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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.<\/p>\n

Of course, then there’s the company that DoD has chosen (via its consulting firm, Accenture) to secure this little application: VeriSign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, the same company <\/a>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.<\/p>\n

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 …<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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