There are two things I would like to touch on out of this chapter. I have had a trojan horse appear on my virus check before and all I knew was it needed to be gotten rid of. The amount of problems it can cause or lead to messed with my mind. I have checked sights that were questionable, now I know better. E-mails will not opened unless I know who sent them. Even then you run the risk that someone else is using another person's e-mail. Hopefully that won't be the case.
The second area that intrigued me was online voting. Are we thinking totally crazy? Voting online would open up more problems than the hanging chad problem in Florida.
Sure,you can come up with a few advantages but are they worth the risks? You could save money, votes could be counted quicker, and people who couldn't get to the polls could vote if they had a computer, but are these good enough reasons when you open many security risks.
A Web site hosting an election could be an obvious target for a DDoS attack(distribute denial of service). It would also be possible for an attacker to fool a user into thinking he was hooked up to a vote server when in actuallity he was connected to a phony server run by the attacker. The attacker could ask for credentials and then use them to vote on the real server. Things could get completely out of hand. The right hackers could control elections that would affect our nation.
Granted the voting system needs adjusting but online is not the answer.
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