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WORLD NEWS Saturday 16 February 2019
France's Le Pen boasts far-right power for EU elections

By ELAINE GANLEY ment, which Le Pen de-
NANTERRE, France (AP) — scribed as a think tank to
Where once she felt isolat- discuss larger issues — not
ed, French far-right leader an electoral advice plat-
Marine Le Pen feels she form — has yet to schedule
is now part of a crowd of an event, she said. Bannon
populist parties on the rise made a surprise appear-
around Europe that she ance at a major rally last
thinks can make new in- year of Le Pen's party and
roads in European elections she said they remain in
less than 100 days away — touch.
and start restructuring the Bannon has pointed to the
EU from within. Italian interior minister and
"Things have changed a League leader Matteo Sal-
lot," Le Pen said Friday at a vini — a longstanding ally
news conference. "We are of Le Pen — as the future of
no longer isolated at all on European politics.
the European scene." "Today, Europe has taken a
She noted that parties turn," Le Pen said, claiming
of the same ilk as her re- that "we can legitimately
named National Rally are envision today to change
now holding or sharing In this Jan. 13, 2019 file photo, French far-right leader Marine le Pen arrives for a campaign meet- Europe from inside, to mod-
power, from the League ing in Paris. ify the very nature of the
in Italy, which is part of the Associated Press European Union, because
government, to Austria with we consider ourselves pow-
its far-right chancellor, Se- French presidency in 2017 symbol of what she is fight- chief White House strategist erful enough."
bastian Kurz. when she often invoked his ing — a system that sacri- who played a central role Speaking to the Anglo-
She made no mention name. She lost by a land- fices national sovereignty, in Trump's 2016 campaign, American Press Associa-
of U.S. President Donald slide in the runoff to upstart borders and identity for a is looking to boost far-right tion, she predicted better
Trump whose victory fu- centrist Emmanuel Macron, globalized world. parties in Europe. However, results this year for her party
eled her own battle for the and derides him, still, as the Steve Bannon, the former his foundation, The Move- and for European allies.q

Hackers flock to hunt for cracks in Swiss e-voting system

By JAMEY KEATEN backed intruders bent on
Associated Press upending Western democ-
GENEVA (AP) — Swiss au- racies.
thorities are trumpeting the The Swiss want to get out
fact that more than 2,000 front on a system that
would-be hackers from could, one day, be mir-
around the world have rored or applied in other
taken up an invitation to try democracies.
to find holes in Switzerland's Under the arrangement
groundbreaking online vot- with e-voting system op-
ing system — and poten- erator Swiss Post, the four-
tially earn tens of thousands week test run — known as a
of francs (dollars) if they public intrusion test — starts
succeed. Feb. 24. Hackers and IT spe-
The Federal Chancellery cialists can earn anywhere
and Swiss regions, known from 100 francs to 50,000
as cantons, expressed sat- francs, depending on the
isfaction at the high re- type of flaws they find, if
sponse barely a week after their findings from "deliber-
launching a registration for ate attacks" are deemed
IT experts to help crack a worthy by an outside test
planned update to Switzer- organizer. A total of 150,000
land's 15-year-old e-voting francs is to be disbursed.
system. Among countries "Swiss Post believes that
in Europe, only Estonia has In this file photo dated Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, A Swiss voter casts his ballot at a polling station as only a transparent e-voting
a similar online voting pro- Swiss voters decide on a proposal to cap immigration to the Alpine republic, in Geneva, Switzer- solution can be successful
gram, a Swiss official said. land. in the long term," the invita-
As of Friday morning, more Associated Press tion to the challenge said
than 2,000 had been regis- on the site, onlinevote-pit.
tered. ties now believe they've shots. There are rules to the whizzes in Switzerland and ch. "By opening it up to an
The effort amounts to a developed "completely challenge, and Swiss Post beyond amounts to an un- intrusion test, it is expos-
coming-of-age of Swiss e- verifiable systems" that they ultimately is looking for such usually candid and trans- ing its system to the intel-
voting, or online voting, hope to introduce for the experts to help find un- parent approach to pre- ligence and skill of sophis-
systems: After over 200 trials first time this year. known vulnerabilities so the vent illegal, nefarious hack- ticated hackers to identify
and the rollout of e-voting But first, they have to be system can be strength- ing that has befuddled au- whether, when and how
already in 14 of Switzer- tested: Thus the appeal to ened. thorities in some countries, its e-voting system can be
land's 26 cantons, authori- hackers to give it their best The outreach to computer allegedly at times by state- compromised."q