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

Avi Rubin

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Avi Rubin
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: November 8
Engineer
University Professor
Manhattan
Kansas
Aviel David Rubin
Secure
Computer
Control
Getting
People
Infected
Viruses
Computers

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As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.
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I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.
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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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