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MIT Researchers Say Blockchain Won't Help Make Elections More Secure
Summary: Allegations of fraud during the United States Presidential Elections have renewed calls from the crypto community for the use of blockchain technology to secure the voting process, however computer security experts are countering that blockchain could introduce more vulnerabilities. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently released a report emphasizing that blockchain technology is not the ...
Allegations of fraud during the United States Presidential Elections have renewed calls from the crypto community for the use of blockchain technology to secure the voting process, however computer security experts are countering that blockchain could introduce more vulnerabilities.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently released a report emphasizing that blockchain technology is not the way towards a more secure election process. The report highlighted that all online voting systems are vulnerable to serious failures or attacks that are larger scale, harder to detect, and easier to execute than analogous attacks against paper-ballot based voting systems.
Blockchain technology would not address these problems and would introduce more vectors for attack, report authors wrote.
By Emily Mason
Tags: Blockchain Use Cases,Blockchain Voting,Massachusetts Institute of Technology,MIT
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