What's the specific attack you're thinking of (e.g. malicious app in the store, chrome exploit, etc)? I 100% believe attacks at a similar scale to attacks on ballot boxes is possible.
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"Hi I'm John Smith from the Bernie Sanders campaign. If you'd like to support Bernie, please install this app that helps you find your polling place on Super Tuesday!" Imagine this on a robocall.
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Also works without the mobile component no? "E.g. Please send your mail in ballot to this address", seems not as bad, because we can take down the bad app.
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The mail in ballots come with addresses on them -- so you literally just drop them in any mailbox. Successful attacks there would be more like 'mailing out counterfeit ballots'. But that requires a locus of physical presence which is risky.
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That's just your opinion, and I don't agree. You're saying robocalling someone to install malware is trivial but robocalling someone to say the address needs to be amended is tricky. I don't think those are significantly different in levels of social engineering
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They're definitely not different in terms of social engineering. But one of them is a lot easier to defuse since the ballot tells you the deadline all over it. And the 'install an app' threat is just the first of many. Think of all those SMS vulnerabilities over the years!
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The most vulnerable people are running unpatched, old devices -- and in the case of many cheapo third party android vendors, seemingly security updates never arrive.
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Right, but the discussion is, is the scale that mobile voting can be disrupted greater than the scale that paper ballots can be disrupted? I think the scale is similar. There are vulnerable people that can be disrupted from the polling station too, paper is not infallible.
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It's not, but if you look at the effect of actual tampering with the process of voting, it does not seem to be happening at scale. Most of the ploys fail. The issues with polling places are a result of institutional racism or lack of support for civic engagement.
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I can't even begin to imagine what forces would go to work to stop/confuse people into voting if you said anybody could do it from a complex piece of hardware operated in the home with no oversight. Having a fight to reform voting laws just seems like a better use of effort.
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The point is, I don't know if mobile voting is a good solution to disenfranchisement - but if a study suggested it was, dismissing it because people who don't work on exploitation talk about the scale of disruption/fraud/incompetence being so much bigger than paper would be sad.
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+1. I’m legit confused by how easy/likely some make it sound (and to target, not get noticed, etc).
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