I read somewhere that "hackers don't break systems, they merely demonstrate that the system was broken all along". This is true for democracy, too.
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Turns out hacking -- both computer systems and political institutions -- is a very high ROI vector of attack. Cheap and potent. Because you are exploiting your opponent's preexisting hidden vulnerabilities (which are plenty), and entirely by-passing its strengths.
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And once you've discovered a cheap and potent vector of attack, and your opponent is slow to patch it, of course you are going to exploit it to its full potential. Democracies the world over should be on high alert for the next few years. It's not just 2020, it's not just the US
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Your enemies don't need to be a cabal of hyper-competent supermen in order to hijack your elections. They just need to play the role of nominally competent hackers. Because you've already given them a massive pile of critical vulnerabilities to play with
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So true!
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What are your thoughts on piracy of printed books on Amazon worldwide? Is is not a type of attack that destroys copyright laws?
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It's an unfixable system, I think. No security patches will help. The goal is to have accountable government and policies strongly correlated with citizen's preferences. I think we can imagine better mechanisms to do just that without relying on rationally uninformed voters
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Hack and blue team the voting machines 2020
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