finland was planning to move its election platform to amazon web services.

[reijomancer@defcon.social]

@parismarx @ChaosSpectre now there would be a useful bot.

[osma@mas.to]

There are plenty of data centers in Finland beyond Heztner [and Google, who have one and building another]. Meanwhile, this particular system doesn't need a data center. Just a few servers and their geographically isolated backups.

https://mas.to/@osma/115446994209551410

@atanasoff @parismarx

[laescude@mastodon.cr]

@parismarx on ICE?

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@parismarx now they only need to ban #ElectronicVoting and mandate #PaperBallouts instead…

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@osma @atanasoff @parismarx doesn't make it less vulnerable...

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/116288344713797128

[bweller@mstdn.social]

@parismarx yeah moving finland to a russian asset's platform would be stupid af

[jmkinen@mementomori.social]

@kkarhan Less vulnerable compared to what? There is no electronic voting in use here.

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@JMkinen havibg anythi g related to voting, ibcl. Voting Registry, someplace else is a risk…

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@bweller @parismarx indeed, I came here to say that the idea was stupid from the beginning, Orange or not

[jmkinen@mementomori.social]

@kkarhan Someplace else than where the ballots are? Surely we should have backups in Finnish servers that are not near eachother.

[tml@mementomori.social]

@parismarx Note that "election platform" is a fairly vague term. The actual voting is done with pencil and paper, and votes are counted manually by thousands of volunteers, representing each party, at local counting centres.

There is no electronic voting in Finland, and there are no short-term plans (inside ten years or so) to introduce such.