Voatz, a mobile voting platform launched in 2016, was the subject of a reverse engineering project carried out with the aim of pinpointing security weaknesses. The researchers found that attackers could theoretically access information about users’ voting preferences and even modify or suppress their votes.

Since the beginning of the current coronavirus pandemic, many countries have sought to accelerate and streamline contact tracing via mobile applications. So just how great is the security threat posed by contact tracing applications?