Re: More on garbage [was Re: Public disclosure ...]

David Wagner wrote:

> Nick Maclaren wrote:
>
>>All you have to do is
>>to block the voting in 'domains' where your opponents will get more
>>support than you will, and - Bob's your uncle!
>
>
> eh? As I said, DoS does not affect the integrity of election outcomes.
> Those are only preliminary tallies. (Moreover, the DoS will be detected
> during the canvass procedure, if not earlier.)
>
>
>>Unfortunately, you cannot rely on your opponents using only attacks
>>that are ineffectual.
>
>
> Huh? I was asked for an example where a DoS on a component of the system
> is tolerable/survivable. I think that I have done so. I did not claim
> to do anything more than that.

I think he was talking about physical denial of access to the polling
booth. Jeb is President Bush's brother. A little off topic for a
computer newsgroup.

Andrew Swallow
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:43:00 2005