Avi Rubin Quotes

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Avi Rubin

Profession : Scientist

Birth : November 8, 1967

People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.

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Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

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In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly.

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The basic idea behind a paper trail is that you take one of these electronic systems and you augment it with a printer that prints out people's vote as they vote.

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My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

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It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

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If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.

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