MIT cybersecurity experts do not trust blockchain-based voting systems
“I haven't yet seen a blockchain system that I would trust with a county-fair jellybean count, much less a presidential election.” While certain parties in the United States continue to challenge the integrity of the election process, a group of researchers is advocating against using Internet-based and blockchain-based voting systems in the future.According to a Nov. 16 report from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, relying on blockchain voting technology is not a reliable means of promoting greater turnout....
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A think tank run by the European Parliament recently released a discussion paper on the use of bitcoin and blockchain technology in elections, analyzing the topic through the broader lens of electronic voting. Published on 29th September, the paper was authored by Phillip Nicholas Boucher, a researcher for the European Union Think Tank. Boucher wrote that adoption would represent a major shift in how trust is managed within the voting process, moving that kind of control "away from central actors", leading to "tech-enabled community consensus". The question, as the....
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2017 is here. There is tremendous optimism for the future, but there is also reason for tremendous concern. Cybersecurity was one of the biggest stories of 2016. Now everyone is looking for a better solution – and not a moment too soon. With our current Internet-based infrastructure, every database, every server and every asset is vulnerable. This is, in many ways, because the Internet was not built for security – cybersecurity describes protections added to a vulnerable system. And while many digital natives were raised on the understanding that cybersecurity is an integral part of life,....