily internet "paper", which is ad free and subscription only) because I think they were quite instrumental in uncovering some of the shenanigans being pulled by those companies.