2007-01-29
Myths about physical seals
LLNL have a great information resource on physical seals.
I wish it had been around during the electronic voting debate in Ireland.
So many journalists and politicians believed the myth that physical seals are tamperproof.
It was an uphill struggle until the Commission on Electronic Voting took a look at them.
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