26 Quotes by Avi Rubin

In the car industry they have to build with safety in mind. Car makers couldn't get away with this. They're more concerned with the bottom line and profits, and that's upsetting.

I don't think vendors are going to build in privacy protections if there is no incentive for profit.

People’s computers are not getting more secure. They’re getting more infected with viruses. They’re getting more under the control of malware.

I don’t think with today’s technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

In any election, it’s important that the public perceives that the election is held fairly.

My position hasn’t changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

I’ve been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine – we just wouldn’t know it.

It’s the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.