Today I attended CyberDay 2015, where I delivered a lecture titled “Challenges in Securing IoT”.

Some of the lecture was devoted to discussing the issues mentioned in this post. Other issues were discussed as well.

A few days ago I gave a lecture about innovation and one topic that came up was the security of e-voting. It is widely accepted by the security community that e-voting cannot be made secure enough, and yet existing literature on the topic seems to lack high level discussion on the basis for this assumption.

Following is my opinion on why reliable fully digital e-voting cannot be accomplished given its threat and security models.

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