- nohillsideDid you bother to look at the source code? It's Electron-based, so the effort for supporting more than one OS isn't very high.
- Unfortunately(?), the original headline was just wrong. The DPOs did not impose a ban, the DPO community of Switzerland just recommended to move out of the cloud. This is not exactly news either, they have been leaning towards more restrictions for quite a while. But in most situations they can only issue recommendations, not binding rules.
- Indeed, we should be glad they don‘t charge us for each picture we take …
- The full part reads
Furthermore, we reserve the right to terminate the contractual relationship without notice for good cause. Such good cause is deemed to exist, among other reasons, if the Customer fails to meet its payment obligations or violates other important customer obligations. A further important reason which may result in us locking or terminating the Customer’s services or account without notice is if the Customer uses content that impairs the regular operating behavior or the security of our infrastructure or our product, or violates paragraphs 8.1. - 8.3. of these Terms and Conditions.
- The proposed eVoting solution will not do you much good then. It still relies on paper mail getting to you in time, and untampered with.
I understand the problem Swiss persons living abroad have with voting, but there are better ways to solve this than putting the whole vote at risk due to unsecurable Internet voting.
- Switzerland manages to hold state-wide votes four times a year, usually combined with local topics, with a paper/ballot based system quite well. Voting more often than every 4 or 5 years is not a reason to introduce eVoting.
But then, for grown-up democratic countries with a stable political system, hardly anything is a reason to introduce eVoting :-)
- No. But this is the same with ballot or mail votes in Switzerland, identity is not verified. So in theory you could fake paper voter cards already today, but it's difficult to scale this onto a useful level.
The verification system for the proposed eVoting system works with verification codes individual to a voter. So even if you and I vote YES on a certain topic we will have different verification codes.