Anderson Ramos
Type of lecture: keynote
Language: EN
Held on 2010-07-10 11:30:00 (length: 0 min)
Location: cancelled
We are more than sorry to announce that our first keynote speaker, Anderson Ramos, will be unable to give his talk in Vienna this weekend on short notice for private reasons. We would like to wish both him and his family much luck and strength.
Below you can find the outline of his talk abstract:
Hacking Democracy - The first, biggest and scariest e-voting system ever: the Brazilian elections
During the now remote year of 1996, the Brazilian government was conducting one of the first tests ever using electronic voting systems, turning the country into the first one to have fully electronic voting elections by 2000. This system, still the biggest operational one with more than 80 million active voters, is celebrating one decade later in 2010. Bold pioneering decision or one of the craziest ones ever taken? At least from a security decision, it is probably the scariest (and probably the least democratic): proprietary code not universally available for independent scrutiny, empty press coverage plots with sentences like 'the system is totally secure because we never had any problems' proffered by the highest electoral legal authorities, are just two among many. But there's something about the simplicity of the system that, for many, is maintaining the general security of the platform. This presentation will provide a general overview about the security of the system and its problems, from what is publicly known.