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Locking down e-voting systems is not so easy

Creating an impenetrable and robust e-voting system, according to two leading researchers in cryptography, is nowhere close to being created. A complicated problem, with global experts rushing to solve,...

Last ditch call to stop ABC mandatory login

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Privacy and security experts have called on the ABC to halt its switch to mandatory user accounts at the eleventh hour, warning that the public broadcaster has failed to...

Digital voting canned for upcoming NSW elections

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
New South Wales’ troubled digital voting system will not be used for the upcoming state and local government by-elections and needs “extensive reconfiguration and testing”  following tech glitches late...

Tech glitch compromised NSW council elections: report

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
At least a quarter of the total NSW council elections last year may have been impacted by the failure of the state’s digital voting system, according to a new...

Digitising NSW elections would be ‘easy’: Dominello

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The New South Wales government will look at digitising state elections, with its Minister for Digital Victor Dominello describing the switch to online voting as “easy”, despite experts warning...

Govt has another go at criminalising data re-identification

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will again attempt to pass legislation criminalising the illegitimate re-identification of public sector data sets, despite its attempt to do this five years ago stalling due...