The Department of Defense is looking to put in place an electronic Internet-based voting system for absentee military personnel and overseas Amercans. All well and good, a solid rationale for the pilot, and kudos all around.
Of course, then there’s the company that DoD has chosen (via its consulting firm, Accenture) to secure this little application: VeriSign.
Yes, the same company that’s gotten rebukes from the FTC for “slamming” domain owners, and that recently came under intense fire for changing the way the Internet works, breaking any number of anti-spam and security tools, and essentially hijacking all unpurchased domains, will be in charge of the secure servers for the pilot program.
I guess if someone mistypes a candidate’s name, Veri$ign will be glad to suggest an alternative — or, failing that, offer to let you buy the candidate …
(via BoingBoing)
And Maybe the’ll Miro$shaft Acce$$ as well to make sure it’ll really work well.