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> When asked about why a redacted audit or report from the auditors wasn’t released, Voatz co-founder and CEO Nimit Sawhney, who co-authored the white paper, ga
by nwah1 7y ago
> When asked about why a redacted audit or report from the auditors wasn’t released, Voatz co-founder and CEO Nimit Sawhney, who co-authored the white paper, gave multiple reasons. First, he pointed to a nondisclosure agreement with the auditors. Then, he stated that there was no way to share any more information about the audit without revealing proprietary information about the system. But one would expect a redacted report or even an abstract of the report for transparency’s sake, given the stakes of introducing a new system to our already rickety voting process. Depending on the secrecy of its system architecture is such a poor security mechanism that researchers have even coined a term for it: security by obscurity.
- nwah1 7y agoA private blockchain hosted only by a trusted party has absolutely zero purpose, even in theory. This whole experiment is a scam.
- i_am_nomad 7y agoThis is the same principle behind Nebula Genomics, and it’s surprising more people aren’t calling bullshit on it.
- trakout 7y agoIn the context of nascent tech like this, most people just don't know the right questions to ask, unfortunately. Perhaps in the near future we will be treated to a layman's explanation of the prevalent (and corrupt) usage of federated blockchains, 'exposed' in a Netflix doc. :)