Devonshire
1yr ago
Your link does not mention COVID.
Devonshire
1yr ago
a single zero day
This is not how crypto-voting systems work.
You get the series of numbers from the voting system and can run them in your own computer, or even by hand with pencil and paper, and verify that your vote was counted.
The entire point of crypto verification is that you are not relying on someone else's computer. The threat model is the other person actively trying to screw you over, so "someone loaded a zero-day onto the voting equipment" is not even relevant.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I am quite skeptical of crypto-voting systems for many reasons (particularly user education), but high-quality first-world security researchers will voluntarily throw massive amounts of resources for free at various implementations.
We can also come up with various attack scenarios and decide which ones to particularly defend against. There are lots of systems to choose from. Each individual implementation can be reviewed, tried in small mayoral elections first, and reviewed again.
If we had to do an E2E system for some reason, we could do it.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Marc Randazza does a bunch of first amendment lawyering, including for porn companies, and says this is a dumb scheme that would fail really fast.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I would love to hear recommendations for it. In my experience it is a "use once and then put away" game.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Putin might think that the West is not going to sanction him any more than it already has. And that the West will not invade/seize control of the nukes/de-nucelarize Russia because that means total war.
What is the appropriate escalation for the West for 1 nuke used against Ukraine? One nuke against Russia?
Devonshire
1yr ago
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Devonshire
1yr ago
This, particularly for the "load more comments" button.
Devonshire
1yr ago
If your entire career is being a performance athlete like A-Rod, yes. Otherwise I am quite skeptical.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Tip for married life: When your wife says "I just heard about this horrible thing!" you do not say "axxshually you are wrong and misinformed."
Devonshire
1yr ago
"Risk was higher than admitted" is a thing that happens in 50% of cases, and even more often if you accept any risk or even a transient rise in the scientific data.
Devonshire
1yr ago
There is a google classroom for some homework, but not everything makes it there. And studying for tests is difficult to manage. If we are fortunate enough to know ahead of time there will be a test, asking the kid what it covers or how it will be administered just gets blank looks.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Whoa, cool.
It is comments from all threads, which is neat. But can it be restricted to comments for one thread?
Devonshire
1yr ago
I'm sick of NFTs but if you think "ha ha right-click save-as" is a useful critique you have not engaged with the argument.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Telling someone to buy a stock because you will sell is market manipulation.
Telling someone to buy a stock because it would be funny is a different beast.
Devonshire
1yr ago
I'd like the option for the first batch of comments from a big thread to be either be width-first or depth-first.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Is there a tool for doing this? I do have a database of reddit posts, mostly as an exercise for myself, but I never ran it against my whole profile.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Typing deep in a thread, each time I type the screen moves down 1 pixel.
Devonshire
1yr ago
Is there any reason why one is called the fox and the other the hedgehog?
Devonshire
1yr ago
Can you usefully search reddit comments using google? I try to find my own stuff and it is incredibly difficult unless it was the main post.
Devonshire
1yr ago
single corrupt election official
You need multiple people. To stuff a ballot box in a precinct, you would need at least an accomplice stuffing the books, which are explicitly in the control of another person.
Devonshire
1yr ago
It would not help this problem but voters often move just on a pathos of "oh yeah we should clean things up."
Devonshire
1yr ago
It seems like bad-logistics was something that Putin could have known if he had bothered to check.
It is the lid I am talking about. The ones I have seen are not a solid piece of plastic (from the underside, at least, where I need it) and are full of seams and nooks and crannies.
Maybe it could be made with a peelable liner or something.
No, it is the math that works regardless of the security of the individual components.
If I send an encrypted message over an unsecured wire, and someone else shows up and says "oh but what if someone interferes with the unsecured wire?" they are missing the first part of understanding.
Each E2E system has its tradeoffs, but in general they are designed to absolutely detect if the people running the system deliberately messing with your vote. Detecting accidental messing with your vote is a necessary side-effect.
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