On e-voting security, you might have a brilliant insight that starts: "It's simple, all you have to do is ..." Please stop. Really.
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Replying to @mattblaze
No, seriously. Stop. You are crossing the event horizon of the world's most over-constrained black hole of "oh, never mind then."
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Replying to @mattblaze
I don't want to discourage serious work in this space, but if it's "simple": 1 Someone thought of it already; 2 It doesn't work in practice
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Replying to @mattblaze
The amount of "it's simple" I hear from people is amazing. Literally a version of perpetual machines for the brainy crowd.
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Replying to @zeynep
common thread is refusal to even acknowledge that evoting systems solve some real problems in addition to creating risks.
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Replying to @mattblaze @zeynep
Usually when someone claims "X is simple" they're oblivious to 50% or more of the requirements.
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In some cases you can still make a simple solution to a hard problem with complex intersecting requirements...
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...but it's hard, it's non-obvious, and the proof that it works is complex. Opposite of armchair "I have a simple idea.."
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