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But you trust them to keep your vote secret, you trust them to keep national secrets secret, etc. I get that this is a big single point of failure that would be

by j2kun 10y ago

But you trust them to keep your vote secret, you trust them to keep national secrets secret, etc. I get that this is a big single point of failure that would be really difficult to fix if it was leaked. But the general default trust in the government to not, e.g, leak your SSN or vote... if you don't have that then the whole conversation is a nonstarter.

lisper 10y ago
Actually, no, I generally do not trust the government to keep secrets. That is why I would be very upset if my ballot had my name on it. As for SSN's, they were never intended to be secret, and using them as an authenticator is a Really Bad Idea (not that that stops anyone). But anyone who wanted to know my SSN could find it easily. Defense secrets are a little different. It's not so much that I trust the government to keep them as that I believe that the government is incentivized to keep them because that advances the government's interests. But even then there are exceptions when the stakes are high, c.f. Ed Snowden.