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To: BugTraq
Subject: serious vulnerability present. all doomed. over.
Date: Apr 1 2003 10:11PM
Author: Security Experts, Liability Limited throwaway@dione.ids.pl
Synopsis and impact:
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A distributed denial of service condition is present in the election system in many polypartisan democratic countries. A group of determined but unskilled and not equipped low-income individuals, usually between 0.05% and 2% of overall population of the country, can cause serious disruptions or even a complete downfall of the democratic system and its institutions, and wreak havoc and destruction without using any force. This is considerably less than the majority of voters required in more conventional attacks, at least in this social group. The attack is generally difficult to prevent once occurs, since it is not possible to make immediate changes to election ordinances, especially once the process have started. Changes are often required to be passed at least one year before taking any effect. As such, patching the bug might take a considerable amount of time, perhaps also sufficient for the country to fall into chaos and oblivion, and for things of unspeakable horror to happen to all people like you and me.
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