Wireless
Wireless: Network connectivity using radio waves instead of wire connections.
Definition
Network connectivity using radio waves instead of wire connections. Wireless signals can be intercepted and, if not encrypted, deciphered.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
Connectivity using electro-magnetic waves instead of wire connections.
- Definition 3
Network connectivity using radio waves instead of wire connections. Wireless signals can be intercepted and, if not encrypted, deciphered. Election systems that use wireless connectivity must be tested for security and signal reliability.
- Definition 4
Communication performed without the use of elect rical wires between source and destination. Wireless systems include cellphones, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, UWB, RFID and even infrared (IrDA and UFIR) systems. Wireless systems often exhibit poor security properties in that it is easy to intercept or jam their signals and encryp tion may be weak or nonexi stent. It may also be possible to inject spurious signals (e.g. votes) with suitable equipment and mount a denial of service attack. Even with encrypted signals it may be possible by dictionary attack or other mechanism to infer the contents of communi cations (e.g. voter’s choices) without literally reading them. There seems to be no reason at a ll to use wireless in voting systems, and some states have made it flatly illegal: “A vote ta bulating system must: … (d) Not use wireless communications in any way.” Wash. Admi n. Code §434-335-040(3). Likewise Va. Code §24.2-625.2. Wireless devices are also forbidden in New York. N. Y. election Laws (consol.) §7-202(1)(t). Wireless has been proposed to connect voting machines to accessible audio headsets for the disabled, but one wonders what’s wrong with the vastly more secure traditional wired headset. Under the 2007 VVSG, ELECTRONIC DEVICES are not permitted to harbor wireless technology.