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First of all, great news! I live in Switzerland, and this is really good to hear. To those who think that 150’000 Fr. compensation is too low — think of the pr
by atemerev 8y ago
First of all, great news! I live in Switzerland, and this is really good to hear.
To those who think that 150’000 Fr. compensation is too low — think of the prestige! Hacking the Swiss voting system, the only direct democracy in the world! No amount of money is equal to that.
- nostrebored 8y agoRight, because extolling political capital from one of the centers of global banking is definitely not more valuable than a CV blurb
- atemerev 8y agoThe Swiss are actually ready to shut down the e-voting system for good. This is the final “military excercise” test; if it will be able to stand the combined power of the finest hackers of the planet (which is doubtful), it might survive. But I don’t think so. This is a suicide letter for the system. At the very least, it will be DDoSed out of existence.
- folli 8y agoThis is still my favorite take on the eVoting topic: https://xkcd.com/2030/ https://xkcd.com/2030/
- TulliusCicero 8y agoReminds me of developers' attitudes towards software patents (similarly, near-universal consensus that they're a terrible idea).
- TulliusCicero 8y agoThere's lots of direct democracy at sub-national levels in various countries.