13-02-2020 19:53 via theverge.com

Blockchain voting app is dangerously vulnerable, researchers say

New research from a team of MIT engineers has found an alarming string of vulnerabilitiesin a leading blockchain voting system called Voatz. After reverse-engineering Voatz’s Android app, the researchers concluded that an attacker who compromised a voter’s phone would able to observe, suppress, and alter votes nearly at will. Network attacks could also reveal where a given user was voting and potentially suppress votes in the process, the paper claims.
Most troubling, researchers say
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