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As a software engineer and a huge fan of technology in general, I think electronic voting machines are the devil. Digital information is too easy to alter. Good
by slashdev 3y ago
As a software engineer and a huge fan of technology in general, I think electronic voting machines are the devil. Digital information is too easy to alter. Good old-fashioned paper elections are a well vetted technology that we know how to use and can be implemented and audited well. Electronic voting, not so much. It's not just important to have a free election, it's important that everyone has faith that it was a free election. Because if people no longer believe in the process, democracy will die. So it has to be transparent, audited by neutral and external parties, and it has to not just be impossible to tamper with, it also has to make everyone believe that it is impossible.
I hope the will of the people prevails over the supreme court in Brazil eventually.
- leon_theremin 3y agoAll US CPUs are backdoored by Silicon Valley. Any data or computation can be changed, deleted or stolen. It uses radio, works even without Net access, including for BR voting machines. There will be no computing freedom until the silicon trojans embedded in all US designed CPUs are removed. If you want freedom, you will have to ensure that no unseen radiation is enabling remote control of your devices. Ask me anything about BadBIOS and hardware trojans.
- slashdev 3y agoExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Can you point me at it?
- Arnt 3y agoYou might be interested in this: https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/indian-election-machines https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/indian-election-machines One size does not fit all (threat models).